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More whales aground in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A new pod of 240 whales swam aground at a remote New Zealand beach on Saturday just hours after weary volunteers managed to refloat a different group of whales following an earlier mass stranding.
In total, more than 650 pilot whales have beached themselves along a 3-mile stretch of coastline over two days on Farewell Spit at the tip of the South Island. About 335 of the whales are dead, 220 remain stranded, and 100 are back at sea.
Volunteers are planning to return Sunday to help refloat as many healthy whales as they can.
Poles protest plans to expand Warsaw
WARSAW, Poland Hundreds of protesters marched in downtown Warsaw on Saturday against the ruling party’s plan to enlarge the Polish capital by incorporating 32 neighboring municipalities.
The ruling populist Law and Justice party says the move will help the neighborhoods develop by linking them closer with the capital.
Opponents say the move will deprive local governments of decisionmaking powers but is chiefly designed to help the ruling party win control of Warsaw in the 2018 local election.
Yale drops slavery proponent from name
NEW HAVEN, Conn. The trustees of Yale University announced Saturday they will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19thcentury alumnus who was an ardent supporter of slavery.
The university said it is renaming Calhoun College after computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral.
7 killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - An Afghan official says at least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked Afghan soldiers in southern Helmand province.
Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said Saturday that 22 others were wounded in the attack, which took place in the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
French youths clash with police
PARIS - A peaceful demonstration protesting the alleged rape of a black youth by police degenerated, with small groups setting at least one vehicle afire and throwing projectiles at police in a Paris suburb. Officers responded with tear gas.
Hundreds demonstrated Saturday in the northeast Paris suburb of Bobigny, calling for justice for the 22-year-old man arrested Feb. 2 in AulnaySous-Bois during a ID check by four police officers.
The young man — who is still hospitalized — says he was sodomized with a police baton.
One officer was charged with aggravated rape and three others with aggravated assault.