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Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea, is among 26 world leaders who have accepted invitations to Moscow for events marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Prince Harry, 30, who is to finish his military service in June, will volunteer with a program that helps wounded servicemen, “while actively considering other longer-term employment opportunities,” said Kensington Palace.
Larry Miller, a lawmaker from Canada’s governing Conservative Party, apologized for saying on a radio show that women who wish to wear a face veil while swearing the oath of citizenship should “stay the hell where you came from.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic National Committee chief, will seek a seventh term in the House instead of running for the Senate seat now held by Florida’s Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a spokesman said.
Jemell Blackman of Westbury, N.Y., was arraigned on animal-abuse charges, accused of causing the death of his dog, Scotia, which was so hungry it ate wood and plastic and so cold its temperature didn’t register on a thermometer.
Monsignor Kevin Wallin, 63, a Catholic priest dubbed “Monsignor Meth” in some media reports who authorities say dealt pounds of methamphetamine and bought a sex shop to possibly launder his drug money, asked a federal judge for leniency when he is sentenced next week in Connecticut.
Myron Lee Kipp, 77, a Utah man charged with lewdness after sunbathing nude in his backyard, agreed to a plea deal that keeps his record clean as long as he wears a swimsuit.
Larry Coulter, the driver of a dump truck that crashed in western New York and became engulfed in flames, credited passing motorist Ed Brunner with saving his life by throwing stones from the spilled load to crack the windshield enough for Coulter to kick his way free.
Philip Wilson, 64, a Roman Catholic archbishop in Australia, said he would fight a charge accusing him of covering up for a pedophile priest during the 1970s.
Sarah Hekmati, the sister of a former U.S. Marine imprisoned in Iran on accusations of aiding a hostile country, meaning the U.S., said that her brother, Amir Hekmati, renounces his dual Iranian citizenship and vows to never return to Iran if he’s allowed to leave.