U.S. TO ADD TO TROOPS IN POLAND

WASHINGTON» The United States will send 1,000 more troops to Poland as part of a growing security and economic partnership between the two countries, President Donald Trump said Wednesday. He and Polish President Andrzej Duda differed over Russia’s intentions toward the U.S. ally.

At a time of ongoing worries about Russian military activity, Duda said he wanted Russia to be a friend of Poland even as he recounted his country’s long history of conflict with Moscow.

“We would like Russia to be our friend, but unfortunately, Russia again is showing its very unkind, unpleasant imperial face,” Duda said.

Computer outages strike U.S. airlines about once a month.

WASHINGTON» The U.S. airline industry suffers about one technology outage per month, most of them serious enough to disrupt flights.

However, regulators don’t oversee airline information-technology systems, and outages aren’t covered by consumer protections for passengers.

The Government Accountability Office reported Wednesday that it counted 34 outages from 2015 through 2017, and 85 percent caused delays or cancellations.

5-year-old dies of Ebola as outbreak crosses Congo border.

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A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim in the current Ebola outbreak on Wednesday, while his 3-year-old brother and grandmother tested positive for the disease that has killed nearly 1,400 people in Congo.

The outbreak’s spread into Uganda prompted the World Health Organization to revisit whether the secondlargest Ebola epidemic in history should be declared a global health emergency. A WHO expert committee meets on Friday.

India plans to launch moon mission in July.

India will launch a lunar mission on July 15, attempting to become the fourth country to land on the moon and cementing its place among the world’s space faring nations.

The Chandrayaan-2 mission aims to deliver a rover to an elevated plain close to the uncharted lunar South Pole on Sept. 6 or 7 and investigate the surface for signs of water and potentially new sources of abundant energy.

Hundreds detained in Moscow protest over journalist’s case.

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Hundreds of people were detained Wednesday as they marched in the Russian capital to protest what they called police fabrications in the wake of the arrest of an investigative journalist on drug charges that later were dropped when the government admitted there was no evidence he committed a crime.

The mass arrests at the unauthorized rally provided a harsh coda to the elation of journalists and other supporters of Ivan Golunov a day after Russia’s interior minister announced the unprecedented move to drop the charges and seek punishment for the police officers involved.