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GERMANY | Berlin — Germany is honoring a group of Nazi-era officers who tried to kill Adolf Hitler 70 years ago. In a somber ceremony Sunday, President Joachim Gauck called the attempted assassination on July 20, 1944, a “significant day in German history.” Hitler survived the bomb attack and was able to continue his military campaign to conquer Europe and eradicate the continent’s Jewish population for another year. Four officers were executed without trial. Some 200 supporters were killed later or driven to suicide. Gauck said the conspiracy showed the world that there was a “different Germany” than that of Hitler’s regime.

MEXICO | Mexico City — The owner of a group home raided last week amid charges of abuse and other mistreatment of children living there has been released from custody without charge, an official in the federal attorney general’s office said Sunday. The official said there was not enough evidence to warrant charges and added that GREECE | Thessaloniki — Police say a 59-year-old Greek man has died in an accident while climbing Mount Olympus, Greece’s highest mountain. The man was close to the 9,570-feet summit when he slipped and dropped more than 660 feet into a ravine. Authorities said there was intermittent fog high up the mountain. Volunteers from the nonprofit group Hellenic Rescue Team are trying to reach the body and bring it down the mountain. Several paths of varying technical difficulty lead to the summit, and the man was reportedly on the easiest of the routes, called “Kakoskala” — “Evil Stairway” in Greek. the 79-year-old owner, Rosa Verduzco, is too old to be put in jail. But the official also said the investigation was continuing. Two of the shelter’s employees also have been released, but six others are being held in prison after witnesses accused them of beatings, sexual abuse and deprivation of liberty, officials say.

NICARAGUA | Managua — Unidentified gunmen staged separate attacks on two buses carrying supporters of Nicaragua’s governing party home after a celebration of the Central American country’s 1979 revolution, killing five people and wounding 24, local authorities said Sunday. The national police and army provided no information on either attack reported in northern Nicaragua, and there was no indication of who staged the assaults. Matagalpa Mayor Zadrach Zeledon, a member of the governing Sandinista National Liberation Front, said the worst attack happened on the Pan American Highway around 1 a.m. Sunday in Las Calabazas.