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Report: Cleveland Reaches Deal with U.S. Justice Department

Cleveland, the Ohio city where a white policeman was acquitted Saturday in the fatal shooting of two African Americans, has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department on policing practices, The New York Times reported.

The deal, which could be announced as early as Tuesday, follows the verdict that prompted mainly peaceful protests after 31-year-old patrolman Michael Brelo was found not guilty on two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the 2012 killing.

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Last Bodies Recovered after Colombia Mine Tragedy that Killed 15

Emergency workers have recovered the final bodies of people killed in a collapsed, unlicensed gold mine on an indigenous reservation in central Colombia, bringing the official toll to 15 dead, authorities said Monday.

"After 12 days of working around the clock... the bodies of the 15 miners who were trapped in the El Tunel gold mine when it was suddenly flooded... have now been recovered," said a statement from government disaster relief agency UNGRD, after the final two were brought out Monday.

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Morocco Jails Three for Homosexuality

Three Moroccan men accused of homosexuality have been sentenced to three years in jail each by a court in northeastern Morocco, a rights group said on Monday.

Homosexuality and sexual relations outside marriage are forbidden in the conservative North African nation. 

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Obama Praises 'Fallen Heroes,' Touts End of Mideast Wars

U.S. President Barack Obama paid a Memorial Day tribute to America's "fallen heroes" Monday, stressing the heavy burden of perennial wars and underscoring his decision to pull troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Echoing Abraham Lincoln's praise for those who offered the "last full measure of devotion," Obama praised "everyday heroes" who died in the "mountains of Korea, the jungles of Vietnam, the deserts of the Middle East" and in countless other conflagrations.

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Four Killed in Sectarian Clashes in South Pakistan

At least four people were killed and eight others were wounded on Monday when sectarian clashes broke out in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said.

"Three members of the Shiite Hazara tribe were killed by the unknown gunmen, while a Sunni man died in the wake of the firing by protesting Hazara youth," city police chief Abdul Razzak Cheema told AFP.

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U.S. Fighter Jets Scrambled for French Flight to NY

An Air France passenger jet flying from Paris to New York was escorted by two U.S. fighter planes for the last stretch of the trip Monday because of a bomb threat against the flight, the airline and U.S. officials said.

Hours after it landed and was searched, the FBI said no bomb had been found and it declared the Airbus plane clear, CNN reported.

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Biden Tries to Smooth Iraq Ties after Pentagon Outburst

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Monday sought to end an embarrassing rift between Washington and Baghdad after Pentagon boss Ash Carter blamed Iraqi forces for the fall of Ramadi.

The White House said Biden called Iraqi's prime minister Haider al-Abadi, just hours after the U.S. Defense Secretary's suggested the Islamic State group won control of the city because "Iraqi forces showed no will to fight."

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Libya Tribal Chiefs Meet in Cairo Peace Initiative

A four-day meeting of Libyan tribal leaders opened Monday in Egypt which is exploring ways to unite warring parties and bring peace to its oil-rich neighbor.

Those attending the conference at a Cairo hotel were members of tribes that back the internationally recognized government based in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk.

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4 Troops Dead in Indian Kashmir Gunbattles with Militants

Four soldiers were killed on Monday in two separate battles with suspected militants in Indian Kashmir, officials said, shortly after a mobile phone shop employee was left dead in another attack in the disputed region.

A military spokesman said two soldiers were killed in a firefight when suspected militants were found trying to cross from Pakistan into Tangdhar in India, 180 kilometers (110 miles) from the region's main city of Srinagar.

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Ukraine Agents Search Italian Bank Branches in 'Terror' Probe

Ukrainian security agents on Monday seized documents from the Kiev branches of Italy's UniCredit bank as part of an anti-terror investigation linked to individuals with accounts in the European giant.

A spokeswoman for Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) told Interfax the snap inspections were conducted "in order to halt possible operations aimed at financing terrorist organizations" in the separatist east.

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