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BRUSSELS (AP) — The police chief in the Belgian city where a prison inmate on 48-hour leave grabbed the service weapons of two officers and then fatally shot them and a bystander has identified the slain officers, one of whom had twin daughters now orphaned. Liege Police Chief Christian Beaupere named the two female officers…

By RAF CASERT and SYLVAIN PLAZY , Associated Press LIEGE, Belgium (AP) — A knife-wielding man stabbed two police officers Tuesday in the Belgian city of Liege, stole their weapons and shot them and a bystander dead in an attack that prosecutors fear could be terror-related. The attacker, who was later killed by police, was…

North Korea (AP) A U.S. team was in North Korea to plan a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to President Donald Trump, raising expectations that the on-off-on meeting would indeed take place. Both the State Department and South Korea's Foreign Ministry said the nations' officials have been engaged in talks at…

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Forecasters say Subtropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2018 hurricane season, has recently turned more north-northwestward with no change in strength as it lumbers toward the northern Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Alberto was centered at 5 p.m. EDT Sunday afternoon about 165…

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press In this image provided by the Holt family, Joshua Holt poses for a photo with his wife Thamara and her daughter, at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 26, 2018. Jailed in Venezuela on weapons charges nearly two years ago, Holt…