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• A neighbor who saw smoke coming from the woman's home reported the fire. There was no immediate word on the cause.
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NCAI applauds Obama's visit to Indian Country
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The National Congress of American Indians is applauding President Barack Obama for fulfilling a promise to visit Indian Country.
• Obama is visiting the Standing Rock Reservation in the Dakotas to get a firsthand look at culture and also the problems there.
• The National Congress of American Indians says in a statement that having Obama visit Indian Country has been "a longtime priority." It says the president's visit builds on his administration's efforts to work closely with tribal nations.
• Obama is only the third sitting president to come into Indian Country in almost 80 years. In 2008, then-candidate Obama pledged to expand health services, improve education, combat methamphetamine dealers, promote economic development and improve housing on reservations.
• Some Standing Rock residents say many of those promises have yet to be met.
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AP News in Brief
Pro-Russian rebels shoot down military transport plane, killing all 49 aboard
• KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Pro-Russian separatists shot down a military transport plane Saturday in the country's restive east, killing all 49 service personnel on board, Ukrainian officials said.
• It was a bitter setback for Ukrainian forces, which have struggled to suppress an armed insurgency by foes of the new government.
• Nine crew and 40 troops were aboard the Il-76 when it went down early Saturday as it approached the airport at the city of Luhansk, the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said in a statement.
• That exceeded the loss of 12 soldiers including a general on May 29 when rebels shot down a troop helicopter near the eastern city of Slovyansk.
• The incident underlines questions about rebel access to military gear. Ukraine has accused Russia of permitting three tanks to cross the border where they were used by rebels. Russia denies supplying the separatists.
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