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Armed student kills teacher, security guard in Moscow school before being taken into custody
• MOSCOW (AP) -- Moscow police say an armed teenager burst into his school and killed a security guard and a teacher before being taken into custody.
• Police say a police officer who responded to an alarm Monday was wounded. No injuries have been reported among the children who were in the school at the time.
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• Man says he ate fish, birds and turtles as he drifted for 13 months across the Pacific Ocean
• WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- It's a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands some 5,500 miles (8,800 kilometers) away.
• But that's the story a man identifying himself as 37-year-old Jose Salvador Alvarenga told the U.S. ambassador in the Marshall Islands and the nation's officials during a 30-minute meeting Monday before he was taken to a local hospital for monitoring. Alvarenga washed ashore on the tiny atoll of Ebon in the Pacific Ocean last week before being taken to the capital, Majuro, on Monday.
• "It's hard for me to imagine someone surviving 13 months at sea," said Ambassador Tom Armbruster in Majuro. "But it's also hard to imagine how someone might arrive on Ebon out of the blue. Certainly this guy has had an ordeal, and has been at sea for some time."
• Other officials were reacting cautiously to the Spanish-speaking man's story while they try to piece together more information. If true, the man's ordeal would rank among the greatest tales ever of survival at sea.
• Armbruster said the soft-spoken man complained of joint pain Monday and had a limp but was able to walk. He had long hair and a beard, the ambassador said, and rather than appearing emaciated he looked puffy in places, including around his ankles. Otherwise, he added, Alvarenga seemed in reasonable health.
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Culture tours designed to win Cuban hearts and minds also changing American views on US policy
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