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Crews from the Phoenix Fire Department have returned from helping local authorities search for a man who fell into a sinkhole and was swept away in a storm drain. The incident happened last Monday when a large sinkhole opened up in Hermosillo, Mexico, and the man was swallowed up by it and carried away by the underground water currents. Phoenix, a sister city to Hermosillo, sent technical advisers from the Phoenix Fire Department to help with the rescue operation on Friday morning, according to ABC Phoenix affiliate station KNXV.

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:57:00 -0400

Milan's mayor is asking U.S. authorities to apologize for a World War II bombing raid that killed 184 elementary school children. The news agency ANSA said Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala made the request following a Mass marking the 75th anniversary of the Gorla massacre, named for the quarter in the city that was struck. Sala said "I think it's necessary that the American government apologizes, knowing that we are here to forgive." He said he would formalize the request with the U.S. consul.

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:56:14 -0400

Bei Bei, one of three giant pandas at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, is scheduled to leave the nation's capital on Tuesday, Nov. 19 to live in China, zoo officials said Friday. The expected move is part of an agreement with the China Wildlife Conservation Association, which dictates that any giant panda cub born at a U.S. zoo be sent to a breeding program in China after their fourth birthday.

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:48:00 -0400

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he never saw the kind of quid pro quo that acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney referred to on Thursday with regard to the decision-making process he was involved in. "The conversation was always around what were the strategic implications," Pompeo said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:32:29 -0400

The European Union needs looser budgetary policies and an overhaul of its fiscal rulebook, the bloc's designated economics commissioner said in an article published on Sunday. Writing in Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, Paolo Gentiloni said that while the EU's deficit and debt rules must not be ignored, they needed to be "reviewed and updated". "It's time for countries which have fiscal space to use it, in an overall context of less restrictive budgetary policies," Gentiloni, due to replace Pierre Moscovici as economic and financial affairs commissioner on Nov. 1, said.

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:24:09 -0400