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NEW YORK — Transportation Security Administration officers in New York bought a shirt for a shirtless boy who was travelling to Denver.

MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — Hameeda Danesh was locked away at age 13 and beaten daily for six months by uncles who abhorred the thought of her attending school.

BRUSSELS — British Prime Minister Theresa May said Thursday she is considering a European Union proposal that would keep Britain bound to the bloc's rules for more than two years after it leaves, and idea that angers her pro-Brexit critics in the U.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korean progressives on Thursday accused the government of caving into xenophobic sentiment by rejecting a plea for refugee status by hundreds of asylum seekers from war-ravaged Yemen whose arrival on a resort island

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders were set Thursday to push ahead with plans to boost co-operation with North African countries and beef up the bloc's borders in an effort to stop migrants entering Europe.

CALEMAR, Peru — Martin Vizcarra stepped down from a military helicopter into a small Peruvian jungle village where no president had ventured before.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Helicopters are dropping disinfectant on neighbourhoods in the earthquake- and tsunami-stricken city of Palu to reduce disease risks from the thousands of victims believed buried in obliterated communities, Indonesia's disaster a

ZACAPA, Guatemala — Sweaty, sunburned and exhausted, Jonathan Zuniga had been carrying his 1-year-old baby in his arms for five hours when help arrived unexpectedly from a local woman who offered him a used baby carriage.

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny was arrested Wednesday after a Texas grand jury indicted him, alleging he tampered with evidence in the sexual assault investigation of now-imprisoned gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.