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The Latest: Philippine president eases lockdown in capital

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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president has eased a coronavirus lockdown in the bustling capital and adjacent provinces to fight economic recession and hunger but still barred public gatherings this month, when many Roman Catholic summer religious festivals are held. After an alarming surge in infections that started in March started to ease, President Rodrigo Duterte announced in televised remarks…

Hip-hop’s Mally Mall gets prison in Vegas prostitution case

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press
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Hip-hop music figure Jamal “Mally Mall” Rashid has been sentenced in Las Vegas to 33 months in federal prison for owning and operating a prostitution business disguised as an escort enterprise. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the 45-year-old Rashid apologized to a judge on Thursday and said he quit criminal activity in 2014. That’s when the FBI raided his Las Vegas mansion and his concierge business near the Strip. Prosecutors say he reaped millions with his high-end prostitution business over 12 years. His attorneys say he accepted full responsibility and looks forward to returning to the music industry after prison.

‘Amazing’: Pilots, passenger uninjured after midair crash

By PATTY NIEBERG - Associated Press
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The pilot of an airplane that collided with another midair near Denver requested an emergency landing for engine failure, not knowing that his plane was nearly ripped in half. According to air traffic control audio, that pilot said his right engine had failed. Authorities say the collision between the twin-engine Fairchild Metroliner and the single-engine Cirrus SR22 happened Wednesday. Key Lime Air says its Metroliner’s tail section was substantially damaged, but that the pilot landed safely at Centennial Airport. Authorities say a pilot and one passenger were on the other plane that deployed a parachute and drifted safely down to a field. An Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputy said it was amazing that no one was injured. 

Beset by virus, Gaza’s hospitals now struggle with wounded

By ISABEL DEBRE and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press
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Just weeks ago, the Gaza Strip’s feeble health system was struggling to cope with a surge of coronavirus cases. Now hospitals in the crowded coastal enclave are confronting a different crisis: treating victims of airstrikes in the latest eruption of violence between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Relatives rushed the wounded by car to Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest. Exhausted doctors hurried from patient to patient, frantically bandaging wounds. Virus patients were moved from intensive care units to make way for those with shrapnel wounds and broken bones. The health care system in the territory of more than 2 million has been left vulnerable by years of conflict and a blockade.