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ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia store has had 20 right-foot shoes stolen over the course of three break-ins this year.

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders agreed Thursday to pursue the co-operation of countries in North Africa and to beef up the bloc's external borders to stop large numbers of migrants from entering Europe.

HOUSTON — Environmental groups filed another lawsuit Thursday challenging the Trump administration's use of waivers to speed up construction of a border wall, this time in Texas.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda is at "big risk" of the spread of a deadly Ebola virus outbreak from neighbouring Congo, a senior health official said Thursday, even as he said the situation is "being handled well" there.

PHILADELPHIA — A toddler's caregiver was charged with murder in the suffocation death of the baby whose body was found partially buried in a public park with the top of her head exposed, police said Thursday.

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin hailed new missiles in Russia's military arsenals but emphasized Thursday that the country would only use its nuclear weapons in response to an incoming missile attack.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle.

MOSCOW — The Russian military says one of its training jets has crashed and two pilots are missing. The Defence Ministry said the L-39 aircraft went down Thursday during a regular training over the Sea of Azov.

MADRID — Spanish police have arrested a former Venezuelan official and an exiled opposition leader's relative and seized more than 115 properties in a money-laundering investigation into a ring that allegedly bought real estate in Spain with illicit

TORRINGTON, Conn. — A Connecticut restaurant accused of serving alcohol to the wife of ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman before she was killed in a car crash has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of an 87-year-old man who also died in the wreck.