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Florida
Feds probe Amazon cargo jet crash
MIAMI -- The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van carrying seven people from a cleaning company, and an SUV hit outside of airport property, National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said Monday.
Homendy called the scene of Sunday's crash "utter devastation." She didn't detail how many people were in the SUV or where the dead were located.
Illinois
Mom who killed kid followed Clancy
An Illinois woman charged with killing her 2-year-old son had been closely following the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy and was texting friends about the case just hours before her son was found dead, prosecutors said.
Corie Walsh, 40, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after her son, Barrett, was found dead in the basement of the family's suburban Chicago home on Sept. 1, according to court records obtained by NBC Chicago.
District of Columbia
Death row inmate seeks DNA evidence
WASHINGTON -- Attorneys asked the Supreme Court Monday to stay the execution of a Florida death row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for the 1996 kidnapping and strangulation of a man who was found nude and emasculated.
Daniel Conahan Jr., 72, was sentenced to death for the April 1996 killing of Richard Montgomery.
World
Iran
Country ups gas prices for consumers
TEHRAN -- Iran early Tuesday introduced a higher price for its heaviest users of gasoline, state media reported, in the latest economic pinch caused by months of war. It's the second such hike since December.
Such gas price increases can be sensitive and contribute to inflation. An increase in 2019 sparked nationwide protests and a crackdown that reportedly killed more than 300 people.
United Kingdom
Gov't condemns anti-migrant protests
LONDON -- The British government on Monday condemned the "intimidating and thuggish behavior" of anti-immigrant demonstrators who converged on a port in southern England where migrants were brought ashore after crossing the English Channel.
Hundreds of protesters, many dressed in dark clothing and wearing masks, faced off with police in Portsmouth late Sunday to prevent lifeboats from bringing the migrants to land.
Egypt
Saudi Arabia accused of prison strike
CAIRO -- Houthi rebels in Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of striking a prison on Monday in the country's north, killing seven, including a child, as tensions escalate between the Iran-backed group and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces.
The strike on the Central Corrective Facility in the strategic city of Hazm in Jawf province also wounded at least seven people, including a woman, said Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry.