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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Yemenite Jews on Monday rejected the results of an official inquiry into the disappearances of more than 1,000 children who became separated from their parents during their tumultuous immigration a half-century ago.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Two churches were hit by bomb blasts in the Indonesian capital on Sunday, witnesses said, including one where Mass was being celebrated. At least 59 people were hurt, including a man who lost a leg.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Two churches were hit by bomb blasts in the Indonesian capital on Sunday, witnesses said, including one where Mass was being celebrated. At least 59 people were hurt, including a man who lost a leg.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Although police said they fired only rubber bullets to halt a massive pro-democracy protest in the streets of the capital, a senior medical investigator said Friday one of the two dead was killed by live ammunition.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Western diplomats will be allowed to visit eight foreign aid workers jailed for propagating Christianity in Afghanistan, a nation ruled mostly by the Taliban militia, which espouses a strict version of Islam.

CHICAGO (AP) - An elevated train struck another one during morning rush hour Friday just north of the city's downtown Loop, injuring more than 100 people. None of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.

TOKYO (AP) - Tokyo stocks plunged and the dollar was sharply lower against the yen early Wednesday as trading began cautiously in Japan hours after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.

LOWELL, Ind. (AP) - A man armed with a sawed-off shotgun entered a bank and took nine people hostage Tuesday morning before surrendering about four hours later. No one was injured, police said.

Louisiana United Methodists have rejected a proposal that would have required members of the church to renounce racism, adultery, and both heterosexual and homosexual sex outside marriage.

White House officials said this week that President Joe Biden will be maintaining the Taliban's Aug. 31 deadline for evacuating Americans from Afghanistan.

A Christian ministry, God Behind Bars, recently shared a video showing inmates inside a maximum-security prison worshiping and praising God.