Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a “big puff of dust.”

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have arrested a man wanted for murdering four members of a family in the Czech Republic, Czech police said on Friday. The man, identified by police as Kevin Dahlgren, has been searched for since four bodies were found in a family house in the city of Brno, 200 km southeast of Prague, on Wednesday evening. “Kevin Dahlgren, charged with quadruple murder, was arrested last night,” after landing in Washington, regional police chief Leos Trzil said on Czech Television. News website www.idnes.cz said Dahlgren, 20, had flown to the United States from Vienna. …

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LONDON (Reuters) – A top Federal Reserve official said on Friday U.S. inflation would have to pick up before he voted to scale back monetary policy stimulus and that this was unlikely to happen in the coming month. “Before I would be in favor of tapering I would like to see some reassurance that inflation was going to move back towards target,” St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said in a CNBC interview. “I am concerned about this inflation number and we are only a little ways out from the June meeting so I don't quite see how that is going to turn around in a few weeks. …

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PARIS (AP) — France’s finance minister says the government is no longer planning to cap executives’ salaries in the private sector, amid concerns it is antagonizing the big businesses needed to reinvigorate the economy.

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BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares traded erratically Friday but European markets found their footing, a day after global stocks were routed by unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing and fears the Federal Reserve will start withdrawing its monetary stimulus.

Read more here: World stocks erratic a day after big sell-off

ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi’s figure looms large over Rome’s mayoral elections this weekend even though the former premier isn’t among the 19 candidates running.

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PRAGUE (AP) — An American man accused of killing a family of four in the Czech Republic has been arrested in the United States, police said Friday.

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president has removed his top military commander and put him in a civilian role in a shuffle apparently prompted by an ongoing row over a rumored plan for President Yoweri Museveni to have his son succeed him.

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran denied on Friday that it had forces in Syria supporting President Bashar al-Assad, one day after foreign backers of his rebel foes demanded Tehran withdraw its fighters from Syrian territory. “The true enemies of Syria make up these accusations to provoke the people of this country,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi said, quoted by Iranian state television. (Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian; Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver.

Read more here: Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage