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ford University for a time.
Police on Tuesday raided his house,
using a controlled explosion to blast
down the door. Neighbors recalled him
as a tall, thin young man who often
wore traditional Islamic dress and did
not talk much.
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‘We Can Use Peace’: Trump
and Pope Francis Meet
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, 2nd right, and Major General Ben Bathhurst, General
Officer Commanding London District, right, meet soldiers and police officers on deployment in the
Palace of Westminster, London, after Scotland Yard announced armed troops will be deployed to guard
“key locations” such as Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, the Palace of Westminster and embassies
Wednesday May 24, 2017. Security has been increased in reaction to Monday’s explosion in Manchester
which killed more than 20 .
UK Steps Up Military
Patrols, Probes Attacker’s
Libya Ties
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Brit-
ish police and intelligence agencies
worked Wednesday to piece together
the allegiances of the Manchester sui-
cide bomber and foil any new potential
threats, as the country’s law-and-order
chief said it’s “likely” he did not act
alone.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said
Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people and
wounded dozens at an Ariana Grande
concert Monday night in Manchester,
had been known to security forces “up
to a point.” Officials are examining his
trips to Libya.
Britain on Tuesday raised its threat
level from terrorism to “critical” amid
concerns that the 22-year-old Abedi
may have accomplices who are plan-
ning another attack. British soldiers
have been deployed in place of police
officers to guard high-profile sites such
as Buckingham Palace and Parliament.
Abedi was born in Britain to a Libyan
family, grew up in Manchester’s south-
ern suburbs and attended the local Sal-
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — President
Donald Trump and Pope Francis, two
leaders with contrasting styles and
differing worldviews, met at the Vati-
can on Wednesday, setting aside their
previous clashes to broadcast a tone
of peace for an audience around the
globe.
Trump, midway through a grueling
nine-day, maiden international jour-
ney, called upon the pontiff in a pri-
vate, 30-minute meeting laden with
religious symbolism and ancient proto-
col. The president, accompanied by his
wife and several aides, arrived at the
Vatican just after 8 a.m. local time. The
president greeted Francis in Sala del
Tronetto, the room of the little throne,
on the second floor of Apostolic Palace.
Upon completing their meeting, the
pope gave the president a medal featur-
ing an olive branch, a symbol of peace,
among other gifts.
“We can use peace,” the president re-
sponded.
The visit began with a handshake
after each man arrived, Trump in a
lengthy motorcade, Francis in a Ford
Focus. The president could be heard
thanking the pope and saying it was “a
great honor” to be there. They posed
for photographs and then sat down at
the papal desk, the pope unsmiling, as
their private meeting began.
Priest Among 14 Hostages
Taken in Siege of
Philippines City
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Muslim
extremists abducted a Catholic priest
and more than a dozen churchgoers
while laying siege to a southern Philip-
pine city overnight, burning buildings,
ambushing soldiers and hoisting flags
of the Islamic State group, officials said
Wednesday. President Rodrigo Dute-
rte declared martial law in the south-
ern third of the nation and warned he
would enforce it harshly.
The violence erupted Tuesday night
after the army raided the hideout of
Isnilon Hapilon, an Abu Sayyaf com-
mander who is on Washington’s list of
most-wanted terrorists with a reward
of up to $5 million for his capture. The
militants called for reinforcements
from an allied group, the Maute, and
some 50 gunmen managed to enter the
city of Marawi.
“We are in a state of emergency,”
Duterte said after landing in Manila
from a visit to Moscow, adding that
skirmishes were continuing. “I have a
serious problem in Mindanao and the
ISIS footprints are everywhere.”
He said he may declare martial law
elsewhere in the Philippines if mili-
tants expand their attacks.
Archbishop Socrates Villegas, pres-
ident of the Catholic Bishops Confer-
ence of the Philippines, and Marawi
Bishop Edwin de la Pena said the mili-
tants forced their way into the Marawi
Cathedral and seized a priest, 10 wor-
shippers and three church workers.
NATO Rolls Out the Red
Carpet, Buffs its Image for
Trump
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO is not only
rolling out the red carpet for U.S. Presi-
dent Donald Trump in Brussels Thurs-
day, but the military alliance — which
Trump has declared obsolete — has
been busy repackaging its image and
is ready to unveil a new headquarters
worth 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion).
In recent months, member nations
have strained to show they are ramp-
ing up defense
spending
as
Trump has de-
manded. They
agree
with
the chief of
the alliance’s
most powerful
member that
NATO can do
more to fight
terrorism, but
they say it can
be
achieved
with more of
the same; train-
ing and mento-
ring troops in
Afghanistan,
and equipping
local forces in
Iraq so they
can
better
fight the Islam-
ic State group
themselves.
“They’ll only
talk
about
what he cares
about, so re-
ally he should
come out of
this
meet-
ing feeling as
though NATO
responds
to
him,” said Kris-
tine Berzina,
NATO analyst
at the German
Marshall Fund
think tank. “At
least that’s the
hope here.”