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Thomas Menino, the 70-year-old mayor of Boston, will undergo surgery on an enlarged prostate Friday, the latest in a series of health problems he’s faced, including a bone fracture and a serious respiratory infection.

Irving Mann, an 88-yearold World War II veteran from Rochester, N.Y., who landed in Normandy on D-Day, recently received his 90th Infantry dog tag in the mail after Sophie LaFollie found it in a barley field near Rethel, France.

Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, represented the Clinton Global Initiative in Burma at a ceremony for Procter & Gamble’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water initiative, which provides water purification packets to areas with unsafe water supplies.

Jeff Burkhart, a city councilman in Clarksville, Tenn., woke up, realized he was having a heart attack and drove himself to the hospital without waking his wife or family, telling The Leaf-Chronicle after heartstent surgery that he was thankful to catch the heart attack fast enough.

Joe Biden, the vice president, said in his first visit to Colombia in more than a decade that he’s pleased security concerns can now take a back seat to trade and economic matters in talks with the country, praising President Juan Manuel Santos for helping lead Latin America toward a “middle-class, democratic and secure” future.

Maciej Grajek, a surgeon who operated May 15 on Poland’s first face-transplant patient, said the 33-year-old man is already practicing swallowing and making sounds.

Porfirio Lobo, the president of Honduras, said he has offered to help Roman Catholic Bishop Romulo Emiliani in his efforts to arrange a truce between the Mara Salavatrucha and 18th Street gangs, the two largest and most violent gangs in the country, which has one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

Amos Oz, an Israeli author who has been said to be among the candidates for the Nobel Prize for literature in recent years, won the Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic, which includes $10,000 and is awarded to authors whose works “appeal to readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 05/28/2013

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