In the news

• Jeremiah Heaton of Abingdon, Va., journeyed to the border of Egypt and Sudan and declared an unclaimed 800-square-mile patch of arid desert the Kingdom of North Sudan after his then-6-year-old daughter Emily asked if she could be a real princess.

• Pope Francis led tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square in unannounced, silent prayer for an end to the warfare in the Mideast, calling for insistent prayers for peace in the Holy Land during his Sunday appearance at the Vatican.

• Uli Clef, a snorkeler from Munich, Germany, was among the nearly 500 divers and snorkelers who took a dip in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday for an annual four-hour underwater music festival.

• Virginie Wegner, a spokesman for police in Frankfurt, Germany, said an anti-Israel protester was allowed to climb inside a police car and shout slogans including "child murderer Israel" through a megaphone because he had offered to calm down a protest that had turned violent.

• Linda Hallmark, vice president of the Henderson County Historical and Genealogical Society, said the group has raised only $700 to put up a marker dedicated to country music entertainer Louis "Grandpa" Jones at his western Kentucky birthplace.

• Will Kerr, assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, praised the "responsible behavior" of those involved in the annual Protestant march commemorating the 17th-century victory of King William of Orange against James II.

• Mike Eman, the prime minister of Aruba, and several legislators launched a hunger strike to protest what they say is meddling by the Dutch government in local financial affairs.

• Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, partly blamed unrest in the Middle East on President Barack Obama, saying Obama has not spoken forcefully on Israel's behalf.

• Anthony Cumia, a talk show host on Sirius XM radio, said he won't apologize for what SiriusXM called a hate-filled Twitter rant, which he was fired for, about a woman Cumia said punched him in the face on a New York street.

• Trung Le, a suspect in a gunfight in New Orleans that killed one person and injured three, was transferred from a Gulfport, Miss., jail to New Orleans after Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves signed a document to have Le extradited.

A Section on 07/14/2014

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