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Trump's delayed U.K. visit set for July

President Donald Trump will travel to Britain in July for a working visit, the office of British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Thursday, making good on an invitation delayed in part by the threat of protests and unrest in London.

The trip will include talks with British leaders but will be a lower-key working visit and not a full state visit, a spokesman for Downing Street said.

"The President of the United States will visit the U.K. on July 13th. He will hold bilateral talks with the Prime Minister during his visit. Further details will be set out in due course," the spokesman said in a statement.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said it was "fantastic news" that Trump would "at last come to Britain."

Trump and May had said at their last meeting, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, that the visit would occur soon. The two leaders do not have much of a rapport, although Trump said in Davos that the perception of a poor relationship is incorrect.

10 aid workers disappear in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan -- Ten aid workers have disappeared in civil war-torn South Sudan, days after another group of humanitarian workers was abducted by gunmen, the United Nations said Thursday.

The statement said three U.N. employees and seven aid workers, all of them South Sudanese, disappeared early Wednesday when their convoy driving from Yei town to Tore in Central Equatoria vanished.

The aid workers are with South Sudanese Development Organization, ACROSS, Plan International and Action Africa Help.

The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan, Alain Noudehou, condemned the latest attack against colleagues. This is the third time aid workers have been held by armed groups in the past six months alone, the statement said.

Seven local aid workers seized by opposition forces earlier this month in the same area were later freed. Two other aid workers were killed this month in Unity state.

9 Israeli hikers die in floods at Dead Sea

JERUSALEM -- Flash floods killed nine Israeli students who were hiking Thursday south of the Dead Sea, Israel's rescue service said.

All the casualties were 18 years old. Israeli media outlets said eight of the fatalities were female and the other a male. Police said another hiker is still missing.

Earlier, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 25 students in a pre-army course were "caught off guard" and some were "washed away" by heavy rains while they were hiking in the area.

Rosenfeld said 15 hikers were rescued.

President Reuven Rivlin said on Twitter: "The state of Israel is mourning the loss of young promising lives in the heavy disaster." He said Israel "embraces" the grieving families and wished the injured a speedy recovery.

The downpour caused parts of Israel's security barrier with the West Bank to collapse, Rosenfeld also said.

Police and army helicopters were deployed to search for the missing member of the group. But search operations were suspended by nightfall until the morning because of harsh conditions, police said.

5 men's bodies found in car in Cancun

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican prosecutors said they are investigating the identities of five men found dead and stuffed into a car in the resort city of Cancun.

The prosecutor's office in the state of Quintana Roo said the bodies were found early Wednesday but have not yet been identified.

The latest case comes as violence and drug-gang killings rise in the once tranquil city.

On Tuesday, prosecutors announced the arrest of three Cancun police officers in the kidnapping of four Colombian citizens.

An increasing number of Colombians have been involved in loan-sharking and other activities in Mexico that make them vulnerable to extortion or kidnapping.

Last week, gunmen on water scooters also shot at a roving vendor on a beach in Cancun's hotel zone. Nobody was wounded.

A Section on 04/27/2018

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