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Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy icon and chairman of her National League for Democracy party in Burma, will visit China for five days next week at the invitation of China's Communist Party for an interparty exchange, China's Foreign Ministry announced.

Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who has expressed fear that migration will undermine Europe's Christian identity, told Egypt's visiting president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, that he nonetheless respects Islam "as one of the great intellectual and spiritual creations of humanity."

Jahanzeb Malik, 33, a Pakistani man living in Canada who is accused of plotting to bomb the U.S. Consulate and other buildings in Toronto, will be deported because he is a security threat, Canada's immigration board said.

Chad Beach, a Tennessee man traveling with two co-workers, stopped at a convenience store in Raleigh, N.C., and bought two $5 Mega Bucks tickets, and wound up with a $100,000 winning ticket.

Bill Martin, the sheriff of Bourbon County in southeast Kansas, has been researching options for the Thompson submachine gun the state's governor issued to the county in 1933 as a way to defend against gangsters, saying other sheriffs had sold their Tommy guns to buy things like patrol rifles.

Christian Titman, 18, a member of the Pit River Tribe, wore an eagle feather that he considers sacred to his high school graduation ceremony after resolving a court fight with a California school district.

Leif Dasco, 31, who police in Waveland, Miss., say fought with officers responding to a gunshot report, punching one officer in the face and scuffling with two others in a nearby ditch, was arrested on felony assault and other charges.

George Cross, 40, who police say was spotted outside a Lynn, Mass., elementary school dressed as a Star Wars stormtrooper, complete with fake gun, pleaded innocent to disturbing a school and loitering.

Patrick Lynn Waits, 45, who police say walked into an unlocked home in Hobbs, N.M., stole car keys and surprised a resident who found him baking a potato and raking leaves, was arrested on burglary and unlawful entry charges.

Leslie Wright, 35, a former Buffalo Trace Distillery guard, pleaded guilty to aiding a Kentucky bourbon theft ring that investigators say sold thousands of dollars of bourbon illegally.

A Section on 06/06/2015

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