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Hong Kong Charges 7 People and 2 Companies Over Deadly Apartment Fire

The 25 charges include manslaughter and conspiracy. They are the first to emerge from a monthslong investigation into a blaze that killed 168 people.

© Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

The fire in the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in November was the worst Hong Kong had seen in generations.
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A Catholic Mayor Commissioned Statues of Saints. Residents Revolted.

The mayor of Quincy, Mass., is being sued over 10-foot statues of two Catholic saints that he wants to install in front of a new public safety complex.
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