3 bodies found in sea off Florida Keys

3 bodies found in sea off Florida Keys

ISLAMORADA, Fla.

Three bodies have been found in the sea about 23 miles southeast of the Florida Keys.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday said it received a report about 10:45 a.m. of a person in the water off Islamorada. An airplane later found a body, and a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission aircraft located two others at 2:28 p.m.

The Coast Guard says crews are searching the area for any other bodies or survivors.

Tens of thousands protest same-sex marriage in Mexico

MEXICO CITY

Tens of thousands of people marched through Mexico City on Saturday in opposition to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s push to legalize same-sex marriage.

Organizers of the National Front for the Family estimated at least 215,000 people participated, and while that number could not be immediately confirmed, it was clearly one of the largest protest marches in Mexico in recent years.

“We are not against anybody’s [sexual] identity,” said Abraham Ledesma, an evangelical pastor who traveled from the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, to participate in Saturday’s march. “What we are against is the government imposition ... of trying to impose gender ideology in education. As religious leaders, we don’t want to be forced to marry same-sex couples and call it marriage.”

Syrian troops advance in Aleppo

BEIRUT

Syrian troops captured a rebel-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city after what residents described as the heaviest air bombardment of the 5 1/2-year civil war.

The U.N., meanwhile, said that nearly 2 million people in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and onetime commercial center, are without running water after the escalation in fighting over the past few days.

Government forces captured the rebel-held Palestinian refugee camp of Handarat as airstrikes pounded rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, killing 52 people, including 11 children and six women, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Multistate E. coli outbreak sickens 7

ATLANTA

The Centers for Disease Control says a multistate outbreak of E. coli has sickened seven people, sending five to the hospital.

The CDC said Saturday that the outbreak of E. coli, which can cause intestinal illnesses, likely is linked to beef products from Adams Farms Slaughterhouse in Athol, Mass.

People from 1 year old to 74 years old have become sick. They’re from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. No deaths have been reported.

The CDC says five people who were interviewed said they’d eaten ground beef in the week before getting sick and that tests conducted in Connecticut on leftover ground beef from an ill person’s home and a restaurant found E. coli.

Triple suicide attack kills 11 in Iraq

BAGHDAD

A triple suicide bombing against a security check point north of Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 11 members of the security forces, a police officer said.

The spokesman for the Salahuddin province police force, Col. Mohammed al-Jabouri, said three militants rammed their explosives-laden vehicles early Saturday morning into the main check point near the town of al-Salam at the province’s northern entrance.

Associated Press