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Cuba releases details about latest mystery health incidents; NEWS BRIEFING; Staff and news services; Salmonella sickens 60 in five Midwestern states, officials say; Putin says he’s ready to meet Trump, praises remark on G-7; 3,000 protesters demonstrate against corruption in Romania; Light plane crash kills four in southern Wisconsin; Army looks to large cities for new future command HQ

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HAVANA - Cuba released details Sunday on the latest mysterious health incident involving a U.S. diplomat in the country, saying that Cuban officials learned of the episode late last month when the U.S. said that an embassy official felt ill after hearing "undefined sounds" in her home in Havana.

Cuba said in a statement released by its Foreign Ministry that U.S. officials reported on May 29 that a female embassy official had reported experiencing "health symptoms" after hearing the sounds in her home two days earlier.

Cuba said it sent investigators to the home who found no potential source of a sound and were not granted access to the official.

U.S. officials said Friday that they had pulled two workers from Cuba and were testing them for possible brain injury. There was no immediate explanation of why the Cuban statement only referred to one official.

The two individuals are considered "potentially new cases" but have not yet been "medically confirmed," a State Department official said. Two other officials said the individuals have been brought for testing to the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors have been evaluating, treating and studying Americans affected in Cuba last year as well as almost 10 new possible cases from a U.S. consulate in China.

The officials weren't authorized to comment and requested anonymity.

If confirmed by doctors to have the same condition, the two individuals would be the 25th and 26th confirmed patients from the bizarre incidents in Cuba that were disclosed last year.

Salmonella sickens 60 in five Midwestern states, officials say

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Health officials say a salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut melon has sickened 60 people in five Midwestern states.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Caito Foods LLC on Friday recalled pre-cut watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe and fruit medleys containing at least one of those melons that were produced at its facility in Indianapolis.

It says the five states where people were sickened are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. The CDC says the fruit was also distributed to stores in Georgia, Kentucky and North Carolina. It was sold in clear plastic clamshell containers at Costco, Jay C, Kroger, Payless, Owen's, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, Walgreens, Walmart and Whole Foods/Amazon.

Officials say people should throw away or return recalled products.

Putin says he's ready to meet Trump, praises remark on G-7

QINGDAO, China - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he's happy to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump once Washington is ready to hold the summit and welcomed Trump's call to bring Moscow back into the G-7 group of leading industrialized nations.

Speaking to reporters, Putin said some nations, including Austria, have offered to host a Putin summit with Trump, should they have one.

"The U.S. president has repeatedly said that it's reasonable to hold such a meeting," Putin said on the sidelines of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Putin's remarks follow a report that White House officials were working toward setting up a meeting. Trump has said he was open to having a summit with Putin.

3,000 protesters demonstrate against corruption in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania - Some 3,000 protesters gathered in the Romanian capital to oppose official corruption a day after a massive government rally against anti-corruption prosecutors.

Demonstrators yelled "Justice, not corruption!" and lit up the sky with their mobile phones as night felt on Sunday.

Irina Panzaru, a consultant, accused the government of trying to hijack the justice system after it moved to dismiss the country's chief anti-corruption prosecutor.

She said: "I think we are slowly moving toward a dictatorship and I am horrified."

More than 100,000 supporters of the center-left government rallied in the same spot Saturday, claiming anti-corruption prosecutors had too much power.

Light plane crash kills four in southern Wisconsin

MONROE, Wis. - A small plane has crashed in southern Wisconsin, killing four people.

The Green County Sheriff's Office says the crash happened just after noon on Sunday about a mile north of the Monroe Municipal Airport.

Sheriff Mark Rohloff said the single-engine Cessna 182T went down in a grassy meadow. Rohloff said the plane was within sight of the airport's runway when it crashed. He says the pilot and three passengers died at the scene.

The Wisconsin State Journal reported that Rohloff said the plane was scheduled to arrive in Monroe after taking off from the Kenosha Regional Airport in the morning.

Rohloff said a witness heard the plane losing power, saw it descending and noticed flames coming from it. Firefighters put out a fire at the scene.

Army looks to large cities for new future command HQ

The U.S. Army is scouting large cities to find a home for a new command headquarters so it'll be close to academia and industry, a first for the service.

The Army typically likes to put its facilities away from population centers.

The new command will focus on what the Army of the future should look like. The Army wants to be near experts in technology and innovation.

It's close to picking the site.

Fifteen cities were in contention: Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; Minneapolis; New York; Philadelphia; Raleigh, N.C.; San Diego; San Francisco; and Seattle.

Army officials chose finalists to visit but haven't announced which cities made the cut.

Hurricane Bud formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico on Sunday even as former Hurricane Aletta was fading. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Bud had maximum sustained winds of 80 mph Sunday. It was centered about 235 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, and was moving northwest at 9 mph.

Two people are dead after a glider crash in Grand Teton National Park. The park said the wreckage was found at approximately 10,800 feet Saturday after the two people on board failed to return from a flight from Driggs, Idaho. The glider's pilot has been identified as 65-year-old Kristine Ciesinksi of Victor, Idaho.

Caption: Centenary of U.K. women's vote: Participants on Sunday march through London to celebrate 100 years since women were granted the right to vote. Thousands turned cities into rivers of green, white and violet, the colors of the suffragette movement.

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