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5 things to know today - that aren't about the virus

Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:

1. NEW PROSECUTOR ON AHMAUD ARBERY CASE Georgia's attorney general has appointed an Atlanta-area district attorney to oversee an investigation into the killing of a black man said to have died at the hands of two white men as he was jogging through a neighborhood.

2. '~FRIENDLY FIRE' KILLS 19 IRANIAN SAILORS An Iranian missile launched during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman strikes a support vessel near its target. Another 15 seamen are wounded.

3. COMEDY LEGEND JERRY STILLER DIES AT 92 Stiller's career stretched from dozens of appearances with his late wife Anne Meara on 'œThe Ed Sullivan Show'ť to roles on 'œSeinfeld,'ť 'œKing of Queens'ť and son Ben's 'œZoolander.'ť

4. SEX ASSAULT COMPLAINT IN FRANCE The public prosecutor's office in Paris says it has opened a preliminary investigation into an accusation against former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

5. TIMELINE GETTING A SECOND LOOK Scientists say human bones found in a Bulgarian cave indicate that our species came to Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2013, file photo, actor Jerry Stiller arrives at the special screening of HBO's Documentary "Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley" at The Apollo Theater on in New York. Comedian veteran Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show 'œSeinfeld,' died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP) The Associated Press
In this photo provided Monday, May 11, 2020, by the Iranian Army, the Konarak support vessel which was struck during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman, is docked in an unidentified naval base in Iran. An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15, Iran's state media reported on Monday, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S. (Iranian Army via AP) The Associated Press
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