SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At least seven people were stabbed Sunday when counterprotesters clashed with members of right-wing extremists groups that planned to hold a rally outside the California state Capitol building in Sacramento, authorities said.

California Highway Patrol Officer George Granada said about 30 members of the Traditionalist Worker Party were gathering for a rally around noon Sunday when they were met by about 400 counterprotesters and a fight broke out.

As people tried to leave the area, smaller fights broke out, Granada said. He said no arrests had been made as of Sunday afternoon.

He said the Capitol remained on lockdown three hours after the large fight broke out but that things had calmed down.

Sacramento Fire Department spokesman Chris Harvey said many other people had cuts, scrapes and bruises.

The victims were all present while a protest took place, said Sacramento Police spokesman Matt McPhail, but he said it was still unclear whether and how they were involved.

The Traditionalist Worker Party had scheduled and received a permit to protest at noon Sunday in front of the Capitol. McPhail said a group showed up to demonstrate against them.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has described TWP as a group formed in 2015 as the political wing of the Traditionalist Youth Network, which aims to “indoctrinate high school and college students into white nationalism.”

Matthew Heimbach, chairman of the Traditionalist Worker Party, told Tribune Newspapers that his group and the Golden State Skinheads organized the Sunday rally.

Officials: California wildfire destroys 200 homes, buildings

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. — A ravenous and deadly wildfire in central California has burned 200 homes and other buildings, though firefighters said Sunday light winds were helping contain the blaze.

The 58-square-mile fire has claimed at least two lives, and officials have warned the death toll may rise.

Firefighters may have found a set of human remains Saturday when they began going through neighborhoods to count houses and mobile homes incinerated by the blaze.

The tally of burned homes rose from 150 reported Saturday. Entire blocks were reduced to rubble and at least 2,500 homes threatened.

A Kern County Fire Department spokesman said Sunday that firefighters had contained swaths of the fire's northern and eastern edges, but work remained in securing the southern side of the blaze.

More heavy rain predicted for flood-ravaged West Virginia

ANSTED, W.Va. — As West Virginians continued surveying damage in a state so devastated by floods that one said her community “smelled like death,” residents braced for the prospect of more rain.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for 25 West Virginia counties on Monday. Heavy rains were possible in many areas already ravaged by last week's floods that killed at least 24 people statewide, tore through roads and bridges and knocked out utilities.

The forecast includes Greenbrier County, where 16 people have died and floodwaters have yet to recede.

Sunday marked the first day people could apply for Federal Emergency Management Agency aid in the three worst-hit counties of Greenbrier, Kanawha and Nicholas.

Pope Francis: Gays among those Catholic Church owes apology

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis says gays — and all the other people the church has marginalized, such as the poor and the exploited — deserve an apology.

Francis was asked Sunday en route home from Armenia if he agreed with one of his top advisers, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who told a conference in the days after the deadly Orlando gay club attack that the church owes an apology to gays for having marginalized them.

Francis responded that gays must be treated with respect.

He said some politicized behaviors of the homosexual community can be condemned for being “a bit offensive for others.” But he said: “Someone who has this condition, who has good will and is searching for God, who are we to judge?”

Israel, Turkey reach accord on reconciliation

JERUSALEM — Israel has reached a reconciliation deal with Turkey to end a bitter six-year rift between the Mideast powers, an official said Sunday.

Relations between the former close allies imploded in 2010 following an Israeli naval raid that killed nine Turkish activists, including a dual American citizen, who were on a ship trying to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Following the incident, Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel and greatly scaled back military and economic ties. But relations were never broken completely.

The official said the deal would include $20 million in Israeli compensation for families of those killed in the raid, an end to Turkish claims against Israeli military personnel and the state of Israel over the raid, and the mutual restoration of ambassadors.

Conservatives in Spain win, but need to build coalition

MADRID — Spain's repeat election Sunday failed to clarify the political future of the European Union's fifth-largest economy, as another inconclusive ballot compelled political leaders to resume negotiations on who should form a government.

The conservative Popular Party, which has ruled for the past four years, again collected the most votes but fell shy of the majority of 176 seats it needs in the 350-seat Parliament to form a government on its own.

With 99.9 percent of the votes counted, incumbent prime minister Mariano Rajoy's party picked up 137 seats in Parliament. That is better than the 123 it won in December but still means it will need allies if it wants to govern.

Rajoy declared he would make a push for power, saying, “We won the election, we demand the right to govern.”

Panama Canal: Fireworks exploded as the Chinese-owned ship Cosco Shipping Panama, carrying some 9,000 cargo containers, made an inaugural passage through the newly expanded Panama Canal on Sunday, launching the nation's $5.25 billion bet on a bright economic future despite tough times for global shipping.

Refugee crisis: No food and little water have reached 64,000 Syrian refugees stuck in the desert since Jordan sealed its border last week in response to a suicide attack, aid officials said Sunday. Jordan has signaled that a quick reopening is unlikely and said agencies must find other routes for getting the aid to refugees.