LONDON – A judge has sentenced a British teenager to 22 years in prison for plotting to behead a British soldier. Judge Timothy Pontius says he has no doubt that Brusthom Ziamani, 19, would have carried out the attack had he not been stopped by police in east London. He …
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has charged another suspect with crimes against humanity, defying for the second time this month a warning from Prime Minister Hun Sen that adding more defendants could cause unrest. The tribunal announced Friday that the investigating judge filed charges against Aom …
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KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan police say they are investigating whether the killing of a prosecutor in Kampala late Monday was carried out by Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. Patrick Onyango, a police spokesman in the Ugandan capital, said Tuesday that Joan Kagezi, who had been a prosecutor in the ongoing …
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BEIRUT – Lebanese security officials say an explosion inside a coffee shop in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has killed at least two people and wounded others. The officials say that the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear Saturday night. They spoke on condition of anonymity as …
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GAUHATI, India – Wildlife rangers in remote northeastern India shot three suspected poachers dead in a gunbattle Wednesday morning in a famed rhino reserve. It was the second recent case of violence in Kaziranga National Park, where three other poachers have been shot dead in the past two weeks. On …
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NEW DELHI – Air India says one of its flights was delayed after a pilot allegedly assaulted a ground engineer on board an aircraft as he prepared to take off for Paris from the southern Indian city of Chennai. Airline spokesman G.P. Rao says authorities have ordered an inquiry into …
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BEIRUT – A U.N. official says the flow of Syrian refugees into Lebanon has dropped sharply due to restrictions recently imposed by Lebanese authorities. Although Lebanese border officials began informally restricting the entry of Syrians last October, the tiny Arab country officially imposed visa regulations earlier this month on their …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it cannot deliver aid to 600,000 people in two Syrian cities controlled by the Islamic State group. Deputy humanitarian chief Kyung-wha Kang told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that residents of the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa and the …
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DAMASCUS, Syria – A bomb placed on a bus ferrying Lebanese pilgrims around Shiite holy sites in Damascus exploded Sunday, killing at least seven people, according to Syrian activists and Lebanese media. The bombing underscored the sectarian nature of Syria’s four-year war, and how neighboring Lebanon has become ensnared in …
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Embattled Brazilian oil giant Petrobras says the company’s CEO Graca Foster and five executive directors have stepped down. The corruption-wracked firm said in a one-line statement that the board will elect new executive members on Friday. Petrobras has been mired for months in a corruption case …
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