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ROME – Italy’s top organized-crime fighter has warned of a danger that international terrorism could help finance itself through migrant trafficking. National Anti-mafia Prosecutor Franco Roberti, presenting an annual report on organized crime, told lawmakers in Rome Tuesday that “clandestine immigration and trafficking can feed international terrorism.” He says that …

TORONTO – The lawyer for a Canadian Al-Jazeera journalist is blasting the Canadian government for not doing enough to secure his release from Egypt. Journalist Mohamed Fahmy is out on bail awaiting retrial after more than a year behind bars in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. Lawyer Amal Clooney said in …

Al Qaeda militants in Yemen stormed the center of the coastal city of al-Mukalla early Thursday, freeing about 300 inmates, including scores of militants, Yemeni security officials said. Abdullah al Sharafi, a defense ministry official, said about a third of those freed were members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian …