JERUSALEM – A four-year-old Israeli girl died two years after being seriously wounded when Palestinians threw rocks at the car she was riding in as it drove through the West Bank. Adele Bitton died Tuesday soon after she was hospitalized for a lung infection. Her mother Adva was driving her …
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BEIRUT – A Syrian activist group says an explosion in the ancestral village of Syrian President Bashar Assad has killed at least four people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the explosion took place Saturday in a hospital parking lot in Qardaha, the hometown and burial place of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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HYDERABAD, India – Police say they have killed 20 suspected sandalwood smugglers during a fierce gun battle in the southern Indian forests of Andhra Pradesh state. M. Kantha Rao, deputy inspector general of a special police task force, says the smugglers attacked forest and police officials who had been searching …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Twelve suspects have been arrested on charges of child pornography across Puerto Rico in the largest such operation in the U.S. territory, federal authorities said Thursday. Among those arrested were a former police officer, a high school teacher and an Internal Revenue Service employee, said …
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has signed a law that recognizes civil unions between same-sex couples. The law signed Monday takes effect in six months, giving same-sex and unmarried couples many of the rights granted to married couples. Among the changes, it will allow civil union partners to …
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BEIRUT – The Syrian army says troops have captured several villages in the southern province of Daraa and cut a major supply line to Jordan for opposition fighters. A statement released in Damascus Monday said the army carried out a military operation killing “large numbers” of militants and securing the …
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HAVANA – The NBA is the first U.S. professional league to visit sports-crazy Cuba since the declaration of detente between the Cold War enemies late last year. Stars such as former MVP Steve Nash and Hall of Fame inductee Dikembe Mutumbo will open a four-day training camp Thursday to wage …
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