AMMAN, Jordan – An official says Jordan’s state security court handed down prison terms for eight defendants in an alleged plot by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia to attack U.S. troops and Israel’s embassy in Jordan. Jordanian media have reported that seven Jordanian defendants were arrested before being able to move ahead …
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio de Janeiro’s police force operates with “total impunity,” targeting mostly young, mostly black and mostly poor people in the Olympic city’s violent slums for extrajudicial executions, Amnesty International alleged in a report Monday. The group accuses Rio’s police of wielding an “unnecessary and disproportional use …
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HAT YAI, Thailand – Security officials in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand plan to ban the use of metal cooking gas tanks because they are often used to make homemade bombs. Police Capt. Kritapas Kruenet said Wednesday that they will be replaced with polymer and fiberglass cylinders that can also be used …
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KINSHASA, Congo – A government spokesman says that a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Congo early Friday, causing the death of at least two children. Lambert Mende says the epicenter of the earthquake was located close to Lake Tanganyika near Bukavu, the capital of the South Kivu province. He says …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Officials say Kurdish rebels have fired at a police vehicle in southern Turkey, killing a policeman and wounding another, in the latest attack against Turkish security forces. The governor’s office for Mardin province said militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, opened fire late Saturday at …
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MOSCOW – Russia’s counterterrorism agency says its forces have killed four suspected militants, including the top leader of Islamic rebels in North Caucasus. The Anti-Terrorist Committee said Tuesday the suspects were killed in a raid in the province of Dagestan. It identified one of them as Magomed Suleimanov, the leader …
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HELSINKI – Swedish officials say the main suspect in a knife attack that killed two people at an Ikea store in the central Sweden was due to be deported after his request for residency was rejected last month. The Migration Agency said the 35-year-old Eritrean-born man had met with agency …
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BERLIN – The comet where a European spacecraft landed last year has made the closest approach to the sun of its 6 ½-year orbit. The European Space Agency said comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reached its closest point to the sun, known as perihelion, at 0203 GMT Thursday. That put it some 186 …
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BENGHAZI, Libya – Witnesses and officials say Libya’s Islamic State affiliate has seized control of a neighborhood in the central city of Sirte, going door to door searching for members of a rival group it has been battling for days. Mohammed Hadia, a government committee member, said IS fighters are …
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CAIRO – The Egyptian presidency says President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s mother has died and urges Egyptians to support public projects instead of paying for notices offering condolences on her passing. Monday’s statement didn’t say how old el-Sissi’s mother, Soad Ibrahim, was or give the cause of death. The 60-year-old el-Sissi has …
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