MOSCOW – Russian investigators are searching for a man suspected of killing and dismembering his six young children. His wife also was missing and reported dead, and police said that a woman believed to be his mother was found dead. The federal Investigative Committee said in a statement that the …
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JERUSALEM – Israel’s military says its aircraft hit a site used by the militant Islamic group Hamas in Gaza in retaliation to a rocket fired from the territory at Israel earlier in the day. No one was killed in Friday’s exchange. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner says that “multiple …
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KATHMANDU, Nepal – An official says police in Nepal have fired at demonstrators protesting a proposed constitution, killing at least two and wounding 12 others. Police official Rajesh Lal Karna said officers were forced to open fire Monday because hundreds of protesters had defied a curfew order and were attacking …
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PARIS – Food and drinks giant Nestle says sales and net profit declined slightly in the first half due to currency fluctuations and the recall of Maggi noodles in India. The Swiss company behind Nescafe, Stouffer’s, Haagen Dazs and Perrier says sales fell to 42.8 billion Swiss francs (39.3 billion …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – A former Venezuelan defense minister turned staunch government critic was freed from prison early Thursday, making him the second prominent opposition leader to be freed in little more than 24 hours. A military tribunal granted retired Gen. Raul Baduel parole after he completed six years of a …
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – A militant group that has claimed responsibility for recent violence in Mali has rebranded itself as al-Qaida’s West Africa branch while reaffirming that it is led by the notorious extremist Moktar Belmoktar. The SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. monitoring outfit, said the latest statement from Belmoktar’s …
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SRINAGAR, India – Suspected rebels opened fire at a police post in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Tuesday, killing a police constable and a civilian, authorities said. Two militants riding a motorcycle shot at a sentry post outside a shrine in the northwestern village of Tujjar Sharief and took …
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JUBA, South Sudan – Officials of media unions and associations in South Sudan say they have started a 24-hour news blackout to demand a full investigation into the killing of a newspaper reporter and assurances of safety for journalists working in the war-torn nation. Peter Julius Moi was shot twice …
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LONDON – A Sudanese migrant accused of walking the entire length of the 31-mile (50-kilometer) Channel Tunnel from France to Britain has pleaded innocent to charges in a court appearance. Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, denied causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage when he appeared at Canterbury Crown Court …
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BEIRUT – The television station of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and activists say a 48-hour cease-fire has started in a Syrian border town and two Shiite villages in northern Syria. The town of Zabadani, near the Lebanese border, and the villages of Foua and Kfarya have been the scene of bloody …
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