ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish prosecutors are seeking sentences of up to seven and a half years in prison for 18 journalists they accuse of engaging in terror propaganda for publishing photos showing a militant pointing a gun at a prosecutor who was killed in a failed hostage rescue operation in …
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CAIRO – Egypt’s state-run media says ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi is refusing to eat prison food because he doesn’t think it is safe. The state-run MENA news agency reported Morsi made the comments at a court hearing Saturday. He requested permission to receive outside food and described the prison …
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – A war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced one man to death and another to life in prison for collaborating with Pakistan to commit mass killings and other crimes during the 1971 war for independence. The decision was announced Tuesday, with the defendants — Sheikh Sirajul Islam …
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MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahrain’s chief of police says five suspects with links to Iran have been arrested in connection with a bombing last month that killed two police and wounded six others. Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Hassan says investigators have connected the suspects to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, as well as the …
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ATHENS, Greece – Greek authorities say they are planning to use a ferry currently docked at the island of Kos to transport up to 2,500 migrants to a northern port. The Greek Merchant Marine Ministry said Tuesday the Eleftherios Venizelos is expected to leave Kos by Wednesday morning to travel …
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JOHANNESBURG – A spokesman for South Africa’s justice ministry says a review board has up to four months to decide whether Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison into house arrest. Justice ministry spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga also said Thursday that the department has not yet had a response from Pistorius’ …
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Denmark’s foreign minister says the Scandinavian nation is briefly pulling back its Kuwait-based fighter jets that are taking part in the international coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State group to repair them and allow the staff to recover. Kristian Jensen said Saturday the four operational F-16 fighter …
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UNITED NATIONS – The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organization said Monday at the first-ever U.N. Security Council meeting spotlighting what organizers called the “barbaric treatment.” “It’s about time, 70 years after the …
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LONDON – The chair of Britain’s inquiry into the Iraq war has defended the time spent on the investigation amid heated criticism from families of those killed in the war. John Chilcot responded Wednesday to increasing pressure from bereaved families to release the findings, saying that the report must be …
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BEIJING – With the Chinese stock market turmoil that incited global panic abated — at least for now — here are some questions and answers about it, as well as lessons to learn: ___ WHY DID THE CHINESE STOCK MARKET PLUNGE SO MUCH? China’s main stock index fell nearly 23 …
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