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MIAMI – A Haitian man accused of piloting a boat overloaded with migrants that capsized off South Florida, killing at least nine migrants, is being held without bail. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ann Vitunac on Wednesday told Jimmy Metellus those deaths make him “potentially eligible” for the death penalty. He’s charged …

NAIROBI, Kenya – One of Kenya’s most famous white aristocrats was convicted of manslaughter Thursday in the shooting of a black poacher, a case that underlined sharp divisions over land, race and privilege in the African country. Thomas Cholmondeley, 40, was originally charged with murder over the 2006 shooting of …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran blamed the U.S. and Israel on Friday for a bombing in a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran that killed 25 people, saying the countries were trying to stoke sectarian tension with the Sunni Muslim minority. Iran has repeatedly accused the U.S. and other Western countries of …