LONDON – Prosecutors say a British teenager planned a gun and bomb attack on a college that had kicked him out for bad behavior. Liam Lyburd is on trial for allegedly amassing an arsenal to target Newcastle College in northern England. He was expelled in 2012 for being disruptive in …
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NEW DELHI – Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the southern Indian town of Rameswaram for the burial of former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, known as the father of the country’s military missile program. On Thursday his body, carried in a glass topped hearse, was driven from his …
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ROME – The Italian Navy is resuming exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, including near the coast of Libya, amid concerns about rapidly deteriorating security in the North African nation. The exercise will begin on Monday. It includes anti-submarine, anti-aircraft and anti-ship training operations. The exercise was suspended for a year …
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GENEVA – With the opening of the inaugural European Games in Baku 100 days away, human rights groups have called on host nation Azerbaijan to release political prisoners held on “trumped up” charges. Amnesty International released a report citing “the mounting persecution of government critics, detained under false charges.” Human …
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BANGUI, Central African Republic – Central African Republic’s president says authorities are in negotiations to secure the release of a French aid worker and her Central African colleague who were kidnapped this week. A foreign U.N. staffer was also briefly held this week by a militia group. The spate of …
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BERLIN – Germany’s ver.di trade union says private security personnel at the country’s Duesseldorf and Cologne-Bonn airports will stage a one-day warning strike Thursday in an ongoing dispute over wages. Union representative Andrea Becker told the dpa news agency Wednesday that after three unsuccessful rounds of talks, ver.di hopes to …
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine air force said one of its Italian-made light planes crashed at sea on a training mission Saturday, killing the two pilots. The single-prop SF-260FH was flying in formation with two other planes on a training flight when it crashed off Nasugbo township in Batangas province …
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KARACHI, Pakistan – Police say gunmen have shot and wounded a U.S. citizen in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. Police officer Pir Muhammad Shah says four men shot at Debra Lobo, a physician, as she drove to work at a medical college on Thursday. He says Lobo is married …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital is banning horse-drawn carriages in San Juan following allegations of animal abuse. Carmen Yulin says tourists and locals have complained about the horses’ condition and treatment. The executive order signed Sunday comes a few days after people posted pictures …
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Several hundred war veterans in Bosnia have protested the arrest in Switzerland of the wartime commander of the town of Srebrenica, where Serbs massacred thousands of Bosnian Muslims in 1995. Swiss authorities arrested Naser Oric Wednesday on a request from Serbia, which claims he killed Serb civilians …
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