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190 Georgian 'political' prisoners walk free
Nearly 200 people considered political prisoners by Georgia's new parliament walked free Sunday under an amnesty strongly opposed by President Mikhail ...
6 arrested in new rape of a bus passenger in India
Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on ...
Palestinian protesters evicted from West Bank site
Palestinian protesters who pitched tents at a strategic West Bank site to protest plans to build a Jewish housing project there were evicted early ...
Palestinian killed in Gaza border fence shooting
The Israeli military shot and killed one Palestinian near the border fence with Gaza on Friday, an official in the territory said. The military said ...
Report: Jimmy Savile targeted vulnerable for abuse
Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.
Turkey sees Kurdish feud behind Paris slayings
Turkey's prime minister suggested Friday that a feud among Kurdish rebels was behind the shooting deaths of three Kurdish activists in Paris, and the ...
EU police agency opens unit to tackle cybercrime
The European Union's police coordination agency opened a new cybercrime unit Friday to combat online offenses from banking fraud to peddling images ...
Pakistan protests clashes with India in Kashmir
Pakistan has summoned India's top diplomat in the country to protest a pair of clashes along the disputed Kashmir border in the past week that killed ...
3 Kurds killed in Paris; political motive claimed
Three Kurdish activists, including reportedly one of the founding members of a militant separatist group, were shot dead in what authorities called ...
Pakistani soldier killed by Indian gunfire
Indian troops fired across the disputed Kashmir border and killed a Pakistani soldier Thursday, Pakistan's military said, the third deadly incident ...
Man in Sweden paid to watch child sex abuse online
A court in southern Sweden has convicted a man of ordering online sex shows involving very young Filipino girls and sentenced him to eight years in ...
ICC seeks info from Libya on Gadhafi trial
The International Criminal Court asked Libyan authorities Thursday to explain widespread reports that they plan to put one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons ...
ICC prosecutors: Kenya trials will take months
International Criminal Court prosecutors plan to call dozens of witnesses to build their cases against four prominent Kenyans charged with involvement ...
Lawyer: Police beat New Delhi gang rape suspects
Police badly beat the five suspects arrested in the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, the lawyer for one of the men ...
3 Kurdish women shot dead at Paris office
Police say three Kurdish women have been shot dead at a pro-Kurdish center in Paris in what the French interior minister is calling an execution.
White House tries to keep momentum on gun control
The White House is fighting to keep the momentum for new gun legislation amid signs that the topic is losing ground in Congress to other pressing ...
Clinton likely to testify on Libya assault Jan. 22
The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton likely will testify before the panel on ...
Church can't withhold names in Calif. priest files
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles must release the names of church leaders and pedophile priests identified in thousands of pages of ...
UK jails mom for killing son over Quran study
A British judge on Monday sentenced a woman he called a "devoted and loving mother" to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son to death after ...
BBC broadcaster pleads not guilty on abuse charges
A BBC broadcaster has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually abusing three girls. The charges against the well-known 82-year-old sports broadcaster ...