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Cannes crime: 2nd jewel theft during film festival
Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 ...
EU in Kosovo arrests 5 war crime suspects
The European Union law mission in Kosovo says five ethnic Albanian men have been arrested for alleged war crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 ...
Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming ...
86 sentenced in Macedonia highway toll scam case
A criminal court in Macedonia's capital has sentenced 86 employees of a road management company to prison terms ranging from eight months to more than ...
Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his ...
Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after ...
Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter ...
Czech police seek US man suspected of 4 murders
An American man is suspected of killing a family of four and is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. The bodies ...
Dutch arrest meat works owner in horse meat probe
Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation ...
Malaysian charged with sedition, 3 more arrested
Malaysian authorities detained three anti-government figures, charged a student activist with sedition and seized hundreds of opposition newspapers ...
Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets
The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect ...
Russian boy stabbed in Greece treated in Germany
A Russian boy who suffered extensive injuries when he was stabbed during a vacation on the Greek island of Crete is being treated at a hospital in ...
Father of Afghanistan cricket captain abducted
Gunmen kidnapped the father of Afghanistan's national cricket team captain near his home in an eastern city, officials said Thursday. There has been ...
2011 jail breaks become political issue in Egypt
It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 ...
Lawyer: Malaysian accused of rape married the girl
Prosecutors in Malaysia are pursuing rape charges against a 40-year-old man who allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl and then married her.
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen ...
Ousted premier seeks return to power in Cayman
A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges and was ousted from leadership last year went into Wednesday's general elections with ...
Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears
Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — ...
Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
Authorities in the U.S. shot to death a Chechen immigrant who turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon ...
Report: Crisis stoking anti-migrant bias in Europe
A top human rights group warned Wednesday that the plight of refugees and migrants fleeing wars and economic hardship is worsening in Europe as ...
Colombia: 10 soldiers killed by in rebel attack
At least 10 Colombian soldiers were killed and six wounded Wednesday in a pre-dawn attack on an army patrol with homemade explosives by the country's ...
Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release
The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months ...
Vatican releases 1st report of financial watchdog
The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog ...