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Colo. Corrections Dept. chief shot, killed at home
In the weeks before Colorado's top prisons official was fatally shot after answering his front door, he carried out a variety of functions including ...
Sea Shepherd seeks criminal case against whalers
Sea Shepherd wants Dutch authorities to prosecute Japanese whalers for piracy for allegedly attacking the radical conservationist group's ships in ...
Sudan leader says he intends to step down in 2015
Sudan's president said he intends to step down in 2015 after more than 20 years in power. In an interview published in several Sudanese dailies on ...
NYC cop: Payback likely after stop-frisk testimony
A New York City police officer testified Wednesday that he's already been labeled a rat and expects more retaliation from colleagues for testifying ...
US implies Rwanda hasn't assured warlord's passage
The United States appears to be worried that Rwanda won't allow a warlord from Congo now camped out in the U.S. Embassy safe passage to the airport ...
Syria regime, rebels want probe of chemical attack
Syria's government and rebels on Wednesday both demanded an international investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack, as the country's ...
Priest kidnapped by junta: not denounced by pope
A Jesuit priest who was kidnapped by the Argentine military junta in the 1970s said Wednesday that he and a fellow cleric weren't denounced by the ...
Italian marines sought by India are questioned
A military prosecutor in Rome questioned two Italian marines on Wednesday who India is insisting must return to face trial in the deaths of two Indian ...
Zimbabwe court denies bail to human rights lawyer
A Zimbabwe court refused Wednesday to free on bail the nation's top rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, on charges of obstructing justice after her arrest ...
Website close to al-Qaida claims hostage executed
A French hostage was executed by al-Qaida's North African branch in retaliation for France's military intervention in northern Mali, according to an ...
Surviving a surge in street violence in Venezuela
On their daily cable car rides to and from home in Venezuela's capital, Maria Gonzalez and Jose Rafael Suarez soar in a bubble of safety far above the ...
Battle for control over Bolshoi escalates
The foes make a striking contrast — a bald, stolid general director versus an extravagant dancer with an opulent mane of dark hair. And the stakes ...
5 Pakistanis killed in robbery outside Cape Town
South African police say two robbers stealing a safe shot and killed five Pakistani men and wounded a sixth in a ghetto outside the tourist resort of ...
UK: Senior editor at The Sun charged over payoffs
The deputy editor at The Sun tabloid in Britain has been charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs to government officials, ...
Hate graffiti sprayed on Jewish homes in Tel Aviv
Israeli police say vandals have spray painted hate graffiti on several Jewish houses in Jaffa, a mixed Israeli and Arab neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
Website in Mauritania says French hostage killed
A Mauritanian-based website says that al-Qaida's North African branch has executed a French hostage in retaliation for France's military intervention ...
Abuse victims want pope to open Argentina files
A Roman Catholic activist group said Tuesday that Pope Francis was slow as head of the Argentine church to act against sexual abuse by clergy and ...
Testimony begins in trial of Rockefeller impostor
Testimony in the murder trial of a notorious Rockefeller impostor opened Tuesday with a witness telling how his excavation for a pool turned creepy ...
Witness breaks down in NYC stop-and-frisk trial
A nonprofit worker wept on the witness stand Tuesday as he described an unnerving episode of being handcuffed near his home while an officer took his ...
Worker admits cutting 10 babies at abortion clinic
A medical assistant told a jury Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic, ...
Congo warlord Bosco Ntaganda remains at US Embassy
Wanted on an international warrant for alleged war crimes, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda lived openly in Congo for years, playing tennis at ...
French minister resigns in face of tax-fraud probe
France's budget minister, ensnared in a ballooning scandal over suspected tax fraud and money laundering, on Tuesday became the first resignation in ...
Zimbabweans vote in favor of new constitution
Zimbabwe's electoral body said Tuesday that 94.5 percent of voters cast a ballot in favor of a new constitution that calls for a strengthening of ...
Police: 2 suspects detained in attack on tourists
Two suspects have been detained in a weekend shooting attack on a British couple who were wounded and robbed by gunmen as they visited Barbados on a ...