BEIJING – China says border guards have shot one person trying to illegally cross from North Korea. A brief statement from the Helong city government said the incident took place shortly before 4:00 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday after the suspect attempted to evade arrest by border guards. It says …
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BEIJING – Chinese police say they fatally shot an ethnic Uighur man after he tried to attack travelers at a train station with a cement block. Railway police in the northern city of Xi’an said a police officer repeatedly warned the man before shooting him as he attacked travelers buying …
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LONDON – A British man who beheaded an 82-year-old woman in her backyard has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but will be locked up indefinitely in a psychiatric hospital. Nicholas Salvador stabbed Palmira Silva to death in north London in September. He cut off her …
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UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. panel is calling for Internet and social media companies to respond to the exploitation of their services by al-Qaida and other extremist groups who use the web to recruit fighters and spout “increasingly horrific propaganda.” The panel recommended in a report circulated Wednesday that these …
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PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo’s Parliament has failed to pass constitutional amendments that would allow the establishment of a special court to prosecute war crimes including the killing of hundreds of Serb civilians. In a major blow to relations between Kosovo and its main international backer, the United States, the 120-seat …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Texas woman vanished while snorkeling off the northwestern coast of Curacao last week, and the local coast guard stopped looking for her after three days of fruitless searching, authorities reported Monday. Amanda Waller was last seen Thursday while swimming back to Curacao’s popular Cas Abao beach. …
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MOSCOW – Russian gas giant Gazprom says it has halted supplies to neighboring Ukraine after the collapse of pricing talks. Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said Russia halted the supply at 10 a.m. Moscow time on Wednesday because Ukraine did not pay the advance for the July delivery. Russian and Ukrainian …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill that allows certain public agencies to buy up to $400 million in tax and revenue anticipation notes. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said Friday that the bill aims to help boost the liquidity of the U.S. territory’s Treasury Department amid …
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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican Navy says it has rescued 12 Cuban men who were found aboard a makeshift raft off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Photos supplied by the Navy on Monday showed a raft apparently made of polystyrene foam blocks tied to a framework of wooden boards. …
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SANAA, YEMEN – Yemeni security officials say airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels and their allies have struck several cities, including a military base in the capital, Sanaa, despite a declared truce. They say warplanes also bombed a cement factory in Amran province Sunday, wounding 10 people. Other …
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