ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigerian officials Tuesday formed a panel to investigate a report of rapes, child trafficking and other abuses in northeastern camps for people fleeing from Boko Haram. A report funded by Nigeria’s Calabar-based International Centre for Investigative Reporting alleged some officials who should be protecting displaced people are …
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BEIJING – China’s first female astronaut has begun training for her next mission after giving birth to her first child, state media reported Friday. The official China Daily newspaper quoted Liu Yang as confirming the birth at an award ceremony this week but gave no details. It quoted her saying …
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BERLIN – A German court says a 93-year-old man has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an SS guard at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland. The defendant, whose name wasn’t disclosed in line with privacy laws, allegedly served in …
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NEW DELHI – Police say they have arrested seven people for allegedly stealing classified government documents and selling them to energy companies. Police Commissioner Bhim Sain Bassi said three men were arrested after they were caught trespassing and stealing documents from India’s ministry of petroleum and natural gas. The men …
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BAGHDAD – Officials say bombings in and around Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, have killed at least eight people. Police say a bomb near a restaurant killed three civilians and wounded eight Tuesday in the northwestern Shula neighborhood. They say a bomb also killed three civilians and wounded nine in a commercial …
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MANAMA, Bahrain – A defense lawyer says a Bahraini court has found 11 Shiites guilty of involvement in a deadly bomb attack targeting police last year and sentenced three of them to death. Attorney Mohammed al-Tajir says the other eight convicted Thursday were sentenced to life imprisonment and will have …
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MOSCOW – Crimea’s independent television station ATR has gone off air after Russian authorities repeatedly refused to give it a broadcasting license. ATR was established as the first channel dedicated to the Crimean Tatars, an native ethnic group of about 300,000 that was deported from the region by the Soviet …
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DHAKA, Bangladesh – A Bangladeshi court on Monday turned down the last legal appeal by an Islamist party official convicted of collaborating in 1971 war crimes and upheld his death sentence. The decision by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court was the last legal roadblock to execution for 62-year-old …
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TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s defense spokesman said a fifth soldier has died from wounds suffered in an ambush Tuesday that also wounded eight people. Brig. Gen. Belhassen Oueslati said Wednesday that 13 suspects were arrested in the mountainous region around the city of Kasserine near the Algerian border during a …
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BAMAKO, Mali – A Malian military spokesman says two soldiers are dead and three others wounded after a military vehicle struck a roadside bomb in southern Mali. Col. Souleymane Maiga said the attack took place Sunday in Mali’s Segou region, far from the violence in the country’s north that has …
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