BAGHDAD – An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body …
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UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says an independent panel of experts that examined new information about the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo has delivered its report. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday that Ban will study the …
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STOCKHOLM – Swedish prosecutors say their planned interrogation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over alleged sex crimes could take place in London within weeks. Lead prosecutor Marianne Ny said Monday she has submitted paperwork to British and Ecuadorian authorities asking for permission to question Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in …
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MORELIA, Mexico – Seven people including two police officers have been killed in what Mexican authorities call an ambush of a convoy in the southwestern state of Michoacan. The state Public Safety Department and Prosecutor’s Office say three more officers were wounded in the clash early Tuesday. Police were guarding …
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MADRID – Differences over a push for independence in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region have torn apart the governing coalition group, an alliance that has ruled the region for much of the past 40 years. The Convergence and Union party pact was declared finished Thursday by Convergence, a day after Union …
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UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed an independent panel Monday to review the United Nations’ handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic. Confidential documents have shown that the U.N.’s top human rights officials did not follow up for more than half a …
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SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials say ground fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Shiite rebels continue across the country as negotiators in neighboring Oman try to bring a halt to the combat. The officials say representatives of the southern separatist movement were meeting with the rebels, known as Houthis, …
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MONTREAL – A Canadian man sentenced to life in prison for killing and dismembering his Chinese lover and mailing the body parts to schools and political parties has joined a matchmaking website for inmates. Luka Magnotta’s profile was posted Sunday on Canadian Inmates Connect Inc., a website that tries to …
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LONDON – Amnesty International has expressed outrage after a British tribunal confirmed that Britain’s government had spied on the human rights organization. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal wrote to Amnesty on Thursday to notify it that Britain’s electronic intercepting agency, GCHQ, had violated its rules when it kept intercepted communications from …
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LISBON, Portugal – A Portuguese actor says he was detained on suspicion of terrorism after meditating and chanting Buddhist texts aboard a plane at Paris Orly airport. Heitor Lourenco, 47, says he was reciting texts in Tibetan from his smartphone screen on the Lisbon-bound Transavia plane when police ordered everybody …
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