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KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Jamaican judge has ruled that a teenager suspected of hoping to join Islamic extremists must remain in police custody. Defense lawyer Zara Lewis filed an application seeking the 16-year-old boy’s release from police detention. But the magistrate ordered Thursday that he remain in custody until a …

TORONTO – Canada says it will issue a passport to Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial on terror charges. Kevin Menard, a spokesman for Canada’s immigration minister, said Monday they are “now in a position to issue Mr. Fahmy a passport despite …

LIMA, Peru – Mourners carried a coffin holding a 61-year-old farmer through the streets of a southern Peru port city Thursday after the man became the first fatality of a monthlong protest against a Mexican-owned copper mining project. Agriculture Minister Juan Manuel Benites, the chief government negotiator in the dispute, …

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia*s Health Ministry is recommending the immediate suspension of aerial spraying of a herbicide that*s the cornerstone of U.S.-financed efforts to wipe out cocaine crops. The ministry on Monday based its decision on the reclassification last month of glyphosate as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s …

MOSCOW – Chechnya’s leader says he is ready to give evidence in the investigation into the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The main suspect in the Feb. 27 killing is an officer in Ramzan Kadyrov’s security force, and Nemtsov’s children have asked for Kadyrov to be questioned. Speaking …

MINSK, Belarus – Under a new measure in Belarus, people who work less than half the year will have to pay the government for their idleness. The parliament on Wednesday passed the proposal by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, which requires work-capable people who work less than 183 days a year …

BAGHDAD – Forty inmates in a prison in eastern Iraq, including some convicted of terrorism charges, have escaped amid a riot that killed at least six police officers and 30 prisoners, Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday. There were conflicting casualty reports on the attack at the Khalis prison in …

BEIRUT – Syria has been so contaminated with weapons and bombs that the lives of 5.1 million people, including 2 million children, are at constant risk, an international aid group warned in a report released on Tuesday. Handicap International, which helps the disabled during conflicts, called on all parties in …

BUENOS AIRES – Two Argentine judges are under fire for cutting the sentence of a convicted child abuser on the grounds that his 6-year-old victim had suffered earlier abuse and therefore had already been traumatized. In the newly publicized 2014 ruling, the judges cut the child abuser’s sentence from six …

A college basketball player in Canada was approved by his team to proudly wear his last name on the back of his jersey: F—. Guilherme Carbagiale Fuck, a Brazilian-born 6 foot, 6 inch forward who plays for Medicine Hat College in Alberta, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that his name …