NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A court in Mauritania has convicted three men of belonging to the Islamic State extremist group and sentenced them to between five and 10 years in prison. The men were arrested last year during a demonstration and authorities said they had IS flags and photos of the …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A former Roman Catholic priest has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking a teenage boy on a cruise ship vacation with the intent to engage in illegal sexual conduct. The U.S. Attorney’s Office on the U.S. Caribbean island says expelled priest Israel …
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Jordan’s top diplomat denied that the revolutions that have rocked Tunisia and Egypt over the last month, and which sent the longtime rulers of both countries fleeing their respective capitals, will spread to Amman. In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judah said the recent wave …
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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa says it will consider withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as a “last resort” following a dispute over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who visited South Africa this month despite an international order for his arrest for alleged war crimes. The South African government said in a …
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PRISTINA, Kosovo – The United States says it won’t block Russia’s attempts to establish a U.N. tribunal to investigate allegations that Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian wartime leaders killed hundreds of Serbs civilians after the country’s lawmakers rejected amendments to the constitution to allow a Western-backed court deal with the claims. The …
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has yet another strange bedfellow in its expanding ecological alliance, hosting anti-capitalist eco-crusader Naomi Klein at a conference on saving the planet. Klein, author of “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” acknowledged Wednesday that she never expected to be invited to the Vatican, “as …
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BAMAKO, Mali – The United Nations says six peacekeepers have been killed and five wounded in an attack on their convoy in north Mali. A statement by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali says the attack happened Thursday morning while the convoy patrolled the road between Goundam and Timbuktu, about …
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LONDON – A small group of neo-Nazis have staged an anti-Semitic rally in London, but were hugely outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. About 20 far-right activists protested in central London against Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood watch group. They had planned to rally in north London’s Golders Green area, home to a large …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan official says at least 14 people have been killed in an attack by al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants in the country’s north. Mandera County Commissioner Alex Nkoyo said the attack took place Tuesday in Soko Mbuzi village in Mandera County near the Kenyan border with Somalia and …
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – The lawyer for Guinea’s ex-junta leader in exile in Burkina Faso says Moussa “Dadis” Camara has been indicted for the deaths of more than 156 people who had gathered at an opposition rally in 2009. The lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Haba, said Guinean magistrates arrived in Ouagadougou and …
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