AMMAN, Jordan – An official says Jordan’s state security court handed down prison terms for eight defendants in an alleged plot by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia to attack U.S. troops and Israel’s embassy in Jordan. Jordanian media have reported that seven Jordanian defendants were arrested before being able to move ahead …
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TORONTO – A Canadian church says its senior pastor has been missing in North Korea since late January. Lisa Pak, a spokeswoman for the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, said Tuesday that Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim travelled to North Korea on Jan. 31 as part of a regular humanitarian …
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PARIS – France’s top court on Friday upheld the government’s decision to strip the citizenship of a Franco-Moroccan man convicted of terrorism-related crimes, amid calls to expand such measures after deadly attacks in Paris. The Constitutional Court said the fight against terrorism justifies different treatment of those who were born …
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s attorney general says that confessions and forensic evidence show that all 43 students who disappeared at the hands of local police in September were killed and then incinerated at a garbage dump in the southern state of Guerrero — a conclusion that relatives of the victims …
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BERLIN – Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92. Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 after a short illness, according to a statement Friday on the website of …
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JERUSALEM – A Catholic Church official in Israel says a Christian cemetery has been desecrated, with graves damaged and crosses smashed. Wadie Abunassar said some 20 gravestones at the cemetery in Kufr Birim in northern Israel were found vandalized early Wednesday. He said some were shattered, with pieces of stone …
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Palestinian ministers have unexpectedly cut short their rare visit to the Gaza Strip. It was not clear what led the West Bank ministers to leave ahead of schedule on Monday. But rival Palestinian factions blamed each other for the abrupt departure. The eight Cabinet ministers, …
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LONDON – The leader of the Scottish arm of Britain’s Labour Party is stepping down after the party lost almost all of its seats to Scottish nationalists in the general election last week. Jim Murphy was one of 40 Labour lawmakers who lost their seats in Parliament to the pro-independence …
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BEIRUT – Syria’s official news agency says Iran is extending a credit line to make up for market needs and reports that the two countries have signed several agreements in the fields of electricity, industry, oil and investment. The new credit was announced Tuesday during a visit to Damascus by …
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TOKYO – Four years after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, the road ahead remains riddled with unknowns. The government approved a revised 30-to-40-year roadmap Friday that delays by three years the start of a key initial step — the removal of still-radioactive used fuel rods …
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