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Abduction and terrorism trial after boy found dead at New Mexico compound opens with mom's testimony

Sep. 27, 2023 02:58 AM EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler who was whisked away from his Georgia home by relatives without her permission to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died. Four family...

Cuba's ambassador to the US says Molotov cocktails thrown at Cuban embassy were a 'terrorist attack'

Sep. 26, 2023 19:49 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba’s ambassador to the United States says a weekend incident in which at least one incendiary device was thrown into the Cuban embassy compound was a “terrorist attack.” The Cuban embassy's chief of mission, Lianys Torres Rivera, told The Associated Press...

India and Canada steer clear, in UN speeches, of their dispute over Sikh separatist leader's killing

Sep. 26, 2023 18:11 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Indian and Canadian diplomats didn't directly address their countries' row over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, but they obliquely underscored some key talking points as they addressed world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. Foreign...

Jury selection opens in terrorism trial of extended family members dating to 2018 New Mexico raid

Sep. 25, 2023 18:14 PM EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in federal court as members of an extended family confronted kidnapping and terrorism charges stemming from the search for a missing 3-year-old boy by agents who raided a squalid New Mexico encampment in 2018. The boy's badly...

A Molotov cocktail is thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there's no significant damage

Sep. 25, 2023 16:05 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one Molotov cocktail was thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured. U.S. law enforcement officials were investigating. Secret Service officers were called around 8 p.m. Sunday to respond to the...

Kosovo mourns a slain police officer, some Serb gunmen remain at large after a siege at a monastery

Sep. 25, 2023 11:27 AM EDT

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo on Monday observed a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police officer killed by Serb gunmen in the north of the country in one of the worst confrontations since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008. About 30 masked men in combat...

Weapons charges dropped in 2018 raid on family compound in desert that turned up child's remains

Sep. 21, 2023 21:44 PM EDT

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday amid preparations for a trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy's decomposed body. The changes...

A British ex-soldier pleads not guilty to escaping from a London prison

Sep. 21, 2023 08:27 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A former soldier who allegedly snuck out of a London prison by strapping himself under a food delivery truck has pleaded not guilty to escaping custody. Daniel Khalife, 21, appeared at London's Central Criminal Court on Thursday by video link from the high-security...

Prosecutors seek life in prison for man who opened fire on New York City subway train, injuring 10

Sep. 20, 2023 21:02 PM EDT

Federal prosecutors have recommended life sentences for the man who opened fire on a crowded Brooklyn subway train last year, injuring 10 people. In a memo addressed to leading Judge William F. Kuntz II on Wednesday, prosecutors said there was overwhelming evidence that shows Frank...

Court sentences main suspects in Belgium's deadliest peacetime attack to 20-year to life terms

Sep. 16, 2023 08:15 AM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian court on Friday sentenced five men to sentences ranging from 20 years to life in prison on charges of terrorist murder in connection with 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a busy subway station, the country’s...