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Lebanese police say US Embassy shooter was motivated by personal grudge against security guards
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese police said Thursday that a food delivery driver who opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut last week allegedly did so because of a personal grudge against the guards at the compound. The police said they had arrested the suspected shooter on Monday,...
Senior Thai national park official, 3 others, acquitted in 9-year-old case of missing activist
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Thursday acquitted four national park employees, including a senior official, of the kidnapping and murder of an Indigenous rights activist who disappeared under suspicious circumstances more than nine years ago. The activist, Porlajee...
Teen testifies about boy's death and firearms training at New Mexico compound
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — With his hand placed on his son's neck, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj recited verses of the Quran as part of a ritual meant to rid the toddler of evil spirits that Wahhaj and members of his extended family believed were causing the boy's ailments. The ritual known as...
6 bodies and 1 survivor found in Mexico, in the search for 7 kidnapped youths
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A search for seven kidnapped youths in the north-central Mexico state of Zacatecas appeared to come to a tragic end Wednesday when searchers found six bodies and one survivor in a remote area. State prosecutors said the surviving young man was found with serious...
Abduction and terrorism trial after boy found dead at New Mexico compound opens with mom's testimony
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...
9 years later, families of 43 missing Mexican students march to demand answers in emblematic case
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Chanting from one to 43, relatives of students abducted nine years ago counted out the number of the missing youths as they marched through Mexico City Tuesday to demand answers to one of Mexico's most infamous human rights cases. With President Andrés Manuel...
Jury selection opens in terrorism trial of extended family members dating to 2018 New Mexico raid
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...
Security forces rescue 14 students abducted from Nigerian university
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Security forces rescued 14 out of at least 20 students abducted from a university in northwestern Nigeria and were searching for the remaining captives, school authorities said Monday Gunmen attacked the school in the hard-hit Zamfara state’s Bungudu...
Kidnapped teen rescued from Southern California motel room after 4 days of being held hostage
SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities rescued a 17-year-old boy in Southern California after he was kidnapped and held hostage for four days by captors who threatened to harm him if his family did not pay a $500,000 ransom. The teen was rescued Friday after law enforcement tracked...
At least 20 students abducted in a new attack by gunmen targeting schools in northern Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted at least 20 students in northwestern Nigeria during an attack early Friday that targeted their school, local media and authorities reported Friday, the latest in a cycle of violence in the country’s troubled northern region. The students...
