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El Salvador tries ex-leader Funes in absentia for gang truce 04/26/2023 06:18pm • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador opened a trial Wednesday against former President Mauricio Funes alleging that he had negotiated a truce with the country’s powerful street gangs when he was president, but the trial will proceed without Funes who lives in Nicaragua. Funes has denied Fugees rapper Pras found guilty of political conspiracy 04/26/2023 06:09pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was accuse Oklahoma board denies clemency for death row inmate Glossip 04/26/2023 05:28pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma’s state parole board voted Wednesday not to recommend clemency for death row inmate Richard Glossip, even though the state attorney general said he doesn’t think the condemned man whose case has drawn celebrity interest received a fair trial. The Pardon and Parole Justices cancel order cutting 16 years off murder sentence 04/26/2023 05:19pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Justices on South Carolina's highest court on Wednesday erased an order that cut 16 years off a convicted murderer's sentence, a deal the inmate won by reporting another prisoner's escape that had gone undetected for two days. The 3-2 ruling came less than two hours after the Adnan Syed asks court to reconsider backing victim's family 04/26/2023 12:51pm • Attorneys for Adnan Syed filed a motion Wednesday asking a Maryland appellate court to reconsider its recent decision to reinstate his decadesold murder conviction and life sentence, a ruling that upheld arguments from the victim’s family claiming a lower court violated their rights. Syed, whos Brazil's Bolsonaro gives testimony to police on Jan. 8 riot 04/26/2023 12:42pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gave testimony at the Federal Police headquarters Wednesday about his actions related to the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia. One week after his leftist successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office, Bols South Africa: Ex-CEO won't name politicians in utility probe 04/26/2023 10:27am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The former chief executive of South African power utility Eskom refused Wednesday to name high-ranking politicians allegedly involved in corrupt activities at the state-owned firm that are partly responsible for the country’s worsening power blackouts. Andre de Ruyter appeare Poland: prosecutors open probe into opposition leader Tusk 04/26/2023 08:51am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into alleged abuse of power by opposition leader Donald Tusk when he was prime minister a decade ago, a step that critics of the ruling authorities are describing as politically motivated due to its timing ahead of elections lat Singapore executes man for helping buy 2 pounds of cannabis 04/26/2023 08:24am • HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence. Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to death in 2018 for abetting the trafficking of 1 Iran court issues $312.9M judgment against US amid tensions 04/26/2023 06:14am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian court issued a $312.9 million judgment against the United States over a 2017 Islamic State-claimed attack on Tehran, authorities said Wednesday, the latest judicial action between the nations amid their decadeslong enmity. Iran's state-run IRNA news a Prosecutors now doubt imprisoned mother killed her children 04/26/2023 05:06am • CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prosecutors acknowledged to a government inquiry Wednesday that new scientific and genetic evidence left reasonable doubt that an Australian mother deliberately killed her four children 20 years after she was convicted of doing so. A retired judge is hearing final submis Coalition taps DOJ in fight over possible historic cemetery in Prince William Co. 04/26/2023 04:56am • The Department of Justice is being asked to step into a battle over land that one organization says is home to the final resting place of people who lived in the Broad Run, Virginia, community of Thoroughfare. Frank Washington said his family was buried in a cemetery on the land now owned by a br Florida's killer clown case finally ends with plea deal 04/25/2023 05:45pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A clown came to Marlene Warren's door on a May morning in 1990, handed her carnations and balloons and then shot her dead in front of her son. On Tuesday, her husband’s second wife finally pleaded guilty to being the killer, closing a case that is strange even by Flo Judge drops Parkland school superintendent's perjury case 04/25/2023 04:45pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A judge dismissed a perjury charge Tuesday against a former Florida school superintendent accused of lying to a grand jury that investigated events surrounding the 2018 Parkland high school shooting, which left 17 dead. The case against former Broward County superinten More sanctions for deadly fentanyl if bill becomes law 04/25/2023 03:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial penalties on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine — turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world. Now, the federal agency is facing increasi