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Dutch anger swells at treatment of Ukraine bodies 07/21/2014 06:55pm • MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The families and friends of Dutch citizens blown out of the sky above Ukraine poured out their grief and anger Monday at a meeting with their monarch and political leaders."This terrible disaster has left a deep wound in our society," a som Suspect in Irish soldiers' deaths arrested in US 07/21/2014 06:40pm • DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Federal agents have arrested a man who the Irish government says is a suspect in the abduction, torture and killing of two Irish soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon 34 years ago.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Bazzi, 71, on Tue Johns Hopkins settles patients' suits for $190 million 07/21/2014 01:19pm • By JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) -- Johns Hopkins Hospital has agreed to a $190 million settlement with more than 8,000 patients of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and videotaped women's bodies in the examining room with a pen-like camera he wore around his neck, la Ireland: Mich. man held a suspect in UN slayings 07/21/2014 09:58am • DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Federal agents have arrested a man the Irish government calls a suspect in the abduction, torture and killing of two Irish soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon 34 years ago.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesdsay arrested Mahmoud Bazzi at hi Head of Jamaica rights group quits in sex ed flap 07/21/2014 05:32am • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- The head of Jamaica's most prominent human rights group resigned Sunday amid a lingering controversy over a sex education program that the organization introduced in children's group homes.Kay Osborne, a former manager of a local TV station who became executive director of Bosnians bury kin found in wartime mass grave 07/20/2014 08:47pm • AMEL EMRIC Associated Press KOZARAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnian families on Sunday buried the remains of 283 Muslims and one Roman Catholic Croat who were killed at the start of the Bosnian war of 1992-95.The bodies were laid out in green coffins in a sports field in Kozarac, where thousands Panel supports early release for 46K drug felons 07/20/2014 12:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of federal inmates serving time for drug crimes may be eligible for early release under a cost-cutting proposal adopted Friday that would dramatically reduce the nation's prison population over time.The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which earlier this year voted to Panel supports early release for 46K drug felons 07/20/2014 12:28pm • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of thousands of federal inmates serving time for drug crimes may be eligible for early release under a cost-cutting proposal adopted Friday that would dramatically reduce the nation's prison population over time.The U.S. Sentencing Commission, whi Given life term, drug offender hopes for clemency 07/20/2014 08:54am • BY SHARON COHEN AP National Writer GREENVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- From the very start, Scott Walker refused to believe he'd die in prison.Arrested and jailed at 25, then sent to prison two years later, Walker couldn't imagine spending his life behind bars for dealing drugs. But the years passed, his appea 5 things to know about drug laws, prison sentences 07/20/2014 12:02am • SHARON COHEN AP National Writer Decades of tough drug laws have contributed to a dramatic rise in the federal prison population, with inmates serving more time behind bars. The Obama administration recently encouraged nonviolent federal inmates -- most of them drug offenders -- to apply for early re Outrage after Indian girl, 6, raped at her school 07/19/2014 09:25am • NEW DELHI (AP) -- Thousands of people angry over alleged police inaction after a 6-year-old girl was raped at her school in southern India rallied Saturday to demand that authorities arrest those responsible for the attack.More than 4,000 parents and relatives of children who attend the school in Ba US: Can't rule out Russian role in plane downing 07/19/2014 07:50am • Editor's Note: Read the latest on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in WTOP's Live Blog EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that the United States cannot rule out that Russia he Credible probe sought in downing of Malaysian jet 07/19/2014 05:28am • Editor's Note: Read the latest on the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in WTOP's Live Blog DMITRY LOVETSKY Associated Press ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (AP) -- World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfe Iowa rejects juvenile mandatory minimum sentences 07/18/2014 05:03pm • DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that juveniles cannot be given mandatory minimum sentences, making it the first state to interpret federal court directives that broadly.More than 100 prisoners who as juvenile offenders were tried as adults and Discoveries convince family pregnant woman is dead 07/18/2014 02:20pm • OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press MAKAWAO, Hawaii (AP) -- Four days into searching for her pregnant half-sister, Phaedra Wais trudged through a rugged, wet jungle on Maui to chase a new lead in the disappearance.Following a locator ping from a cellphone, the 16-year-old found a skirt, shirt and bra stai