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An imprisoned journalist in Belarus designated a political prisoner by a leading rights group 03/26/2024 04:33pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A prominent journalist in Belarus was designated a political prisoner on Tuesday by the country's leading human rights group following his conviction on charges widely seen as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent. Ihar Karnei, who used to write for Radio Free Europe/Radi Boston to pay $4.6M to settle wrongful death suit stemming from police killing of mentally ill man 03/26/2024 04:32pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� The city of Boston will pay about $4.6 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the police killing of a mentally ill man in 2016. The mother of Terrence Coleman, 31, filed the federal lawsuit six years ago. Hope Coleman had called for an ambulance to take her son to t Alcohol permit lifted at Indy bar where shooting killed 1 and wounded 5, including police officer 03/26/2024 04:31pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana officials revoked the liquor license Tuesday of an Indianapolis bar where one person was killed and five others, including a police officer, were wounded during a weekend shooting. The Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission voted unanimously to revoke a liquor license e Nevada Supreme Court will take another look at Chasing Horse's request to dismiss sex abuse charges 03/26/2024 03:48pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The full seven-member Nevada Supreme Court will reconsider Nathan Chasing Horse's request to dismiss a sprawling indictment accusing him of leading a cult, taking underage wives and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls. It's the latest development in a lengthy series of leg Hunger deepens as relentless gang violence targets Haiti's capital 03/26/2024 03:01pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti���s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies across the road from the country���s largest public hospital. The attacks that began Monday and continued into early Tuesday mark nearly a mo Kenya starts to hand over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult 03/26/2024 02:36pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Kenya's government on Tuesday began handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country. Exhumed bodies from a vast rural area in coastal Kenya have shown signs of starvation and strangulation. Cult With its soldiers mired in Gaza, Israel fights a battle at home over drafting the ultra-Orthodox 03/26/2024 02:21pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, broad exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a deep divide in the country and rattled the government coalition, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu���s fellow War Cabinet members staunchly oppos Pickup truck driver charged for role in crash that left tractor-trailer dangling from bridge 03/26/2024 01:28pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� The driver of a pickup truck has been charged for his role in a four-vehicle crash that sent a tractor-trailer through a guard rail where it was left dangling over the Ohio River, according to court records. Court records show the pickup driver was charged with four counts o Pakistani police say 5 Chinese nationals and their local driver were killed in a suicide attack 03/26/2024 11:19am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said. The attack happened in Shangla, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, lo Austrian police given small gifts after protecting Russian Embassy, told to reject them in future 03/26/2024 09:48am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Austrian police officers who provided security around the Russian Embassy on the day of that country's presidential election were given small presents as they left, Vienna police said Tuesday. Police were told to reject such gifts in the future. Receiving the gifts from the Russians Timeline of the Assange legal saga as he faces further delay in bid to avoid extradition to the US 03/26/2024 09:21am • LONDON (AP) ��� After fighting for more than a decade to avoid being sent to the U.S., WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing further delays in learning whether he can make a new legal challenge against his extradition. Assange, 52, faces charges related to his organization's publication of a hu US and Cyprus will sign a deal to fight money laundering and evasion of Russian sanctions 03/26/2024 09:04am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� The United States and Cyprus said Tuesday they���re formalizing their collaboration in fighting money laundering, sanctions evasion and other financial crimes with an agreement offering Cypriot law enforcement authorities U.S. expertise. The FBI and Cypriot police will sign Indian police detain dozens of protesters demanding release of top opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal 03/26/2024 04:43am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Indian police detained dozens of opposition protesters Tuesday to stop them from marching to Prime Minister Narendra Modi���s residence to demand the release of their leader and top elected official of New Delhi arrested last week in a bribery case. Nearly 300 supporters of Arvind New York City police officer fatally shot during traffic stop 03/26/2024 01:07am • A New York City police officer was shot and killed Monday during a traffic stop, the city���s mayor said. It marked the first slaying of an NYPD officer in two years. ���We lost one of our sons today and it is extremely painful. It is extremely painful,��� Mayor Eric Adams said, addressing reporters Scammer claimed to be a psychic, witch and Irish heiress, victims say as she faces extradition to UK 03/26/2024 12:09am • BOSTON (AP) ��� She has crisscrossed the country saying she's an Irish heiress, a psychic and good friends with a movie star in order to run scores of scams, her victims say. But now Marianne Smyth is in a Maine jail awaiting a hearing next month that will decide whether she can be extradited to th