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A man who claimed to be selling Queen Elizabeth II's walking stick is sentenced for fraud 01/09/2024 12:41pm • LONDON (AP) ��� A 26-year-old man who tried to sell what he claimed was a walking stick used by the late Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced for defrauding eBay buyers. Dru Marshall, from Hampshire in southern England, claimed he was a senior footman at Windsor Castle and that the proceeds from t Suspected militants kill 2 police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwest Pakistan 01/09/2024 12:15pm • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� Suspected militants shot and killed two police officers assigned to escort polio workers in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, the second such attack in the past 24 hours on officers taking part in a nationwide anti-polio drive. The latest attack happened in Bannu, a district Cable car brought down by fallen tree in Austrian skiing area, 4 people from Denmark seriously hurt 01/09/2024 11:34am • BERLIN (AP) ��� A cable car in a western Austrian skiing region plunged up to 10 meters (about 33 feet) Tuesday in an accident apparently caused by a falling tree, seriously injuring four people from Denmark who were inside the car, police said. A tree fell on a part fixing the car to the cable of t OSCE laments Belarus' refusal to allow its monitors to observe February's parliamentary vote 01/09/2024 11:34am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� A top trans-Atlantic security and rights watchdog has criticized Belarus' refusal to allow the group to observe its parliamentary vote, saying that it defies the country's international obligations. Belarusian authorities announced Monday that they wouldn't invite observers A minivan explodes in Kabul, killing at least 3 civilians and wounding 4 others 01/09/2024 11:21am • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A bomb stuck to a minivan exploded in Afghanistan���s capital of Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least three civilians and wounding four others, a Taliban official said. Police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the explosion occurred in the eastern part of the city, in Alokhail area. Poli Movie Review: Audacious Bible-era story 'The Book of Clarence' is maybe too audacious 01/09/2024 10:10am • Somewhere between the sacred and profane, comedy, drama and satire comes ���The Book of Clarence,��� a retelling of The Greatest Story Ever Told that arrives in theaters appropriately between Christmas and Easter. It's a remarkably idiosyncratic approach by rising auteur Jeymes Samuel, who for this Irish singer Sinead O'Connor died from natural causes, coroner says 01/09/2024 10:06am • LONDON (AP) ��� Irish singer-songwriter Sin��ad O���Connor died from ���natural causes��� in July, a coroner said Tuesday. London's Metropolitan Police had said the singer's death was not considered suspicious after she was found unresponsive at a home in southeast London on July 26. O'Connor was 56 Driver in custody after crashing into White House gate 01/09/2024 08:52am • U.S. Secret Service police investigate near a vehicle that hit a security barrier at a entry point for the White House complex Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) A driver was taken into custody after their vehicle smashed into the exterior gate at the White House c Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa 01/09/2024 07:59am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� Migration activists are sounding the alarm this week about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing more migrants arrive for attempted Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and So Filipino Catholics pray for Mideast peace in massive procession venerating a black statue of Jesus 01/09/2024 07:16am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Tuesday in an annual procession in the Philippines��� capital that paraded a centuries-old black statue of Jesus. Many said they prayed for peace in the Middle East, where tens of thousands of Filipinos work NYC Mayor Eric Adams says story of firing a gun at school, recounted in his book, never happened 01/09/2024 06:56am • Even for Eric Adams, whose hardscrabble upbringing featured heavily in his rise to become mayor of New York City, the tale of his near-miss school shooting was harrowing. One day at school, Adams was hanging out with a group of friends when someone showed up with a gun, according to his 2009 book, Danish appeals court upholds guilty verdicts for 3 Iranians convicted on terror charges 01/09/2024 05:57am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A Danish appeals court on Tuesday upheld guilty verdicts for three members of an Iranian separatist group convicted of promoting terror in Iran and gathering information for an unnamed Saudi intelligence service. The three were arrested in February 2020 in the town of Ri Police name dead suspect in 3 Virginia cold cases, including 2 of the 'Colonial Parkway Murders' 01/09/2024 05:05am • A smalltime fisherman who died in 2017 has been linked to three cold-case homicides in Virginia from the 1980s, including two that were among a series of unsolved slayings of couples known as the ���Colonial Parkway Murders,��� law enforcement officials announced Monday. Virginia State Police ide Shooter kills 2 people at Minnesota motel and is later found dead, police say 01/08/2024 11:43pm • CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) ��� A shooter killed two people at a small-town Minnesota motel late Monday and the suspect was later found dead, authorities said. Police issued an alert at about 7 p.m. about an active shooter at a Super 8 motel in Cloquet and warned people in the surrounding area of Big Lake R 'Cold-blooded': 4 charged over alleged plot to smuggle AU$1.2 million in Australian reptiles 01/08/2024 11:31pm • SYDNEY (AP) ��� An Australian task force devoted to stopping illegal reptile exports announced the disruption of a ���cold-blooded and cruel��� criminal group allegedly trying to send AU$1.2 million ($808,000) worth of highly-sought native lizards and other reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong. The Wh