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Hitman for drug lord Pablo Escobar dies in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) -- Pablo Escobar's most notorious hitman, known by the nickname Popeye, died on Thursday at age 57…

Indian lawmaker gets life for raping teen in landmark case

  NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- An Indian lawmaker was sentenced to life Friday for raping a teenager whose plight…

UPDATED: Multiple injured in shooting at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor base

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- At least three people were injured, two of them critically, when a gunman opened…

Mexico hunts cartel gunmen after deadly firefight kills 22

  by Julio Cesar Aguilar Agence France Presse VILLA UNION, Mexico (AFP) -- Mexican forces hunted Monday for a drug…

10 wounded in shooting in busy New Orleans tourist area

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Ten people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in New Orleans' French Quarter, a…

10 wounded in shooting in busy New Orleans tourist area

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Ten people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in New Orleans' French Quarter, a…

Fury as Singapore hangs Malaysian ‘drug mule’

SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) -- Singapore hanged a Malaysian heroin trafficker on Friday, despite appeals from his homeland to stay a…

Son of former German president stabbed to death

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) -- An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von…

Trump issues pardons in US war crimes cases

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a former soldier convicted of murder and a…

Gunman in US school shooting dies as police puzzled over motive

  by Andrew MARSZAL Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- The teenager who gunned down classmates at…

UPDATED: Two killed in California school shooting, teen in custody

by Frederic J. BROWN with Andrew MARSZAL in Los Angeles SANTA CLARITA, United States (AFP) --  A teenage boy gunned…

51 children injured in chemical attack at China kindergarten

  BEIJING, China (AFP) -- More than 50 people, mostly children, were injured by a man who broke into a…

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