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Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
A Russian court has denied parole to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. In its ruling Thursday, the court accepted a claim by prosecutors that Maria Alekhina had systematically disobeyed prison authorities and failed to repent for her crime, Russian media reported. Alekhina went on a hunger strike ...
Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts
Russia's top military officer has voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel cuts in non-nuclear precision weapons. Thursday's statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with Washington. President ...
Car bomb kills 12 in southwest Pakistan
A Taliban car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by Islamic militancy and a violent separatist insurgency, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, came the same day as fighting ...
Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
President Barack Obama is set to at least partially lift the veil of secrecy surrounding U.S.-directed drone strikes around the world, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security. On the eve of the president's speech at the National Defense ...
Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment
The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members. About 1,400 voting members of BSA's national council are to cast ...
US unemployment aid applications fall to 340K
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week, further evidence that the job market is slowly returning to health. The Labor Department says applications declined to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, down from 363,000 the previous week. The less volatile four-week average ticked down 500 to ...
Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets
The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States. Ibragim Todashev, 27, was a mixed martial arts fighter who had ...
20 killed in 2 simultaneous car bombs in Niger
Niger's defense minister announced that 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives inside a military installation in the city of Agadez on Thursday. Minister of Defense Mahamadou Karidjo told reporters that a simultaneous explosion over a hundred miles ...
West Bank and romance prominent in 'Omar'
One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot. But the film's lead actor, Adam Bakri, says the location or political motif isn't that important. "The fact is that it ...
German opposition party marks bittersweet 150th
Germany's main opposition party marked a bittersweet 150th birthday on Thursday — trailing badly in polls ahead of September elections and hearing praise for its efforts to reform Europe's biggest economy from French President Francois Hollande, a recent left-wing winner who has lost his luster. Hollande was the star guest ...
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