The spokesman for Syria’s Foreign Ministry posted an article on his Facebook page that quoted him as denying the report that senior government figures, including the brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad, had been killed.

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Syrian Officials’ Deaths Reported, and Denied

Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Alex Blueford, who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son, is not protected by the Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause, the court ruled in a 6 to 3 decision. Read full article > >

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The suspect made remarks implicating himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who vanished in SoHo on his way to school and who is believed to have been killed, the police said on Thursday.

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The sentence given to one of Constable Stephen Carroll’s killers is being referred to the Court of Appeal by the director of public prosecutions.

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The second US drone strike in 24 hours kills eight people in a volatile tribal area of north-west Pakistan, security officials say.

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At least 10 alleged militants were killed on Thursday when an American drone struck a compound in northwestern Pakistan, government officials said.

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Pakistani officials said an American strike on suspected militants in the northwest killed 10 people, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff over NATO supply routes.

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State Department cyber experts recently hacked into Web sites being used by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and substituted the group’s anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. Read full article > >

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U.S. hacks Web sites of al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen

A coroner warns of the dangers of drugs after hearing how two young friends killed in a car crash hours into the New Year had taken cocaine

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in its hunt for Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason in a ruling by tribal agency authorities in northwestern Pakistan, officials there said. Read full article > >

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Pakistani doctor who helped CIA locate bin Laden sentenced to prison for treason

A woman found battered with a rolling pin at her Hampshire home was killed in a prolonged attack involving elements of torture, a coroner says.

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Three illegal miners in South Africa digging for diamonds are killed and 15 others remain trapped after some tunnels collapse, police say.

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Across the Washington area last week, young workers from Europe arrived in droves, heading for jobs at community swimming pools. Lugging duffel bags, they filled out forms, picked up safety gear and chatted in a variety of Slavic languages, eager to plunge into a summer experience of new friends, skills and culture. Read full article > >

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Foreign students enjoy new summer job protections — but what about Americans?

Too many young people lack the social skills needed to get their first job, says a report on the issue of Neets.

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“Killing Them Softly,” Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the George V. Higgins crime novel “Cogan’s Trade,” will have its gala premiere tonight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film screened this morning for the press, who were treated to a gritty, stylized and deeply cynical genre exercise in which Brad Pitt played hardened hit man Jackie Cogan. (Pitt last worked with Dominik on “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”) Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendolsohn co-star in a film that takes its inspiration from Martin Scorsese, murder ballads and America’s recent economic crisis which, as in the movie was brought on by greed and a fatal lack of self-control.   Read full article > >

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