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South Africa: 8 gold miners shot dead
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police on Monday searched for the killers of eight gold miners who were found shot dead at an illegal shaft on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg.
Two of the bodies were found underground and the motive…
Jailed Al Jazeera journalists convicted in Egypt
(CNN) -- Three Al Jazeera English journalists were convicted Monday of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood in a ruling that immediately outraged journalists and activists around the world.
The journalists, Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher…
5 dead in shooting on South Korean military outpost
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A South Korean soldier on Saturday shot and killed five people and wounded five others at a military outpost, an official with the South Korean Army said.
The location is in the northeast of the country in…
Egypt court upholds 183 death sentences
(CNN) -- An Egyptian court upheld the death sentences against Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 182 of the group's supporters Saturday.
They were among hundreds of people found guilty in April of taking part in a deadly attack on…
13 attackers die in assault on police station in ethnic Muslim region of China
(CNN) -- Thirteen people died while attacking a police station in China's Uyghur region of Xinjiang Saturday, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported.
Three police officers were also injured, when the attackers crashed a truck laden with…
World Refugee Day: 50 million forced from their homes worldwide, U.N. says
(CNN) -- More than 50 million people worldwide currently are refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced within their own countries, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday, in a new report released to mark World Refugee Day.
That figure…
Pope says no to legalizing recreational drugs
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis condemned the legalization of recreational drugs as a flawed and failed experiment on Friday, lending his voice to a debate which is raging from the US to Uruguay and beyond.
Francis told delegates to a…
Blast at Nigerian soccer viewing center kills men, young boys
Kano, Nigeria (CNN) -- Tuesday's explosion at a soccer viewing centerin northeastern Nigeria claimed the lives of several men and young boys watching the Brazil-Mexico World Cup match.
There are conflicting reports of the number of people…
Outside group tells governments where to search for Flight 370
Washington (CNN) -- The doubters have spoken.
A group of independent experts -- who prodded authorities to release satellite data on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- says it thinks it knows the approximate location of the missing aircraft.…
Dozens of Indonesians missing after boat sinks off Malaysia
(CNN) -- More than 30 people are missing after a boat carrying 97 Indonesians sank in waters off Malaysia's west coast, Indonesian authorities said.
The vessel, reportedly carrying undocumented migrant workers heading for Aceh in…
Rape, dislocations, concussions some of the abuse wrought on boy naval recruits
(CNN) -- Rape by mop handle, smashed teeth, broken bones, lacerated faces, concussions and dislocations. That's a short list of sexual exploitation and physical maltreatment that teen boys suffered at a naval training school in Australia.…
Second boat in 2 days sinks off Malaysia
(CNN) -- A small overcrowded boat sank off the coast of Malaysia early Thursday, a maritime official said. It's the second boat to go down in two days.
Eighteen passengers have been rescued, and the search continues for nine others who are…
89-year-old Philadelphia man accused of war crimes as Nazi death-camp guard
(CNN) -- An alleged former Nazi camp guard who has lived in the United States since the 1950s is facing possible extradition to Germany following his arrest in Philadelphia, authorities said Wednesday.
Federal authorities are moving to…
Michael Schumacher out of coma and transferred to rehab
(CNN) -- Former F1 driver Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has been transferred from a hospital in Grenoble, France, where he had been admitted after a skiing accident last year, his management said in a statement Monday.…
Eight suspected Islamic militants arrested in Spain
Madrid (CNN) -- Spanish police arrested eight suspected Islamic militants in Madrid in predawn raids Monday, for allegedly recruiting and sending radical fighters to aid the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Interior…