Islamic State group threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages
By JON GAMBRELL and MARI YAMAGUCHI The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages Tuesday unless they receive $200 million in 72 hours, directly demanding the ransom from…
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To counter terror, Europe’s police reconsider their arms
By LORI HINNANT One was a young policewoman, unarmed on the outskirts of Paris and felled by an assault rifle. Her partner, also without weapons, could do nothing to stop…
Indonesia rejects foreign appeals, executes 6 drug convicts
By NINIEK KARMINI Indonesia brushed aside last-minute appeals by foreign leaders and executed by firing squad six people convicted of drug trafficking, including five foreigners, sending a message that the…
Secret Service: Shots fired outside Bidens’ Delaware home
By KEN THOMAS The U.S. Secret Service said Sunday that multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday night. The…
Kentucky teens on alleged crime spree captured in Florida
Sonny Gibson Book Signing 18165 The Early Negro History in Kansas City Two teenage sweethearts suspected in a crime spree of stolen vehicles and pilfered checks across the South have…
Court upholds Paris police ban of anti-Islamist rally
By GREG KELLER and RAF CASERTA French court has upheld the Paris police chief’s order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France’s worst terrorism…
Afghan officials say 5 arrested for Pakistan school massacre
By RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan security services have arrested five men in connection with the massacre at a Pakistan military school last month that killed 150 people, most of them children,…
Europe Terror: A tale of 2 separate but similar plots
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG France and Belgium have been rocked by back-to-back events linked to terrorism, but the sole connection for now seems to be their common objective: to strike a…