Assange to accept arrest if UN panel rules against him
By GREGORY KATZ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest by British police if a U.N. working group investigating his claims decides that the three years he has…
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Syrian TV: Army breaks long rebel siege of Shiite villages
By BASSEM MROUE and JAMEY KEATEN Syrian troops and allied militiamen blasted their way into two Shiite villages in northern Syria on Wednesday, breaking a long-running rebel siege during a…
Cosby’s lawyers push to get sexual assault case thrown out
By MARYCLAIRE DALE The former district attorney who declined a decade ago to prosecute Bill Cosby testified Tuesday that he hoped the decision would free the comedian to testify in…
Israel’s Netanyahu warns Gaza militants against attacking
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza on Sunday that his country will retaliate with “greater force” than deployed in the 2014 Gaza…
France calls on US to lift economic embargo on Cuba
By SYLVIE CORBET France called on the U.S. to lift the economic embargo against Cuba during a historic state visit Monday by the Caribbean island’s president aimed at boosting economic…
For Brazil’s rich and poor, disparate response to Zika
By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment…
Officials: Man who led escape had help from jail teacher
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and ROBERT JABLON he probable mastermind in the brazen escape of three inmates from a California jail had help from a woman whose English classes he was…
Iran says it flew drone over US aircraft carrier
By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Iran flew a surveillance drone over a U.S. aircraft carrier and took “precise” photographs of it as part of an ongoing naval drill, state…