TUAL, Indonesia — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday after a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island. After 17 hours overnight at sea, the men, mostly from Myanmar, filed off the boats and walked to the site of their new […]
Gunshots every night, burned-down businesses and corpses up to a half-dozen a day used to define the neighborhood of Mountain View on the eastern hillsides of Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. But not anymore. Now, the nights are filled with barefoot soccer matches under streetlights or block parties that bring together former rivals from local gangs. No […]
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Mohamed ElBaradei, the No. 2 man in Egypt’s embattled interim government, abruptly resigned Wednesday in an apparent split with the nation’s leader, as fighting intensified between security forces and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. In a resignation letter sent to Interim President Adly Mansour as the day’s death toll from clashes throughout Egypt mounted, ElBaradei […]
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Police in Virginia believe they’ve solved a double-homicide case that went cold a few years back after a local rapper was found to have recorded a song in which he allegedly brags about committing the crime. Antwain “Twain Gotti” Steward was arrested earlier this month and charged with killing Christopher Horton, 16, and Brian Dean, […]
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