TEHRAN, Iran – A senior Iranian official says authorities with access to classified information will be banned from using smartphones. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, who heads an Iranian military unit in charge of combatting sabotage, is quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency as saying Saturday that instructions for the …
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Police in South Australia are searching for the body of a surfer who is believed to have been killed in a fatal shark attack on Tuesday. The 55-year-old man was surfing around 10:20 a.m. near Granites Beach, south of Streaky Bay on the Eyre Peninsula, when witnesses reported seeing a …
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New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat, is calling for a “clear distinction” to be made between Israel’s citizens and the country’s government as there has been a rising number of cases of antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world amid the war between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists. …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday that authorizes more than 1,000 additional military and police personnel for the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic. The resolution follows up on a request by the U.N. secretary-general in January for another 1,030 peacekeepers to …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An American professor at a university in the United Arab Emirates was one of two people killed when their bicycles were hit by a car in the city of Sharjah, north of Dubai. The American University of Sharjah said Tuesday that associate professor of history …
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LONDON – British police have detained a man who spent the night on the roof of the Palace of Westminster on suspicion of criminal damage and trespassing. Scotland Yard said Sunday it was too early to know why the 23-year-old made his way to the top of Neo-Gothic masterpiece that …
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PARIS – A man and a boy featured in a chilling Islamic State propaganda video showing the killing of a Palestinian have been identified as French citizens, and investigators are looking into whether the man is related to an extremist who attacked a Jewish school in southern France in 2012, …
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Swedish artist Lars Vilks, the main speaker at a seminar in Copenhagen targeted by a gunman a month ago, has received a freedom of speech prize. Denmark’s Free Press Society said Vilks received its annual award on Saturday for his “staunch fearlessness.” The 68-year-old has received numerous …
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ISTANBUL – A Turkish government official says that authorities are holding a 21-year-old British woman who was suspected of trying to travel to conflict zones in Syria. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of government rules against speaking without prior authorization. The woman was detained at a bus …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s top cop says he will send more officers into island hot spots to combat a worrying uptick in homicides. Police Commissioner Carl Williams said Thursday that “there are persons among us who have become killing machines.” Last year, Jamaica saw double-digit decreases in every crime category, …
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