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Man in Northridge standoff arrested in girlfriend's slaying
A man involved in a Friday morning standoff with police in a Northridge home after allegedly shooting his girlfriend to death was arrested on suspicion of murder, police said. The man, who has not been identified, was arrested after the standoff, during...
Tags: Crimes, Murder, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Police Department
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Northridge standoff with man suspected of killing girlfriend ends
A man who was holed up in a Northridge home after allegedly shooting his girlfriend to death has been taken into custody, police said Friday. Police rushed to the neighborhood near Kenya Street and Baton Rouge Avenue just south of the 118 Freeway...Tags: Shootings, Los Angeles Police Department
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British government apologizes for colonial abuses in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya — It was not quite a direct apology and it came at least 50 years late. But the British government's "sincere regret" for colonial abuses of Kenyans during the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s and its agreement to pay $30 million in...
Tags: Trials, Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Government, National Government
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Britain to pay compensation to Kenyans for colonial past
LONDON -- The British government settled a long fought legal battle over its colonial past Thursday with the announcement that it will pay compensation to Kenyans harmed by the suppression of the militant Mau Mau movement from 1952 to 1963. More than 5,...
Tags: National Government, Government, United Kingdom, Politics
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In Kenya, two Iranians get life in prison for plotting attacks
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranian nationals convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets to life in prison. Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi were arrested in June 2012 and led officials to a...
Tags: Punishment, Pakistan, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System
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Attack on French soldier seems to be terrorist act, officials say
PARIS — An attack on a French soldier who was stabbed in the neck while patrolling outside a Paris train station appears to have been an act of terrorism, but there are no clear links to the hacking death of a British soldier in London last week,...
Tags: Police Arrests, Paris (France), Africa, Terrorism, Francois Hollande
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Kenya's new president sworn in amid divisions
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The swearing-in ceremony Tuesday for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, already one of the country's richest and most powerful men, involved pomp, a 21-gun salute, an old Bible and controversy. A dozen heads of state attended as Kenyatta...
Tags: International Criminal Court, Elections, Arts and Culture, Culture, Government
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Marking Easter, Pope Francis keeps it simple
LONDON – In the first Easter message of his pontificate, Pope Francis appealed to Christians and others Sunday to turn “war into peace” in parts of the world caught in seemingly intractable conflict, from the Middle East to the Korean...
Tags: North Korea, Easter, Francis I, Juvenile Delinquency, Prisons
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Court confirms election of Kenyatta as Kenya's president
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The second-place finisher in Kenya’s recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Saturday that his chief rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, was the rightful winner. The court ruled the election was free...
Tags: International Criminal Court, Elections, War Crimes, North Korea, International Law
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Western governments say Nigerian extremists executed 7 hostages
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Western governments Sunday reported that a violent Islamist militia in northern Nigeria had likely executed seven foreign hostages, deaths that the governments called barbaric and cold-blooded. The group, Ansaru, announced Saturday...
Tags: Goodluck Jonathan, France, Government, National Government, William Hague
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Charges are dropped against Kenyan suspect
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.NAIROBI, Kenya -- The International Criminal Court's prosecutor dropped charges of crimes against humanity against a fellow defendant of Kenya's president-elect Monday, raising questions about whether the case against Uhuru Kenyatta will hold up as he...Tags: Trials, Elections, International Law, Defendants, International Court or Tribunal
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Kenya election over, dispute over outcome heads to Supreme Court
NAIROBI, Kenya -- As Kenya faced another disputed election Sunday, the country passed an important test: Despite outrage among many Kenyans over a result they saw as flawed, there was no major outbreak of violence. A massive deployment of security...
Tags: Electronics, Africa, Elections, Science and Technology, Politics
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