JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping area in Indonesia’s capital and waged gunbattles with police Thursday, leaving bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from high-rise buildings. Police said five attackers and two civilians were killed, while …
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Police detain Florence suspect after DNA analysis on condom
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) – Italian prosecutors say “decisive” DNA analysis of a condom and cigarette butt led them to arrest a Senegalese man in the death of an American woman who suffered two deadly fractures to her skull before being strangled in her Florence apartment. The naked body of Ashley …
Read More »PM says Turkish artillery hit IS positions in Iraq, Syria
CINAR, Turkey (AP) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkish artillery have attacked Islamic State group positions in Iraq and in Syria in retaliation to the suicide bombing in Istanbul which killed 10 tourists. Davutoglu said Thursday Turkish military targeted 500 extremist positions along the border with Syria and …
Read More »Israel’s Shimon Peres suffers ‘mild’ heart attack
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s 92-year-old former President Shimon Peres suffered a “mild” heart attack Thursday but was in “excellent” condition following a heart procedure, his personal physician said. Peres was rushed to a hospital near Tel Aviv from his home on Thursday morning after he fell ill with chest pains …
Read More »Hero or smuggler? Briton on trial for helping migrant girl
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – A French court must decide whether a British man who went on trial Thursday is a smuggler or a hero after he tried to spirit a 4-year-old Afghan girl from a squalid migrant camp in the French city of Calais to family members in Britain. Just …
Read More »Bowie views top daily record on Vevo, beating Adele
LOS ANGELES (AP) – David Bowie fans found a new way to be passing time after the pop star’s death: setting a single-day record for video views on Vevo. The music video service owned by Universal and Sony says views of Bowie videos hit 51 million Monday, the day after …
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