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Two of Iran's Presidential Candidates Are Wanted for Murder
The Atlantic Wire
Iran has announced the list of eight qualified candidates who have been approved to campaign for president, including two men who are suspects in a notorious 1994 terrorist attack. Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati are among the group who are looking ...

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WASHINGTON -- The D.C. police officer accused of threatening to shoot first lady Michelle Obama claimed Wednesday in a disciplinary hearing that he was joking.... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-ruberry/

He might have claimed to be from the happiest place on Earth, but police say Stephen Urquidez was living in his own little bogus world. The California man was arrested Tuesday on burglary charges, and the story is an odd one: Police say Urquidez went by the name "Stephen Disney"...

Toronto Star
Canada's ambassador to Cuba to attend Toronto man's corruption trial in Havana
Toronto Star
When Sarkis Yacoubian walks into a courtroom in Havana Thursday to face serious corruption charges that could send him to prison for 12 years, the North York businessman will have a high-powered diplomat keeping a close eye on his trial — Canada's ...
Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdownYahoo! News

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Dick Irwin, Veteran Md. Crime Reporter, Dies At 76
CBS Local
BALTIMORE (AP) — John Richard “Dick” Irwin, a retired newspaper reporter who chronicled crime in Baltimore for more than 40 years, has died. He was 76. The Baltimore Sun reports that Irwin died Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of ...

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Paul McCartney Supports Pussy Riot in Letters to Russian Authorities
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Paul McCartney has written to Russian authorities in support of Pussy Riot as one member yesterday began a hunger strike after she was barred from attending her own parole hearing in person. The former Beatle sent handwritten letters on behalf of Maria ...
Paul McCartney Writes Letters to Russian Officials Supporting Pussy RiotBillboard
Jailed Pussy Riot Member's Parole DeniedRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Paul McCartney Writes In Support Of Pussy RiotNPR
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Pussy Riot member refused parole by Russian court
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Reuters/Reuters - Jailed Pussy Riot punk rock group member Maria Alyokhina is seen on a monitor, as she takes part in a video conference from the penal colony, inside the courtroom during a hearing in the town …more of Berezniki May 22, 2013.

GROZNY, Russia — The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

Pair jailed for murder of stepson of gangland celebrity Dave Courtney
The Independent
Pinto, 33, and getaway driver Robert Bleach, 46, both of Greenwich, south-east London, were found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey last week. They were sentenced using a videolink following fears of disturbances involving Pinto and members of his ...

Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
MiamiHerald.com
MOSCOW -- A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith have sent, urging Russia's courts to free Maria Alekhina and the ...

Singh pledges corruption crackdown
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New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged on Thursday to crack down on corruption in the defence sector after a string of recent graft scandals left his government facing renewed calls to step down. The premier said he was committed to ...

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

NPR (blog)
Triple Murder May Link Tsarnaev And Man Killed In Florida
NPR (blog)
Ibragim Todashev, the 27-year-old man shot and killed after he allegedly attacked an FBI agent Wednesday in Orlando, may have been involved with Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple murder. As NPR's Dina Temple-Raston ...
Official: Dead Boston bombings suspect involved in 2011 slayingsCNN
Police kill man linked to Boston suspects, triple murderUSA TODAY
Tamerlan Tsarnaev Suspected in Triple MurderWall Street Journal
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STOCKHOLM — Groups of youths have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-craggs/

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Paul McCartney's Plea for Pussy Riot
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Paul McCartney's website is featuring a series of letters under his name requesting compassion and parole for two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who are serving time for hooliganism.

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The Economist (blog)
MOST of the roughly 2.2m incarcerated Americans will eventually be freed. Those who remain in contact with loved ones on the outside are less likely, studies show, to return to a life of crime after serving their time. Much as voters hate criminals ...

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-mccormack/

CTV News
Corruption squad raids NDG borough offices
CTV News
Quebec's permanent anti-corruption squad carried out at least three raids in Montreal on Wednesday. UPAC would not confirm the locations, but officers were spotted at the offices of the Cote des Neiges-Notre Dame de Grace borough. CTV Montreal ...
Anti-corruption raids at borough offices in CDN-NDGCBC.ca

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Deadlocked jurors return to the deliberations room Thursday after Judge Sherry Stephens told them to keep trying to reach a unanimous decision to the final... David Lohr http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lohr/

The toughest-in-the-nation gun-control law passed in Connecticut in the wake of Sandy Hook shooting is getting its first legal challenge—but state officials don't seem worried. The Connecticut Citizen's Defense League and Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen have, with an assist from the NRA, filed a lawsuit that claims the law...