CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio – Footage recorded by police body cameras shows a woman saying she had medical problems and didn’t want to die in an Ohio jail cell about 15 hours before she was found dead there. Northeast Ohio Media Group (http://bit.ly/1NnfHsd ) reports the footage shows 37-year-old Ralkina Jones …
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NEW DELHI – Food and drinks giant Nestle is hopeful of selling Maggi noodles in India again after a court ordered fresh testing of the popular snack which was banned across India for unsafe levels of lead. The Mumbai High Court on Thursday ruled that Nestle India will be free …
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NEW YORK – Police say three men hoping to find discarded valuables in New York City’s hot and putrid sewer system have been arrested — after coming out empty-handed. Two of them were nabbed after emerging from a manhole in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush neighborhood Thursday. Police say the third suspect, …
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BEIRUT – Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says security forces have conducted several raids near the coastal southern city of Sidon in search of suspects following the arrest of a hard-line Sunni cleric. NNA says security forces are acting quickly Sunday following the arrest of Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir so that …
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BERLIN – Police in western Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a store selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for a prize contest — yet left the suds themselves untouched. Essen police said Tuesday the thieves broke into …
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PRAGUE – Slovakian President Andrej Kiska has undergone a surgery at a clinic in the neighboring Czech Republic. The presidential office in Bratislava says Thursday’s endoscopic operation at the clinic in the western Czech city of Plzen deals with an unspecified painful problem at a hip joint. It was recommended …
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ALBANY, N.Y. – Jurors are deliberating on whether an upstate New York man actually plotted to kill Muslims with a mobile X-ray device or was just a big talker unhappy with American political and social trends and led along by the FBI. Industrial mechanic Glendon Scott Crawford could face 25 …
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CONCORD, N.H. – A prisoner in New Hampshire is suing the state after he was placed in secure housing for failing to shave his thick, bushy beard in violation of prison rules. A federal judge in July ordered prison officials to give 35-year-old Frank Staples a lower security classification and …
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia has executed four more prisoners, bringing the number of people put to death since January to 113. The Interior Ministry says the four executions took place Wednesday. Three were Saudi men convicted of murder while the fourth was a Syrian national found guilty of …
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UNITED NATIONS – Two U.N. experts are appealing to Guatemala’s judicial authorities to “prevent any further attempt at interference, obstruction of justice or manipulation of the law” in the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt and a former intelligence chief. Thursday’s statement by the experts on genocide prevention …
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