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KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- Afghan authorities should investigate the arrest and alleged torture of peaceful protesters by security forces, an international rights group says.
ANKARA, Turkey, May 8 (UPI) -- Turkish intelligence officials are monitoring the withdrawal of fighters from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, the deputy prime minister said.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., said he won't seek the state's open U.S. Senate seat, sending Democrats scrambling for a candidate.
CHONGQUING, China, May 8 (UPI) -- Twenty-one government officials and executives of state-owned businesses in southwest China have been caught in a sex video scandal, local officials said.
GENOA, Italy, May 8 (UPI) -- Rescue crews discovered a seventh body Wednesday following an overnight accident involving a container ship in the Italian port of Genoa, officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- At least three Afghan civilians died and a number of others were wounded after a roadside bomb exploded in Helmand province Wednesday, officials said.
WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- U.S. assistance to Somalia aims to help ensure a stable government is able to prevent terrorists from establishing a safe haven, the U.S. State Department said.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 8 (UPI) -- Alleged misconduct by coalition forces during an operation in which four insurgents were killed in Afghanistan is being investigated, officials said Wednesday.
PHOENIX, May 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Phoenix sentenced several members of a human-smuggling ring from Mexico to up to 10 years in prison.
AMETHI, India, May 8 (UPI) -- Police said they have arrested three people, including a liquor supplier, after five people died in Amethi, India, from drinking illegal alcohol.
BRUSSELS, May 8 (UPI) -- Police in three countries conducted raids and arrested 31 people suspected in a $51 million diamond heist at Brussels' Zaventem Airport, officials said.
GRANADA, Spain, May 8 (UPI) -- A Spanish man is in critical condition with burns to his lips, mouth and throat after his friend allegedly served him acid instead of wine, El Mundo reported.
MOSCOW, May 8 (UPI) -- The mother of a prisoner who escaped from a maximum-security prison in Moscow asked police during a filmed interview not to open fire on her son.
KIRKUK, Iraq, May 8 (UPI) -- At least two people died and dozens other were injured Wednesday in three bomb attacks in Kurdish areas near Kirkuk, Iraq, officials said.
LONDON, May 8 (UPI) -- Algeria's new law regulating associations appears to be a means of restricting activities by civil society, a London-based human rights group charges.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, May 8 (UPI) -- Navy prosecutors in Russia appealed the acquittal of two men blamed for the deaths of 20 people aboard the nuclear submarine Nerpa in a deadly 2008 accident.
JAKARTA, May 8 (UPI) -- Anti-terror police exchanged gunfire with suspected terrorists who may belong to a group that plotted to bomb Myanmar's embassy in Jakarta, an official said.
HJORRING, Denmark, May 8 (UPI) -- Police in Denmark said they found 30 dead dogs in a freezer at a Hjorring home that is owned by a man who was deemed unfit to have dogs on his property.
TOKYO, May 8 (UPI) -- Japan has no intention of modifying World War II apologies issued in the 1990s by the country's Socialist prime minister, a Cabinet official said.
AMMAN, Jordan, May 8 (UPI) -- Jordan's lower house of Parliament voted unanimously Wednesday to expel Israel's ambassador and recall its own ambassador from Tel Aviv, officials said.
CHARLESTON, S.C., May 8 (UPI) -- A Southwest Airlines flight made an emergency landing in South Carolina after three passengers became unruly, officials said.
VATICAN CITY, May 8 (UPI) -- Pope Francis told a group of nuns Wednesday gathered in St. Peter's Square that they should embrace their maternal side and be mothers, attendees said.
PETITCODIAC, New Brunswick, May 8 (UPI) -- Two forest fires in New Brunswick, Canada, have destroyed at least three homes and forced the evacuation of numerous others, officials said.
BAMA, Nigeria, May 8 (UPI) -- The militant Islamic sect Boko Haram is being blamed for a series of attacks that left dozens of people dead in Nigeria's Borno State, authorities said.
LOS ANGELES, May 8 (UPI) -- The couple held captive by former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner will get the lion's share of a $1 million reward, authorities said.
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