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BOGOTA, May 16 (UPI) -- A Colombian woman was arrested in Bogota with a 10-foot long boa constrictor in her bag, police said.
PARIS, May 16 (UPI) -- A man in his 60s committed suicide Thursday in front of nursery school students at a school in central Paris, French police said.
PEDRALBA, Spain, May 16 (UPI) -- A grandfather in Pedralba, Spain, was attacked with an ax by two of his neighbors over a video recorded on a cell phone, officials said.
TRIPOLI, Libya, May 16 (UPI) -- As many as 25 bodies have been found in an area of mass graves in the northern Libyan city of Tawergha, officials say.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 16 (UPI) -- A suicide bomb attack on a pair of American military vehicles in Kabul Thursday left 16 people dead, including NATO service members, officials said.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, May 16 (UPI) -- One of two workers who died Thursday in the collapse of a shoe factory roof in Cambodia was only 15, a family member says.
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- Inmates at the Tihar Jail assaulted and slowly poisoned a defendant in the New Delhi gang rape case, his lawyer said.
CARACAS, Venezuela, May 16 (UPI) -- Venezuelan officials said they will import 50 million rolls of toilet paper to meet the country's demand.
SARAQEB, Syria, May 16 (UPI) -- Witnesses are claiming that the Syrian government dropped at least two devices containing poisonous gas in the northern town of Saraqeb.
JERUSALEM, May 16 (UPI) -- The Israeli government hopes to legalize four West Bank outposts on state land, a High Court of Justice document shows.
CAIRO, May 16 (UPI) -- Three suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Egypt planned to use car bombs in attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, investigators said.
PARIS, May 16 (UPI) -- Israel has the highest rate of poverty among all developed countries, a report released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says.
BAGHDAD, May 16 (UPI) -- Multiple car bomb explosions killed at least 12 people and injured 18 others Thursday in Baghdad, officials said.
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, May 16 (UPI) -- At least five people died Thursday as cyclone Mahasen began crossing Bangladesh's southern coast, officials said.
CAIRO, May 16 (UPI) -- Assailants abducted seven Egyptian security personnel at gunpoint in the northern Sinai Peninsula early Thursday, officials said.
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Masoud Esmailpour Jouybari of Iran and Reece Humphrey of the United States compete in an international wrestling match at Vanderbilt Hall inside of Grand Central Terminal New York City on May 15, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo