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US urges court to reimpose Boston bomber’s death sentence

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BOSTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev despite...

IS-linked group says Boko Haram leader in Nigeria is dead

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The leader of Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, according to a jihadi organization linked to the...

Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah...

Gaza’s bereaved civilians fear justice will never come

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The al-Kawlaks, a family of four generations living next door to each other in downtown Gaza City, were utterly...

Report: Nashville police could have done more with bomb tip

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville police could have done a better job of following up on a 2019 tip about bomb-making activity by the man...

Officer who tackled Boston Marathon bomber retires

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WATERTOWN, Mass. — A suburban Boston police officer who became a national hero in 2013 when he tackled one of the Boston Marathon bombers...

3 jailed over 2017 Barcelona attacks by Islamist extremists

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MADRID — A Spanish court on Thursday imposed prison sentences ranging from 8 to 53 years on the three surviving members of an extremist...

Black leaders decry sentence for man who targeted protesters

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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Black leaders called Thursday for federal prosecutors to file hate crime charges after a judge gave a lenient sentence to...

Bomb targeting Islamist leader’s car kills 6 in Pakistan

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QUETTA, Pakistan — Six people were killed and several others were wounded Friday when a powerful roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying a...

France’s top court: Canadian to face trial for 1980 bombing

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PARIS — France’s top court has upheld a ruling ordering a Lebanese-Canadian academic to stand trial over a deadly 1980 bombing outside a Paris...