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The crimes gave investigators no reason to suspect a link. In Ottawa, a burglar was stealing lingerie in a middle-class neighbourhood, careful to break in when no one was home. In Tweed, 200 kilometres west, […] […]

WICHITA, Kan.—A federal grand jury is investigating whether last year’s murder of a Kansas abortion doctor was connected to a broader case involving radical anti-abortion activists, a federal law enforcement official familiar with the case […] […]

GEORGETOWN, Guyana—Police charged a woman and her lover with murder Friday, five days after finding the body of the woman’s 16-year-old daughter stuffed in a suitcase in a shallow creek. Bibi Sharmina Gopaul and Jarvis […] […]

DUBLIN—Ireland’s police force says its detectives have arrested nine suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents and seized weapons. Friday’s arrests follow a British government decision to raise its warning of possible attacks by IRA splinter groups […] […]

KABUL – Secret high-level negotiations between the Afghan Government and the Taleban leadership aimed at ending the war have begun, diplomatic sources have revealed. Meetings which included delegates of the Quetta Shura, the Taleban’s Pakistan-based […] […]

LONDON—A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up an international flight above the United States did not become radicalized during his years as an undergraduate in London, the university where he studied said Thursday. […] […]

The head of Chicago’s police department is urging Canada’s public safety minister to deny a former Toronto librarian’s assistant entry to Canada because he shot an officer in 1969. Gary Freeman, 61, formerly known as […] […]

IRAN has reportedly hanged eight drug traffickers in a prison in the southeastern city of Kerman. Fars news agency reported the first names of the eight, and did not say when the executions were carried […] […]

A WEALTHY British lawyer who was shot dead by police during an armed siege at his London home in May 2008 was killed lawfully, an inquest has ruled. Divorce specialist Mark Saunders, 32, was drunk […] […]

They were once seen as a must-have domestic gadget which made household chores a doddle – but it seems that the British love affair with the vacuum cleaner has finally run out of suction. So […] […]