World/Local News

THE protester who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has been jailed for six weeks. Jonathan May-Bowles, 26, pleaded guilty last week to assaulting the 80-year-old News Corporation chairman and chief executive as he […] […]

HAMILTON—A man believed to be the first person in Canada convicted of murder through HIV transmission has been declared a dangerous offender. The designation means Johnson Aziga could be jailed indefinitely. The Ugandan immigrant and […] […]

THE Israeli secret service Mossad was responsible for the assassination last month of an Iranian scientist in Tehran, Germany’s Spiegel Online news website reported. The killing of Dariush Rezaei-Nejad was “the first serious action taken […] […]

NEWLY released FBI documents reveal that threats against the late Senator Edward Kennedy continued long after the assassinations of his brothers. One of the alleged threats to Kennedy came ahead of a planned January, 1972 […] […]

A SAUDI court has opened the trial of the “al-Qaeda Lady”, the first woman in the kingdom accused of involvement in terrorist activities, local media reported. The specialised criminal court began the trial on Sunday […] […]

TWO Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian medics and security officials said today. The dead men, Moatassem Adwan, 22, and 23-year-old Ali Khalifa, […] […]

A DEADLY weekend attack in China’s restive Xinjiang region was masterminded by “terrorists” trained in Pakistan, the local government said today. Fourteen people were killed in two attacks at the weekend in the ancient Silk […] […]

LONDON—BBC news programs are being disrupted as journalists stage a 24-hour strike to protest job cuts. BBC radio’s flagship morning news program, “Today,” started an hour later than usual at 7 a.m. because of Monday’s […] […]

ROME—Italy’s coastguard found the bodies of 25 would-be migrants Monday in the hold of a boat crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa to the small Italian island of Lampedusa. The officials said they found the […] […]

Police in the US say a driver who nailed four parked cars and flipped his SUV onto a 13-year-old girl standing outside her New York home had been stabbed. The driver and the teenager both […] […]