Organized crime | Italy fights mafia with new strategy: banish sons

First Italy fought its mafia mobsters by confiscating their wealth. Now judges are taking away something more precious: their sons. Riccardo Cordi, a shy 18-year-old scion of one of Italy's most

USA | Ferguson officer shot, 2 suspects wanted

A Ferguson police officer was shot in the arm Saturday night after encountering two men at a community center who ran from him and then opened fire during a foot

Man accused in Oklahoma beheading is awake 

A man who was shot after authorities say he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained

SERBIA | Thousands of police protect gay pride march

Thousands of anti-riot police officers were deployed yesterday in downtown Belgrade in an effort to protect a gay pride march that faced threats of attacks from extremists. Water cannons, armored vehicles

This Day in History | 1958 – Historic Sheerness docks to close

All 2,500 jobs at Sheerness Docks on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent are in jeopardy. The first ever secretary of the Admiralty, Samuel Pepys, established the dockyard in the 17th

Offbeat | Slot machine saves German gambler as police arrive

A gambler in Germany has been saved from prison by a one-armed bandit. Police said that two officers carrying out routine checks at an arcade in the western city of Bochum

The Buzz | Spain picks Lennon film to compete for Oscar

Spain’s film academy has selected the movie “Vivir es Facil con los Ojos Cerrados” (Living is Easy With Eyes Closed) about a Spanish man’s quest to meet John Lennon as

World briefs

CHINA A lawyer says a parent upset about the end of an experimental teaching program at a Beijing elementary school has been detained on suspicion of causing trouble. Lawyer Zhou

Scorsese’s latest is documentary on magazine

As the New York Review of Books approached its 50th anniversary in 2013, editor Robert Silvers and his staff wondered if words were enough to honor one of the world’s

US AIRSTRIKES | ISIS oil sites hit in Syria

  U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early yesterday, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their

EXTREMISM | Hunt on for militants who beheaded French mountaineer

France’s defense minister said yesterday that Algerian forces are hunting for the Muslim extremists who beheaded a French mountaineer over France’s airstrikes on the Islamic State group. Jean-Yves Le Drian also said France, which has

SIERRA LEONE | Gov’t to cordon off 3 areas to stop Ebola

Sierra Leone restricted travel yesterday into and within three more “hotspots” of Ebola where 1.5 million people live, meaning that more than a third of the country’s population is now

This Day in History | 1984 – UK and China agree Hong Kong handover

In a ceremony at the Great Hall of People in Beijing the document was initialed by the UK ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, and the head of the Chinese

Offbeat | Donkeys reunited at Polish zoo after sex scandal

Napoleon is now back with his Antosia. The two amorous donkeys who were separated because of an outcry over their lovemaking have been reunited at a zoo in Poland. The couple,

The Buzz | Tribes from US, Canada sign bison treaty

Native tribes from the U.S. and Canada signed a treaty Tuesday establishing an inter-tribal alliance to restore bison to areas of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains where millions of

World briefs

CHINA and Japan resumed high-level talks on maritime issues this week, in a sign that they want to improve relations badly strained in recent years by territorial disputes and wartime

ART | Rare Warhol paintings headed to NYC auction

“Triple Elvis (Ferus Type)” and “Four Marlons” rate among Warhol’s most famous portraits. The monumental paintings, each nearly 2.1 meters high, have never appeared at auction before and could bring

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | World leaders meet with multiple crises on agenda

Facing a world in turmoil from multiple crises ranging from wars in the Mideast and Africa to the deadly scourge of Ebola and growing Islamic radicalism, leaders from more than

JORDAN | Court acquits radical cleric Abu Qatada of terrorism charges

A Jordanian court yesterday acquitted radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada — known for his fiery pro-al-Qaida speeches — of involvement in a plot to target Israeli and American tourists and

KHORASAN GROUP | Obama opens a new front against al-Qaida

The U.S. decision to strike the Khorasan Group to stop a possible terror attack represents a significant expansion of the largely secret war against core al-Qaida, a group President Barack

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