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By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – For Vladimir Putin, Russia’s military build-up in Syria is a potential diplomatic trump card and a handy way of diverting attention from Ukraine’s frozen conflict. When it saw several months ago that Syrian government forces were retreating on several fronts at a rate that threatened President Bashar al-Assad, its closest Middle East ally, the Kremlin quietly decided to despatch more men, weaponry and armor,
LONDON (AP) — A court hearing involving the Lotus Formula One team was adjourned again on Friday amid reports that a takeover by French manufacturer Renault is imminent.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian warplanes unleashed a wave of deadly airstrikes on the Islamic State-held town of Palmyra in central Syria on Friday, killing at least 15 and wounding many more, activists said, in some of the heaviest bombardment since the extremist group seized the ancient town May 10.
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local (CET):
Andy Murray gave Great Britain a flying start in their Davis Cup semi-final against Australia with a 6-3, 6-0, 6-3 victory over Thanasi Kokkinakis on Friday. World number three Murray took under two hours to see off the challenge of the 19-year-old Australian on the hard court of the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. The 28-year-old’s success eases the pressure on Dan Evans who faces Bernard Tomic in the second singles
Riley was once the target of an assassination plot by the escaped drug lord’s operatives.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof’s friend knew about his plans to shoot black church members during Bible study in Charleston and lied to investigators when they interviewed him a day after the massacre, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.
The GOP frontrunner declined to correct a questioner at a town hall in New Hampshire.
Massachusetts police have identified the 4-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a trash bag on a beach in Boston Harbor in June, local media reported on Friday, citing unnamed law-enforcement sources. Police have also searched an area home in conjunction with the investigation, Boston’s WHDH television said. A spokesman for Suffolk County prosecutors said the “investigation remains very active,” but declined to provide details.
“One thing is clear to me, regardless of what we did, no matter what decision was made, there would’ve been people who agreed with it and people who disagreed with it,” police Chief Larry Boyd told CNN. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Ahmed Mohamed, 14, is Muslim and the case was an example of the climate of hate and manufactured fear around the religion. The bespectacled ninth grader in
