Sri Lankan police arrest former president's brother
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police arrested former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother on Wednesday over alleged misappropriation of state funds, an official said.
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London Mayor Boris Johnson hits the UK campaign trail
With the polls deadlocked ahead of an election, Prime Minister David Cameron campaigned Wednesday with Boris Johnson, one of the Conservative party’s most popular politicians who also has his eye on the top job. Johnson, the twice elected mayor of London, had been keeping a low profile during the campaign for the May 7 vote but this week has made a string of appearances with top Tories in a bid
Indian farmer commits suicide at protest in capital
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the nation was “deeply shattered and disappointed” over the farmer’s death. “At no point must the hardworking farmer think he is alone. The Delhi police announced an investigation into the sequence of events leading to the farmer’s death. The tree was several metres from the stage where Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and members of his party were due to speak against the national government’s
Tina Brown on Hillary Clinton's 2016 run
The host of the Women in the World Summit talks with Yahoo’s Bianna Golodryga about what’s different this time around.
Protests grow over death of man in Baltimore police custody
The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Freddie Gray’s death.
Officials:extremist's misfire foiled attack on Paris church
PARIS (AP) — An Islamic extremist with an arsenal of loaded guns was prevented from opening fire on churchgoers only because he accidentally shot himself in the leg, French officials said Wednesday.
U.S. top court makes it easier for people to sue the government
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for people to sue the federal government by ruling in favor of plaintiffs in two separate cases including one involving a Hong Kong woman who was strip-searched while in immigration detention in Oregon. President Barack Obama’s administration had asked the court to impose a strict deadline for such lawsuits under a law called the Federal
Police officer slain by Boston bombers followed dream: brother
By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer shot to death by the Boston Marathon bombers had dreamed since childhood of wearing a badge and driving a police cruiser, his brother and father testified on Wednesday. The officer, Sean Collier, died in his police car three nights after the April 15, 2013, attack, when convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, shot him
Would-be Reagan assassin faces hearing that could expand freedom
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge begins hearings on Wednesday on whether would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. could get more time outside the mental hospital where he has lived since shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981. Hinckley, 59, has been allowed since December 2013 to leave Washington’s St. Elizabeths Hospital for 17 days a month to stay with his mother in Williamsburg, Virginia. Hinckley shot Reagan
Obama again avoids calling 1915 Armenian killings 'genocide'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will once again stop short of calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians a genocide, prompting anger and disappointment from those who have been pushing him to fulfill a campaign promise and use the politically fraught term on the 100th anniversary of the killings this week. Officials decided against it after opposition from some at the State Department and the Pentagon.