August 11, 2016 St Vincent lawmakers weigh legislation on online defamation Legislators in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are scheduled to consider a cybercrime bill Thursday that would allow prison sentences of up to two years for online defamation.
August 11, 2016 Amid Haiti cholera epidemic, UN peacekeepers spill sewage and ignore water treatment, says internal report While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were blatantly violating their own sanitary rules for containing the disease, according to an internal U.N. report that was suppressed for months.
August 11, 2016 Report: US-based Turkish navy officer 'missing' after coup Turkey's state-run news agency says a Turkish naval officer working in the United States has gone missing and has failed to report back home following a failed coup by renegade officers within the Turkish military.
August 11, 2016 Drawn-out battle for IS-held Syrian town offers lessons As U.S.-backed forces close in on the Islamic State group in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, the extremists have used hundreds of residents as human shields, laying mines and shooting those trying to flee the town near the Turkish border.
August 11, 2016 Canada terror suspect prepared martyrdom video before he was killed A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists prepared a martyrdom video and was about to commit a terrorist attack but was killed after he detonated his explosive device in a taxi and was shot at by officers who say they thwarted the suicide bomb plot after being tipped off by the FBI, police said Thursday.
August 11, 2016 DNA law leads to retrial for 3 in 1988 Puerto Rico killing The witness said he was sure: He'd driven three men to the beach and watched them sexually attack and kill a 21-year-old pharmacy student.
August 11, 2016 Man allegedly caught with 2-year-old girl's body in duffel bag had violent criminal past A man arrested at the Mexican border Tuesday after allegedly being caught with the body of a 2-year-old girl stuffed in a duffel bag was previously convicted of a slew of crimes, including involuntary manslaughter, having drugs with the intent to sell them and being a felon in possession of a gun, The LA Times reported.
August 11, 2016 Libyan official: '70 percent' of last IS bastion liberated A Libyan official says U.S.-backed forces in Libya have liberated "70 percent" of the city of Sirte, the Islamic State group's last bastion in the North African country.
August 11, 2016 The Latest: 2 Turkish military attaches flee, minister says The Latest on political and military developments in Turkey (all times local): 1:05 p.m.
August 11, 2016 US seeks to ease Chinese anger over missile defense plans A senior U.S. military official says an advanced U.S. missile defense system that is to be deployed in South Korea only targets North Korea, not China.
