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S.Korea actress charged in Thailand for catching giant clams

BANGKOK - A South Korean actress has been charged in Thailand with catching endangered giant clams while participating in a reality TV show and could face up to four years in prison if found guilty, a...

Jul 05, 2019

Bahamas police were told billionaire Cline was on helicopter

NASSAU, Bahamas - Police in the Bahamas worked Friday to identify the bodies of seven Americans killed in a helicopter crash after being told that billionaire coal tycoon and Republican donor Chris Cl...

Jul 05, 2019

Fest drops Peter Yarrow over 'indecent liberties' sentence

NEW YORK - A music festival has disinvited folk singer Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary over his 1970 jail sentence for indecent liberties with a 14-year-old girl. The Press and Sun Bulletin of Bi...

Jul 05, 2019

Sweden detains rapper A$AP Rocky after street fight

COPENHAGEN - A Swedish court has ordered U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky to spend two weeks in pre-trial detention while police investigate a fight in downtown Stockholm. Prosecutor Fredrik Karlsson said Frida...

Jul 05, 2019

Kevin Spacey accuser drops lawsuit against actor

BOSTON - A young man who says Kevin Spacey groped him in a Nantucket bar in 2016 has dropped his lawsuit against the Oscar-winning actor. Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer for the man, announced in an ema...

Jul 05, 2019

Putin signs bill suspending participation in nuclear treaty

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill suspending Russia's participation in a pivotal nuclear arms treaty. Putin's decree, released on Wednesday, formalizes Russia's departure from the 19...

Jul 05, 2019

Indian political scion Rahul Gandhi resigns as party leader

NEW DELHI - Rahul Gandhi resigned Wednesday as president of India's opposition Congress party, long led by his politically powerful family, to take responsibility for its crushing defeat in recent ele...

Jul 05, 2019

Turkey: 3 killed in explosion near border with Syria

ANKARA, Turkey - A bomb went off in a car near Turkey's border with Syria on Friday, killing three Syrians who were inside the vehicle, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters. The blast...

Jul 05, 2019

BMW CEO to step down in wake of disappointing earnings

FRANKFURT - BMW CEO Harald Krueger is stepping down in the wake of the luxury automaker's weakest earnings performance in a decade. The Germany company said Friday that Krueger, 53, would not seek an ...

Jul 05, 2019

At Tehran symphony, music lovers seek escape from reality

TEHRAN, Iran - Aficionados of Western classical music have carved out a niche for themselves in Iran, where cultural expression remains tightly controlled by strict rules imposed after the 1979 Islami...

Jul 04, 2019