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FBI arrests Energy Department employee on charge of trying to support Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to …
Global shares rise despite worries on China virus outbreak
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares mostly rose Friday despite continuing concerns about the virus outbreak that began in China and its possible impact on global growth.
German police raid homes of suspected far-right extremists
BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are searching sites linked to five people on suspicion that they formed a "right-wing terrorist organization” and planned to carry out attacks against politicians and minorities.
More Jehovah's Witnesses convicted, tortured in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — Two Jehovah's Witnesses have been convicted of extremism in Russia and four more arrested, one of whom reported being tortured in custody, the religious group said Friday.
Ex-deputy indicted in fatal shooting of Georgia grad student
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A since-fired sheriff's deputy who police in Georgia said killed a graduate student he believed was having an affair with his wife was indicted on seven felony charges.
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Calif. man free after DNA site leads to new arrest in murder
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — California authorities used recently developed DNA techniques to free one man and implicate another for only the second time in the United States, officials said Thursday.
Man surrenders after firing many shots into air in Bangkok
BANGKOK (AP) — Police took a man into custody Friday after he fired multiple gunshots into the air in central Bangkok, injuring no one less than a week after a soldier killed 29 people in shooting rampage in northe…
Asian shares rebound from initial losses on virus count
TOKYO (AP) — Shares rebounded in Asia on Friday after an early sell-off, though Tokyo's benchmark declined as investors reacted to reports of a growing number of cases of a new virus in Japan and China.
RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has died after recent heart surgery. He was 79.
DNA links dead criminal to a 1996 South Carolina cold case
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A cold-case slaying in South Carolina has been closed, as police believe the killer died in a Louisiana jail more than a decade ago.
AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EST
China reports major drop in new virus cases; 143 new deaths
LA church leaders charged with marriage, immigration fraud
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three officials with a Philippines-based church in Los Angeles have been charged as part of an alleged scheme to trick followers into becoming fundraisers and arrange sham marriages to keep them …
China reports 121 more deaths, 5,090 new cases in virus outbreak, raising death toll to nearly 1,400
BEIJING (AP) — China reports 121 more deaths, 5,090 new cases in virus outbreak, raising death toll to nearly 1,400.
AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST
China reports major drop in new virus cases; 143 new deaths