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Hadi, a once-quiet leader of a fractious Yemen, strikes defiant pose by reclaiming presidency

CAIRO – Virtually powerless for months, Yemen’s embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi looked ready to leave the country after fleeing Shiite rebels who seized the capital in September and held him captive in his own home for weeks. But the soft-spoken technocrat who has long avoided the limelight stepped …

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German ex-lawyer, who once defended Ernst Zundel, convicted of Holocaust denial in Munich

BERLIN – A former German attorney with well-known links to the far right has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to 20 months in prison. Munich state court spokeswoman Andrea Titz said 51-year-old Sylvia Stolz was convicted of inciting racial hatred for denying the Holocaust in a 2012 speech. …

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2 Pakistani militants accused in 2013 killing of 10 foreign climbers escape from jail

MANSEHRA, Pakistan – A senior police officer in Pakistan says two prisoners believed to be involved in the 2013 slaying of 10 foreign climbers at the base of one of the world’s tallest mountains have escaped from jail. Senior police officer Ishaq Hussain says four Pakistanis held at a jail …

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