MIT graduate student dies after falling off cliff in India

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. โ€“ ย A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who went missing more than a week ago in northern India has been found dead in a ravine after she reportedly slipped while jogging and fell several hundred feet off a cliff, MIT officials said Sunday. Kaitlin Goldstein, 28, a native of Providence, […]

Cease-Fire Reached in Palestinian Camp in Syria

Various fighting factions and the Syrian government reached a cease-fire agreement in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, activists and state media said Sunday. If it holds, the agreement in the Yarmouk, the largest of nine Palestinian camps in Syria, could help ease the suffering of some 18,000 civilians who have been trapped there […]

3 Quebec Helicopter Escapees Captured in Montreal

Three men who escaped by helicopter from a Quebec City-area prison two weeks ago were captured early Sunday at a Montreal residence, Quebec provincial police said. The fugitives were arrested by police investigators, accompanied by SWAT team members, around 1:30 a.m. at a condominium building in Old Montreal, police said. READ MORE:ย http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/quebec-helicopter-escapees-captured-montreal-24251778

Ugandans Drum Alarms to Rescue Abducted Children

When a child goes missing in this central Ugandan district, villagers beat drums into a pulsing rhythm that sends rescuers scampering through bushes. Others, riding motorcycles, try to block exit routes. In response to the kidnappings and ritual killings of children here, the traumatized community has created a rudimentary but effective abduction alert system that […]

Pope Francis denounces Mafia, says mobsters are excommunicated

CASSANO ALL’JONIO, Italy โ€“ ย Pope Francis journeyed Saturday to the heart of Italy’s biggest crime syndicate, met the father of a 3-year-old boy slain in the region’s drug war, and declared that all mobsters are automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church. During his one-day pilgrimage to the southern region of Calabria, Francis comforted the imprisoned […]

4 western Iraqi towns fall to advancing ISIS militants

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)ย — A strategic border crossing and three other towns in western Iraq fell Saturday to the control of ISIS militants, a senior Iraqi security official said. In addition to their offensives in northern Iraq, the militants have now strengthened their hand in the western province of Anbar, the country’s largest geographically, and were […]

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