ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� A former executive for a longtime city of Atlanta vendor was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for paying bribes in exchange for millions of dollars in city contracts and to paying bribes to an official in a neighboring county in an attempt to get business ...
CAIRO (AP) 鈥� Egypt's president pardoned two prominent rights activists Wednesday, including one with ties to Italy who was sentenced this week, the country鈥檚 state-run news agency reported.Among an unspecified number of people pardoned Wednesday by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi was ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) 鈥� A Connecticut man who was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison for killing a baby in 1994 has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven and six now-former police officers involved in his arrest.Adam Carmon, 51, was convicted of murder and other crimes and ...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) 鈥� Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there, tearing a page from neighboring El Salvador's unforgiving approach to murder, robbery, rape and extortion.Honduras's progressive president ...
BEIRUT (AP) 鈥� The United Nations food agency said Tuesday it will reduce monthly cash aid for 120,000 Syrian refugees living in two camps in Jordan because of what it described as an 鈥渦nprecedented funding crisis.鈥滼ordan is a country of 11 million people and hosts some 1.3 million ...
