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Obama sets new rules for drone attacks

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Thursday he had signed new policy guidance regulating the conditions when the United States can use unmanned airborne drones to kill terror suspects abroad.

WHO warns countries not to hoard secrets of coronavirus

GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on Thursday that they must share information and not allow commercial labs to profit from the virus, which has killed 22 people worldwide.

5 arrested in US $4M jewelry heist, kidnapping

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut: Authorities say five people have been arrested in the robbery of $4 million in jewelry from a Connecticut store in an elaborate heist that began with the kidnapping of store employees more than 40 miles (64 kilometers) away.

Canada terror suspect: Lawyer must use 'holy book'

TORONTO: A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the “holy book” as a reference in his case.

Norway crime novelist talks his way to live interview record

OSLO: Defying the stereotype of the tight-lipped Scandinavian, popular Norwegian crime writer Hans Olav Lahlum set the world record for the longest interview on Thursday after spending more than 30 non-stop hours chatting in an online broadcast.

EU in Kosovo arrests 5 war crime suspects

PRISTINA, Kosovo: The European Union law mission in Kosovo says five ethnic Albanian men have been arrested for alleged war crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 war.

Obama condemns killing of British soldier

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned the killing of a British soldier in London by two suspected Islamic extremists as “appalling” and “horrific.”

Magnitude 7.4 quake strikes in sea off Tonga -USGS

LONDON: A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck in the sea 177 (285 km) miles southwest of Tonga’s capital Nuku’alofa, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Thursday.

UK police arrest two over soldier killing

LONDON: British police said on Thursday they had arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of conspiracy to murder over the killing of a soldier on the streets of east London.

INSIGHT: In attacker’s argot, Londoners shocked to hear one of their own

LONDON: In the lurid scene of the red-handed knifeman describing his motives for hacking to death a British soldier in broad daylight, perhaps the most chilling aspect for Londoners was the man’s unmistakably familiar accent.