Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of a fundamentalist Islamist sect captured Thursday by the Nigerian military, is dead, a spokesman for the governor of Borno State said.
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The Taliban has issued a new military “code of conduct” calling for restrictions on suicide attacks and a reduction in civilian casualties. Dismissed by the U.S. and Afghan officials as hypocritical propaganda, the document also outlaws smoking and sleeping in the same rooms as adolescent boys.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called before an independent inquiry into the country’s role in the Iraq war, its chairman says. John Chilcot tells the assembled media in London he will not “offer a list of witnesses” but that “key decision-makers in the key phases of the Iraq affair” will be called.
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Two civil guard agents were killed Thursday in an explosion outside a barracks on an island off the coast of Spain, Palma de Mallorca city hall officials said.
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A British multiple sclerosis sufferer who hopes to die one day by assisted suicide is set to learn whether she can die with her husband by her side. Britain’s current law makes it illegal to help someone commit suicide. But it doesn’t make clear at what point that person would face prosecution — whether that [...]

A 27-year-old mother of five was bludgeoned to death with an iron chain by her father last week in Gaza in what human rights groups report was an honor killing.
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The lawyer for the woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes that Sudanese authorities deemed indecent calls the law “degrading.” Lubna Al Hussein (pictured) — who writes for a newspaper and, until recently, worked for the United Nations in Sudan — was arrested on July 3. At the time of her arrest, she said, [...]

The organist on the seminal 1960s song “A Whiter Shade of Pale” has won a long-running legal battle for a share in the royalties for the tune.
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Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and the mother of his two eldest children, Debbie Rowe, has agreed not to challenge the singer’s mother for custody of the children, a Jackson family lawyer said in a CBS News interview.
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In death Neda Agha-Soltan became the face of Iran’s post-election demonstrations. On Thursday, the religiously significant 40th day after her fatal shooting, mourning ceremonies were planned in Tehran to remember her.
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