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ABIDJAN (AP):The son of Ivory Coast's former president has been arrested at the airport while attempting to leave the country on a flight to Paris.But an Ivorian lawyer for Michel Gbagbo said the arrest last Friday was an abuse of his client's rights.

ABUJA (AP):A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to "cleanse" their neighbourhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists said yesterday.

Dunn was charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Jordan Davis of Marietta, Georgia, in 2012 after they got into an argument over the music that was coming from Davis' parked vehicle.

As much as 24 inches was expected to fall in some areas by the end of Friday, blown about by heavy winds, from Quebec to Newfoundland.

CONNECTICUT, Hartford, (AP):Tandem tractor-trailer trucks were banned from Connecticut highways yesterday and most schools were closed as plow trucks struggled to keep roads clear in a heavy winter storm that was expected to dump up to 20 inches of snow...

New York City's mayor was blasted yesterday by the teachers' union and TV weatherman Al Roker for keeping schools open on a day that another winter storm brought nearly 10 inches of snow.Roker, who was in Russia for the Winter Olympics, but has a...

Stroke risk tied to cold, humidity, weather swings - AP :There may be a link between weather and the risk of suffering a stroke, say researchers who analysed climate trends ...

JERUSALEM (AP): A municipal planning committee yesterday advanced a plan to build a Jewish seminary in the heart of an Arab neighbourhood of east Jerusalem, triggering angry Palestinian accusations that Israel...

ALGIERS (AP): An Algerian military transport plane crashed yesterday in the country's mountainous east...

An officer in Algeria's intelligence service says 103 people died when a military plane crashed in the east of the country today.

NEW YORK (AP): MORE THAN 3,000 birds were rescued in a three-county cockfighting takedown in New York this weekend that resulted in nine felony arrests, according to the state attorney general's office.In a statement released Sunday night...

The BBC is reporting that aid groups are trying to extend a truce in the Syrian city of Homs to allow more civilians to leave areas that have been under siege for 18 months.