RANCHI - Two of the Maoists who abducted an intelligence officer in Jharkhand and who was later beheaded have been arrested, police said Monday.
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Disappearance of Oregon boy classified as criminal
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Long-running Calif. Ponzi scheme preyed on elderly
Long-running Ponzi scheme exposed
SAN FRANCISCO — Roberto Heckscher’s double life as a meek accountant and high-rolling gambler has collapsed along with a Ponzi scheme authorities say he operated for 30 years.
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Egyptians beaten while protesting police brutality
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Guyana: US advisers not needed to fight crime
Florida receiver Hammond arrested on DUI charge
US soldiers fight crime in Puerto Rico’s heartland
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Celebrity sex-tape scandal grips Indonesia
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI hailed priests on Sunday as gifts to the world for their generous and courageous work, in a speech that didn’t mention the clergy sex abuse scandal.

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Kagan would sit out some big Supreme Court cases
NY teens charged with setting turtle on fire
Uruguay won’t press charges in theft
JOHANNESBURG — Uruguayan soccer officials have declined to pursue a theft case after allegations emerged that one of their own may have been responsible.
GUWAHATI - The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has formally expressed its willingness to open peace talks with the government to end more than three decades of violent insurgency in the state, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Sunday said.
CHANDIGARH - Punjab police Sunday claimed to have arrested two militants of the banned Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) from a village in the state’s Gurdaspur district.
LONDON - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari recently met captured Taliban leaders in a prison to assure them that the outfit had his government’s full support, a media report said Sunday.
Iraqi trial delayed over mental health dispute
Chinese drug regulation official fired amid probe
BANGKOK - Thailand’s prime minister pledged Sunday to give a newly created commission full freedom to investigate recent political violence, while working to identify and prosecute “terrorists”.