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Thieves flee on motorboat after stealing Swedish crown jewels
Police spokesperson Thomas Agnevik said: "It's too hard to translate these things into some kind of value ..." The thieves have not yet been captured. Strangnas is a small town south of Stockholm . The cathedral was closed Wednesday, and a grassy area by the jetty was cordoned off as police inspected the ground for clues. [Full Article...]
Pope changes death penalty teaching, now 'inadmissible'
Capital punishment was "an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person", Francis said in a change to Catholic teaching. "It is necessary, therefore, "to reaffirm that no matter how serious the crime that has been committed, the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person". [Full Article...]
Indian-origin mathematician Akshay Venkatesh gets prestigious Fields medal
Akshay Venkatesh , a 36-year-old Indian-origin mathematician teaching at Stanford University in the United States, is one of the four winners of the prestigious Fields Medal, considered to be the Nobel Prize equivalent for mathematics. [Full Article...]
Israel says Assad back in charge, Syrian front likely to be quieter
Israeli minister of military affairs has admitted that the government of President Bashar al-Assad is regaining control of the Syrian territory and that stability is returning to the occupied Golan Heights. Russian Federation has rejected this, saying they can't force Iran to leave. The BBC's Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem, Tom Bateman, says that despite the infiltration, Israel sees Ira... [Full Article...]
Roadside bomb hits bus in western Afghanistan, kills 11
They said 160 people had been killed and over 490 wounded in the province in serious security incidents in this time. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Islamic State has claimed a number of recent attacks in the city. It ended after more than five hours of intense fighting between militants and security forces, said Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor o... [Full Article...]
Federal judge blocks release of plans for 3D-printed guns
Some background: In 2013, Cody Wilson , the founder of Defense Distributed, uploaded on his website the design files he used to create the first fully 3-D-printed gun . Writing at Fox News, gun scholar John Lott presents arguments which dovetail perfectly with Feldman's. These basic guns can be made by anyone who owns a 3D printer , which uses plastic or other materials to build up an object... [Full Article...]
Indian among 3 foreign nationals kidnapped, killed by terrorists in Kabul
Security officials Thursday said the three worked for Sodexo , an global food and catering service. "We have found their bodies", a spokesman for Kabul's police chief said. They were all travelling for work with a local driver. Identity cards of the employees were found next to the bodies, an Afghan official said. Their bodies were found in Mussahi, a volatile area of the Afghan capital, the ... [Full Article...]
Trump thanks Kim for handing over remains of war dead
Each box was draped in a U.S. flag and carried off a military cargo jet by a sailor, a Marine, a soldier and an airman at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu on Wednesday. "Today, our boys are coming home". Other countries under the command of the United Nations also lost troops that are still unaccounted for, including the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. [Full Article...]