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INTERNATIONAL Dubai pardons woman at center of rape dispute on Monday DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With her passport back in hand, a Norwegian woman at the center of a Dubai rape claim dispute said Monday that officials dropped her 16-month sentence for having sex outside marriage in the latest clash between the city’s Islamic-based legal codes and its international branding as a Western-friendly haven. “I am very, very happy,” Marte Deborah Dalelv told The Associated Press after she was cleared by the order of Dubai’s ruler. “I am overjoyed.” Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to royal heir, name still unknown LONDON (AP) — It’s a boy! Prince William’s wife, Kate, gave birth to a prince who is now third in line to the British throne. The child was born Monday afternoon, after many Britons woke up to the news that Kate had gone into labor with the couple’s first child. The royal birth announcement said the boy was born at 4:24 p.m. weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. The announcement did not include a name for the future monarch, though one is expected to be revealed in the coming days.
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Norwegian Marte Deborah Dalelv, 24, shows her passport Monday at the Norwegian Seaman’s Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Frenzied crowds greet Pope Francis in Brazil during his seven-day visit RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Frenzied crowds of Roman Catholics mobbed the car carrying Pope Francis on Monday when he returned to his home continent for the first time as pontiff, embarking on a seven-day visit meant to fan the fervor of the faithful around the globe. During the pope’s first minutes in Brazil, ecstatic believers forced the closed Fiat to stop several times as they swarmed around during the drive from the airport to an official opening ceremony in Rio’s center.
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Sex offender charged with slaying 3 kidnapped women in Cleveland
Funeral set for 6-year-old stabbing victim who disappeared from bed
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — The soul-searching has begun in and around Cleveland — again — as the chilling details emerge from the latest missing-women case to send a shiver through the metropolitan area. A registered sex offender was charged Monday with murder and kidnapping in the slayings of three women whose bodies were found in plastic trash bags in a run-down East Cleveland neighborhood. It is the third major case in four years of multiple killings or abductions to haunt the Rust Belt metropolis. Zimmerman helped four people out of wrecked SUV in central Florida
DONALDSONVILLE (AP) — Large photographs of 6-year-old Ahlittia North were displayed on easels near her small coffin at the Christian Assembly Church in Gonzales. The child was stabbed to death after disappearing from her mother’s suburban New Orleans apartment more than a week ago. She was to be buried at the First Baptist Church Cemetery in Donaldsonville, where her father and stepmother live. Ahlittia disappeared after she was put to bed on the night of Friday, July 12. Her body was found in a trash bin near the apartment three days later.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman helped rescue four people from an overturned vehicle in Florida last week — days after he was cleared of all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Seminole County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Cannaday said in a statement that deputies responding last Wednesday afternoon to the wreck in Sanford — the Orlando suburb where Martin was shot — found Zimmerman and another man had already helped a couple and their two children out of a flipped SUV.
Landrieu, Cassidy compete to lower flood insurance premiums (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and her Senate race challenger, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, are jockeying for credit and prominence on a high-profile problem for many Louisiana residents: the skyrocketing cost of flood insurance premiums. Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, worked with other lawmakers to get a temporary fix through the House that would delay the higher premiums for one year.
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Brandalyn Johnson, right, guardian of 6-year-old murder victim Ahlittia North, is hugged by visitors Monday at funeral services for Ahlittia in Gonzales, La.
Founding bishop of Lake Charles Diocese dies, cause unknown LAKE CHARLES (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lake Charles has announced the death of its founding bishop. The Diocese said in a statement that 84-year-old Bishop Jude Speyrer died Sunday in Opelousas. The cause was not released as of Monday morning. Speyrer was ordained a priest in the Lafayette Diocese in 1953. He was installed as the first bishop of the Lake Charles Diocese on April 25, 1980. He retired on Dec. 12, 2000.
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