Georgia man sentenced for racially-motivated attack against letter carrier

A Georgia man who threatened a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and then attacked the public servant’s vehicle will spend more than five years in prison. Prosecutors say the Washington County resident was found guilty of a hate crime due to his use of racial slurs against the letter carrier. According to documents provided in…

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Manhunt underway in rugged Australian bush after gunman kills two policemen

Australian police on Wednesday identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in the country’s southeast. Dezi Freeman, 56, was heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival skills, Victoria’s Chief Commissioner of Police…

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Russia plans to withdraw from Europe’s anti-torture treaty

Moscow’s decision will likely be seen as inconsequential given growing condemnation of widespread human rights abuses committed in Ukraine. Russia plans to formally withdraw from Europe’s convention against torture and inhuman treatment, according to a decree published this week. The resolution by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin calls upon President Vladimir Putin to submit the…

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Israeli drone strikes kill six Syrian soldiers in Damascus suburb, reports claim

Syrian state media and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the latest drone strikes on Tuesday in the southern Damascus suburb of Kiswah killed six soldiers. Israeli drone strikes on a southern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus killed six soldiers and wounded others, according to state-run media and Britain-based war monitor Syrian…

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Texas man arrested for allegedly making bomb threats outside ICE facility

Authorities in Dallas arrested a 36-year old man who the Department of Homeland Security says issued bomb threats against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on Monday. Shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday, Bratton Dean Wilkinson allegedly approached security officers and showed them what he claimed to be a “detonator” on his wrist, prompting a…

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Australia expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney in October…

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