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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) 鈥� A U.S.

PARIS (AP) 鈥� A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the first such case in Europe.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) 鈥� Former Colombian President 脕lvaro Uribe was charged Friday in a long-running witness tampering investigation.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) 鈥� First-of-its-kind legislation that classifies two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances was signed into law Friday by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands (AP) 鈥� An American arrested in the Caribbean for illegally carrying ammunition received a suspended sentence Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Turks and Caicos Islands, and his lawyer said he was fly

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) 鈥� The United Nations' top court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but stopped short of ordering a cease-fire for the enclave.

A highly publicized trial in Massachusetts involving a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank is finishing its fourth week on Friday.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution Friday that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel, and demands that all combatants protect them in accordance with international law.

PARIS (AP) 鈥� A police officer in riot-hit New Caledonia shot and killed a man Friday after being set upon by a group of about 15 people, the territory's prosecutor said.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) 鈥� More than 100 people are believed to have been killed Friday in a landslide that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea , and an emergency response is underway, the South Pacific island nation's