U.K. man charged with 2nd-degree murder in fatal Toronto assault

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Man on death row for brutally killing elderly couple dies in prison before execution
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Florida father found guilty in death of teenage daughter
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Indian hackers target Canadian military website amid row over murder of Sikh leader
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Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler who was whisked away from his Georgia home by relatives without her permission to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died. Four family members, including the boy's aunts, are facing kidnapping or terrorism charges, or both, that stem from an August 2018 raid in search of the 3-year-old boy at a squalid encampment near the Colorado line. Authorities said they found the suspects living with 11 hungry children without running water at the encampment encircled by berms of tires with an adjacent shooting range where guns and ammunition were seized.
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6 women are rescued from a refrigerated truck in France after making distress call to a BBC reporter
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Boy found alive after going missing from First Nation in northeastern Alberta
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Men shoot transgender woman with paintballs after she used women’s bathroom, feds say
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