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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's parliament on Wednesday paved the way for the demolition of an illegal West Bank outpost by rejecting an attempt by hardline lawmakers to prevent the move....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is delivering a strong defense of the U.S. use of drones to kill insurgents in Pakistan, telling an audience next door in India on Wednesday that America has made it clear to Islamabad it will continue to target al-Qaida leaders in that country....

Plaintiffs’ strip search claim on arrest without booking permitted on motion to amend; it was not futile. Sorrell v. Inc. Vill. of Lynbrook, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77303 (E.D. N.Y. June 4, 2012).*

There was probable cause for defendant’s arrest for murder for hire by payment of a snowmobile. State v. Santiago, 2012 Conn. LEXIS 218 (May 29, 2012).*

In litigation over a 1991 search warrant in 2012, the seizure under the search warrant was somewhat excessive, but it was not reason to suppress the whole search under Andersen. United States v. Persico, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77298 (E.D. N.Y. June 1, 2012).*

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's government extended the powers of military police and intelligence agents on Wednesday to allow them to arrest civilians for a wide range of offenses, just days before the runoff for a president who will replace the country's military rulers as head of state....

Police appeal for information about a dark saloon car used by armed men who left a 16-year-old schoolboy "fighting for his life" in an attempted robbery near Magherafelt.

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The lawyers set to argue the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case are in court to complete jury selection....

More than 2,000 viewers complain to the BBC about coverage of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

How long will Spanish society hold together in economic crisis?

HONOLULU (AP) -- Filtering the sun's light to a minuscule fraction of its true power allowed sky-gazers over the world to watch a silhouetted Venus travel across Earth's closest star, an extremely rare spectacle that served as a reminder of how tiny our planet really is....

LONDON (AP) -- Archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theater where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed....

Pakistan's Supreme Court has sent a fact-finding mission to a remote northern area to establish if four local women have been killed.

French president Francois Hollande unveils details of a plan to lower the retirement age to 60 for some workers - one of his key election pledges.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers - from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy to their own relatives....

Runaway tire checks into hotel room. CNN's Jeanne Moos checks out crazy videos of tires that "attack."

A man accidentally shot dead his former lover at a launderette in Portswewart, County Londonderry, while intending to kill himself, a court hears.

Officials in Pakistan investigate whether four women who apparently sang and watched as two men danced have been murdered in a so-called 'honour' killing.

The search for bodies of those killed in a plane crash in Nigeria's major city of Lagos has ended, authorities said Wednesday.

Suicide bombers struck a busy market in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and leaving dozens wounded, authorities said.

The mother of a Kent student who was murdered in Poland has described the man who is on trial for her murder as "pure evil".

Nato planes carry out an air strike in Logar province, south of the Afghan capital Kabul, with several people reported dead.