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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis County autopsy has found that the unarmed black teenager killed during a confrontation with a white police officer was shot six to eight times. The county medical examiner's office says the autopsy showed Michael Brown was hit in the head and chest. Earlier today, attorneys for Brown's family released details of their own autopsy. That procedure found that one of the bullets entered the top of Brown's skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when he suffered the fatal injury.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is lifting a curfew in Ferguson while ordering the National Guard to help restore order in the St. Louis suburb that has seen sometimes violent protests since the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Nixon deployed the Guard following last night's clash between armored police and what he describes as "a violent criminal element intent upon terrorizing the community."
BAGHDAD (AP) — A spokesman for the Kurdish military says its peshmerga forces are now in full control of Iraq's largest dam and its vicinity, successfully wresting back control from Islamic militants. The Iraqi military said earlier today that it had seized control of the Mosul Dam with the help of peshmerga ground troops and U.S. airstrikes, but that clashes with fighters of the Islamic State group were ongoing on the southern end of the dam's complex.
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis has endorsed the use of force in Iraq to stop Islamic militants from attacking religious minorities. But, Francis tells reporters traveling with him on his return from South Korea that the international community — not just one country — should decide how to stop "an unjust aggressor."
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali police say security forces have arrested a senior commander considered to be the second-ranking leader of Somalia's pirate industry. Police say he was arrested in the capital, Mogadishu, yesterday for possessing illegal arms and other charges related to piracy. Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have dropped dramatically over the last several years after ships began carrying armed guards.
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