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CAIRO (AP) — The ousted Islamist president of Egypt is going to prison. An Egyptian criminal court sentenced Mohammed Morsi to 20 years over the killing of protesters in 2012. The judge had dropped murder charges in the first verdict to be issued against the country's first freely elected leader. Morsi faces several other trials along with thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — An American man and woman have been found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to prison in Indonesia in the death of the woman's mother on the resort island of Bali. The court sentenced Tommy Schaefer to 18 years in prison and Heather Mack to 10 years. Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body was found in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi.
CATANIA, Sicily (AP) — Criminal proceedings are being prepared following the arrest of the alleged traffickers responsible for what might be the Mediterranean's worst migrant disaster. A Tunisian captain and a Syrian crew member of the smuggler ship that capsized are accused of favoring illegal immigration and the captain is also accused of reckless homicide in the deaths of as many as 900 migrants. Meanwhile, European Union leaders are considering ways to stem the tide.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A senior U.S. official is warning Kosovo that it must take its own legal action against suspected organ-trafficking and the disappearance of hundreds of Serb captives if it wants to avoid Russia and Serbia going to the United Nations. U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes Stephen Rapp says Kosovo must set up a court and try former ethnic Albanian guerrillas. He's in Kosovo to drum up support for establishing the court.
PHOENIX (AP) — A four-day hearing starts today in Phoenix regarding well-known Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's (ahr-PEYE'-ohz) acknowledged violations of a judge's orders in a racial profiling case. He has acknowledged disobeying an order that barred his immigration enforcement patrols. There are also other issues that could bring him fines, damage his credibility and make him politically vulnerable.
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