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BEIRUT (AP) — A Kurdish official says the body of an American who died fighting alongside Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria has been handed over to his family. The official says hundreds of people turned up in the Kurdish town of Kobani to bid farewell to Keith Broomfield before his body was handed over to family at the a border gate with Turkey. Broomfield, from Massachusetts, died June 3 in battle in a Syrian village, making him likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside Kurds against the Islamic State group.
MIAMI (AP) — Two Pakistani-born brothers have been sentenced to the maximum possible prison sentences after pleading guilty in Florida to charges of organizing a terror plot against New York City landmarks. A judge sent one of the men to prison for 35 years. His brother got 20 years. They pleaded guilty in March to terrorism-related charges including conspiracy to provide material support. The brothers also admitted to assaulting two U.S. marshals while in custody.
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Police have blocked off the main road outside a northern New York village as authorities concentrate their sixth day of searching for two escaped murders on a swampy area. The area being searched is about 2 miles east of the prison where the convicts broke out last weekend. A police helicopter is flying over the heavily wooded area dotted with swamps. Local schools are closed and residents have been told to lock their doors.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks have opened slightly higher, building on a big gain from the day before. Technology stocks are posting some of the biggest gains. European markets were higher following more signs of progress in talks over extending an emergency lending program for Greece.
PARIS (AP) — Authorities say criminal networks are busier than ever faking, forging and doctoring travel documents, identity papers, drivers' licenses and social security cards. Experts from the U.S., Europe and other countries have been meeting behind closed doors in Paris today to discuss how to tackle the problem that they say feeds the movement of extremists across borders, social welfare scams and traffickers preying on refugees. One French official says almost half of the 226 networks of illegal immigration dismantled in his country last year centered on fake documents.
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