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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani officials say four Islamic extremists allegedly involved in a 2009 attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team have been killed in a shootout with police. The officials did not identify the militants or their armed group. The attack on the cricket team killed six police and two bystanders, and wounded six cricket players.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Jordan says Washington will reach its target Monday of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a yearlong resettlement program. The program emerged as an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, with Republican nominee Donald Trump alleging in the past that displaced Syrians constitute a potential security threat.
DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The man arrested in the killing of two nuns in Mississippi this week has a criminal record and is currently on probation. That's according to a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections. She says Rodney Earl Sanders was convicted of a felony DUI and sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015. He was later released from prison and is on probation. Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in 1986 and served six years behind bars.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — State and local elected officials in North Carolina are expressing their concerns that the U.S. National Whitewater Center has reopened its water channels less than two months after a rafter died from a brain-eating amoeba and with no new regulations in place. According to the Charlotte Observer, State Sen. Joel Ford, whose district includes the facility, said he was "stunned" the center resumed rafting on Aug. 10.
PARIS (AP) — French investigators say they have handed preliminary terrorism charges to the brother-in-law of one of the Islamic extremists who attacked the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last year. The 20-year-old was arrested in Bulgaria last month on suspicion he was trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group. He has denied the allegations. The attack at Charlie Hebdo's Paris office in January 2015 killed 12 people.
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