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Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, the last prime minister under ousted Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has been extradited from Tunisia and will be put on trial for crimes he is accused of committing under the former regime.

Josef Sever, 53, an Austrian who became a Canadian citizen, then lived in the U.S. since 1992, received five months in federal prison and will likely be sent back to Canada for casting votes in two U.S. presidential elections in what his attorney called “a misguided attempt to exercise a civic duty that he believed that he owed this country.”

Prince Charles of Britain and his wife, Camilla, visited an Auckland war museum, where Charles laid a wreath to commemorate Armistice Day, and greeted indigenous Maori at the start of a trip to New Zealand on the last leg of their Pacific tour marking Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th Jubilee.

Marco Antonio Rocca Ali, who is accused of being a Bolivian drug lord, was arrested along with 18 other people at a ranch in Salto del Guairo, Paraguay, where special agents said they seized 3,724 pounds of cocaine a day after a smaller drug find near the ranch.

Gerardo Gomez, 20, the final defendant in a 2007 Newark, N.J., schoolyard attack that killed three college-bound friends and left a fourth seriously wounded, has been convicted on 15 of 17 counts, including murder and attempted murder.

Mohammed al-Dahabi, Jordan’s former intelligence chief, was sentenced to 13 years and three months in prison for embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and abuse of office and was ordered to pay $29.6 million in fines and return about $34 million taken during his 2005-08 tenure.

James Meredith, who was the first black student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, said he was troubled and confused by a protest there against President Barack Obama’s reelection and urged students not to get sidetracked from their studies by “nonsense and foolishness.”

Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/12/2012

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