David Petraeus, a former four-star general whose run as director of the CIA ended after an affair with his biographer came to light, has been named a visiting professor for public policy at Macaulay Honors College at City University of New York.
Mohammed Fouad Gadallah, the legal adviser to Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, resigned, saying there is “no clear vision” in running state affairs because the Muslim Brotherhood has monopolized decision-making in the presidency.
Maya Angelou, the 85-year-old poet and author of the 1969 autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, has been ordered not to travel for three to four weeks and is recovering at her North Carolina home after a brief hospitalization, her doctor said.
James McCormick, 56, a Briton who made an estimated $76 million from sales of bomb detectors to countries including Iraq, Georgia and Saudi Arabia, was convicted of three counts of fraud over the detectors, which prosecutors said “lacked any grounding in science” and worked no better than trying to detect explosives at random.
President Thein Sein
of Burma pardoned 93 people, including 59 political prisoners, after the European Union lifted sanctions against his country, but at least 300 remain jailed, said Ye Aung, a former prisoner and member of a government panel reviewing the cases of political detainees.
Andrea Lawton, 47, of Mobile, Ala., pleaded guilty in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust said to be worth $3 million, which she said she took from a suburban Philadelphia home to get the owner of the house cleaning service where she worked fired.
Nafie Ali Nafie, a Sudanese presidential adviser, and other officials have accepted an invitation to Washington for a “candid discussion on the conflicts and humanitarian crises within Sudan,” a State Department spokesman said.
Antwan James, 27, a former Washington, D.C., firefighter, is accused of shooting and killing his stepfather, an off-duty police officer, after a dispute over yard work at their Maryland home, in a homicide that police said was captured on surveillance cameras.
Samer Issawi, 33, a Palestinian prisoner who refused food for eight months, ended his hunger strike after a deal was reached with Israeli authorities for his early release.
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