Correction: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil-rights activist, is not an attorney. His vocation was incorrectly described in items in this "In the news" feature.
Michelle Obama, the first lady and honorary national president of the Girl Scouts of the USA, lauded the group’s contributions and urged adults to help out in a recruiting video aimed at reversing a long-running decline in participation.
Col. Abdullah al-Zayedi, spokesman for joint security operations in Benghazi, said unknown attackers have assassinated three army officers in the eastern Libyan city, which has been hit by a months-long wave of targeted killings.
Thomas Bach, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, said he had received assurances from senior officials and games organizers in Russia that the ongoing dispute over the country’s treatment of gays will not affect athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of a Russian punk music group who is serving a two-year prison sentence after an impromptu performance inside a Moscow cathedral in 2012, has been moved to a prison hospital on the seventh day of a hunger strike, said her husband, Pyotr Verzilov.
Scott Carpenter, 88, the second American astronaut to orbit Earth, is recovering from a stroke, said his wife, Patty, who said her husband has been moved to a rehabilitation center.
Rodney James Duve, a 52-year-old owner of a South Texas convenience store, has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting of a 39-year-old man who tried to steal a 12-pack of beer, said Corpus Christi police.
Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, called a newly unveiled missile-carrying attack drone a “strategic asset” for the military to protect Iran’s borders, and also said experts have finished reverse-engineering a top-secret Central Intelligence Agency drone that Iran captured in December 2011.
Marion Fesneau-Castaing, a cultural attache at the French Consulate in Jerusalem, will end her duties and leave Israel before the end of the year after Israel and France decided to terminate her post because of a fracas involving Israeli soldiers that occurred as she tried to deliver humanitarian aid to a Palestinian community.
Jesse Jackson, the U.S. civil-rights attorney and minister, said he will continue to press guerrilla rebels and Colombia for the release of captured American Kevin Scott, despite receiving a cool response to his plan from that country’s president.
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