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Adm. Ali Fadavi, navy chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, confirmed that the country’s military plans to target a replica of a U.S. aircraft carrier during forthcoming war games.

Crystal Jean Hostetter, 24, of Douglasville, Ga., and her girlfriend, Sarah Elizabeth McClain, 30, were charged with child cruelty after police said the pair disciplined Hostetter’s 6-year-old son by putting him in a dog cage for about two hours and coating him with syrup and cat litter.

Nadim Houry of the Human Rights Watch said a Yemeni draft bill under Cabinet review that would set 18 as the minimum age for marriage is “a real beacon of hope” for girls in a country where 52 percent are wed by that age.

Rick Santorum, the Republican former Pennsylvania senator, said he’s likely at least a year away from deciding whether to run for president again in 2016, adding that he thinks his party will struggle to win races unless candidates come up with policies that help working Americans.

Abdullah Abdullah, the leading vote-getter in the first round of Afghanistan’s presidential election, said he believes an investigation of the results will give him more than 50 percent of the vote after “invalid and fraudulent” ballots are removed, making a runoff unnecessary.

Luz Arroyo, 34, who pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide after her two young sons died in 2005 in a bathroom flooded with scalding water while she was in a drugged stupor, is asking a Westchester County, N.Y., judge to return her 2-month-old daughter from foster care, saying she’s turned her life around.

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s new prime minister, promised an overhaul of the country’s economy, telling lawmakers they’ll “sleep and eat” in the parliament building to ensure they pass the first set of measures by July 15.

Troy Whipple, 46, was arrested in Estill Springs, Tenn., after officers, during a traffic stop, found the body of a woman, identified as 46-year-old Bridgette Haley, in the car Whipple was driving.

Greg Schiller, a Los Angeles high school teacher who was suspended for two months over concerns that two students had assembled “dangerous” science projects under his supervision, has been reinstated and said he’s excited to be back in time to help his students prepare for their Advanced Placement tests.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 04/28/2014

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