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| Accused mobster, near death, denies ties to Boston art heist-lawyer |
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| By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - An accused mobster on what may be his death bed once again denied knowing anything about the whereabouts of paintings stolen from a Boston museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, his lawyer said on Saturday. Attorney Ryan McGuigan said he visited Gentile in South Carolina this week after being advised by federal officials to tell Gentile's wife, also 80 and in ill health, and son, in his early 50s, to prepare for the possibility of the man's death. "His story has never changed in the six years that I have represented him." A spokesman for federal prosecutors in Connecticut declined to comment. |
| UAE military vessel damaged in "incident" off coast of Yemen |
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| A United Arab Emirates military vessel was damaged in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane off the coast of Yemen on Saturday but there were no injuries to its crew, the UAE military said. Hundreds of Emirati soldiers in a Saudi-led coalition have been fighting Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis who control the capital and training Yemeni troops in the port of Aden to help rebuild a state loyal to exiled president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. "General Command of the Armed Forces said one of its leased vessels suffered an incident in the Bab al-Mandab strait this morning during a return trip from a mission in Aden. |
| Kyrgyz president returns home after treatment |
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 BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev returned to the Central Asian nation on Saturday, his office said, after receiving treatment in Russia for suspected heart problems. Atambayev went on a medical leave after suffering chest pains on a flight last month and undergoing an examination in Turkey. His illness followed a public row with several former political allies who oppose his constitutional reform plan. ...
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| Suicide bomber kills one person, wounds three in Yemeni port city |
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| A suicide bomber blew himself up near a cinema in the Yemeni port city of Aden on Saturday, killing one person and wounding three others, residents and a local official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing in Aden's Crater district, which was carried out by an attacker wearing an explosive belt. Islamist militants, including the Islamic State group, have exploited an 18-month civil war between a Saudi-backed exiled Yemeni government and the Houthi movement to carve out influence in southern Yemen, where they have been recruiting new followers and launching attacks on military targets and senior officials. |
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