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Pakistani officials: Gunmen seize former Prime Minister Gilani's son during election rally

ISLAMABAD - Gunmen attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province on Thursday and abducted the son of a former prime minister, intensifying what has already been a violent run-up to Saturday's nationwide elections.

2 cruise ship passengers fall overboard off Australian coast; air and marine search underway

SYDNEY - Authorities were conducting an air and marine search Thursday off Australia's east coast for two cruise passengers who were believed to have fallen overboard the night before.

40 years since post-war exodus, Vietnamese take to sea again, now hoping to stay in Australia

HANOI, Vietnam - Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Hezbollah chief says Syria will supply it with 'game-changing' weapons

BEIRUT - Hezbollah chief: Syria will supply 'game-changing' weapons to the Lebanese militant group.

Actress Kerry Washington said she was 'shocked' by upcoming 'Scandal' finale

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - She wouldn't even serve up a little taste.

Police: Body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect is out of Worcester, buried

BOSTON - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said Thursday after a frustrating weeklong search for a community willing to take the body.

Pakistani prisoner dies from beating in Indian prison week after Indian's death in Pakistan

NEW DELHI - A Pakistani prisoner serving a life sentence in India died Thursday from a beating that occurred a day after a convicted Indian spy was killed inside a Pakistani prison, and the rival nations have accused each other of not doing enough to protect prisoners.

In court filing, Kobe Bryant says he never gave his mother the right to sell his mementos

CAMDEN, N.J. - Kobe Bryant says in a court filing that he never gave his mother permission to sell mementos from his high school days and early professional basketball career.

Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Bertolucci to head jury at 70th Venice Film Festival

MILAN - The Venice Film Festival has announced that Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci will chair the jury for the 70th Venice Film Festival.

Women held captive in Ohio endured lonely, dark lives; kidnap suspect due in court Thursday

CLEVELAND - Three women found alive after a decade in captivity endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.

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