LONG BEACH, Calif. — Eight black youths have been charged with hate crimes and felony assault in the brutal beating of three white women on Halloween night.
The youths — seven girls and one boy — pleaded not guilty Wednesday. If convicted, they face punishments ranging from probation to confinement in a youth facility.
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Despite strong opposition from the United States, Russia began the delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran.
“Deliveries of the Tor-M1 have begun. The first systems have already been delivered to Tehran,” the ITAR-TASS news agency quoted an unidentified Russia defense ministry official as saying.

The high-ranking official didn’t say when the delivery [...]

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Police in Romerike, north of Oslo, have charged 12 immigrants from Southeast Asia with fraudulently obtaining residence permission in Norway through the use of false marriages.
Suspicions rose when couples being interviewed for residence permission didn’t seem to know much about each other. In all the cases, one of the two already had permission to live [...]

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