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CALGARY, Alberta, March 6 (UPI) -- A 29-year-old Alberta man faces 14 charges related to impaired driving after a road crash north of Calgary that killed four temporary immigrant workers.
PARIS, March 6 (UPI) -- Former California money manager Bruce Fred Friedman, who faced U.S. charges in an investment scam, died in French custody, a U.S. Embassy official said.
Assad regime attacks border areas, 35 dead
DAMASCUS, Syria, March 6 (UPI) -- Syrian opposition groups said at least 35 people were killed Tuesday by government forces attacking an escape route to Lebanon.
MONTREAL, March 6 (UPI) -- Some 158 investors will divide up $17 million in damages from the Royal Bank of Canada in an out-of-court Ponzi fraud agreement announced by the bank Tuesday.
SUVA, Fiji, March 6 (UPI) -- Three months after Fiji lifted emergency laws, critics say its military dictatorship limits free expression and gives wide powers to police and the military.
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 6 (UPI) -- Four U.S. troops accused of bullying and abusing an Army soldier who then apparently killed himself should face court-martial, a military investigator said.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 6 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabian Embassy official Kahalf al-Ali, 45, was shot to death early Tuesday near his home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, officials say.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 6 (UPI) -- Suspects in Turkey's 1993 Sivas massacre may go free because too much time has passed, officials said.
Tymoshenko's daughter suspects poisoning
BRUSSELS, March 6 (UPI) -- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter said she suspects her mother is being poisoned in a Ukraine prison.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 6 (UPI) -- A Swedish agency is helping build a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia, documents said.
BENGHAZI, Libya, March 6 (UPI) -- Civic leaders in eastern Libya declared semi-autonomy for the oil-rich region of Cyrenaica at a meeting attended by some 2,000 people, observers said.
BRUSSELS, March 6 (UPI) -- A technical error was responsible for failing to include Kosovo on a map of Serbia published on the European Union's portal, a EU Commission source said.
BOGOTA, March 6 (UPI) -- Colombian authorities say they have apprehended four suspected members of the revolutionary guerrilla group known as FARC.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 6 (UPI) -- A gun battle between police and suspected criminals resulted in the death of six people in the Jamaican capital of Kingston, authorities said.
JUAREZ, Mexico, March 6 (UPI) -- Mexican police said they have arrested a Juarez candy stand owner on charges of sexually abusing at least five children over a period of several months.
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