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- Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regretsGROZNY, Russia (AP) — The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States.
- Zambia risks breadbasket dream with subsidy cutsBy Chris Mfula LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia's decision to cut subsidies on maize and remove a fuel subsidy is likely to hamper output of the staple grain, raise prices and dash its goal of becoming a regional breadbasket. The southern African country reduced a subsidy on fertiliser to 50 percent from 75 percent, so farmers will now pay more for the vital input. The government also halted a practice that saw it buy maize from farmers at inflated prices, which it resold to millers at lower-than-market prices to keep a lid on food inflation. ...
- US unemployment aid applications fall to 340KWASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week, further evidence that the job market is slowly returning to health.
- Britain: Soldier slaying suspects had been probedLONDON (AP) — Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had featured in previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.
- Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina paroleMOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court has denied parole to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.
- London attackers British, of Nigerian origin: sourceBy Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said Thursday. Local media named one of the two suspects as British-born, 28-year-old Londoner Michael Adebolajo and said police raided homes of relatives in the city and near the town of Lincoln. Both men involved in Wednesday's attack appeared to have converted to Islam from Christian backgrounds, media said. ...
- North Korea says willing to take China's advice to start talksBy Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea is willing to take China's advice and enter into talks, Chinese state television cited an envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as saying, following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula after the North's latest nuclear test. However, that prospect seems unlikely as North Korea has repeatedly said it will not abandon nuclear weapons while the United States insists North Korea must take meaningful steps on denuclearization before there can be talks. ...
- Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cutsMOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top military officer has voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel cuts in non-nuclear precision weapons.
- Car bomb kills 12 in southwest PakistanQUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by Islamic militancy and a violent separatist insurgency, police said.
- Ralph Lauren's 4Q profit rises 35 pct
