Police in Ramadi uncovered 17 decomposing corpses of adults buried beneath two schoolyards in a district that until recently was under the control of al-Qaida in Iraq fighters. At least 85 people were killed or found dead across the country Tuesday.
Intelligence officials reported increased activity Tuesday around North Korea’s main nuclear reactor, indicating the country may be preparing to uphold its agreement to shut down the plant. North Korea promised the U.S. and four other nations in February to dismantle its nuclear programs in return for energy aid and political concessions.
The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, police said. Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at point-blank range outside a train station Tuesday evening, Nagasaki police said.
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