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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, told students that the country’s “Death to America” slogan, which he said has “strong support” among Iranians, is aimed at American policies and arrogance, not the American people.
Matt O’Malley, a member of Boston’s City Council, said he was joking when he tweeted that he would introduce an emergency ordinance prohibiting Justin Bieber- inspired graffiti, a response to the pop singer’s request that artists around the world paint murals related to songs from his new album.
Erick Ulises Ramirez, the mayor of Cocula, Mexico, was the subject of a house- arrest order after he was detained with Adan Zenen Casarrubias, the purported leader of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang.
Paul Rater, 53, of Buckeye, Ariz., faces two counts of child abuse and one count of child endangerment after police said he left his 5- yearold granddaughter alone in the Arizona desert brush with a loaded handgun for protection while he went for drinks and a cheeseburger.
Marcus Pilkington, 38, the last person held in a deadly shootout among bikers and police outside a Waco, Texas, restaurant in May that resulted in 177 arrests, was released from jail on $ 50,000 bond on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity.
Randy Smith, the Slidell, La., police chief, is giving officers a month off from rules requiring them to be cleanshaven and have neatly groomed hair, as long as they donate $ 25 as part of No- Shave November, a campaign that challenges people to put down razors for 30 days and donate monthly hair- maintenance expenses to fight cancer.
Maj. Pande Sugiarta said the deportation of Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, 56, a purported Indian crime boss who has been on Interpol’s most- wanted list for two decades, from Indonesia’s Bali Island has been delayed because of ash spewing from a volcano on a nearby island.
President Xi Jinping of China plans to meet Saturday with Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying- jeou in what would be the first visit between leaders of the two sides since the 1940s, when China’s Nationalist party lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists.
Nicholas Tobin, 18, of Concord, N. H., was charged with reckless operation after he was clocked traveling 101 mph in a 55- mph zone on Interstate 93 and told a state trooper that he’d been speeding because he was late for class.