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King Bhumibol Adulyadej , 86, of Thailand was admitted to Bangkok’s Siriraj Hospital and is being treated for a fever that doctors believe was caused by an infection, a palace statement said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., told the conservative Weekly Standard magazine that he can envision entering the 2016 presidential race if no other Republican candidates address his concerns about national security and foreign affairs.

President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger said his country will not be intimidated into withdrawing its troops from Mali, a day after nine United Nations peacekeepers from Niger were killed in an ambush by Malian militants.

Liz Landau , a spokesman for US Airways, said “more than a few” crabs escaped a shipping container in the cargo hold of a plane that was about to take off on a flight from New York to Charlotte, N.C., causing a 30-minute delay.

Ahmed Douma ,a leading Egyptian activist who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month to protest his imprisonment for violating a law banning street protests without permits, was transferred to a hospital after his health began to deteriorate, said his wife, Nourhan Hefzy, adding that authorities have barred her from visiting him.

David Bolam , a teacher at the Benghazi European School who was kidnapped by Libyan militants four months ago, has been freed and is now with his family at an undisclosed location, Britain’s Foreign Office said.

Dwayne Perry of Cartersville, Ga., whose home was targeted by officers from a drug task force after they mistook the okra plants in his yard for marijuana, said the drug officers later apologized but he worries that the incident has damaged his reputation.

Salah Salahadyn , 42, pleaded guilty to being a party to felony robbery for his involvement in the theft of a $5 million Stradivarius violin, nearly eight months after the 300-year-old instrument was snatched from musician Frank Almond, who was attacked with a stun gun after a performance in Milwaukee.

Reza Baluchi , who was attempting to float about 1,000 miles from the United States to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble, was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard about 70 miles east of St. Augustine, Fla., after he began suffering from fatigue, Coast Guard spokesman Marilyn Fajardo said.