The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

- From wire reports

Aegean quake: The death toll in last week’s Aegean Sea earthquake rose to 116 as rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir finished searching buildings that collapsed in the quake. Two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos.

Retrial in leak case: The retrial of a former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte, 32, charged with leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, will begin June 7, a federal judge said Wednesday. Earlier this year, a jury deadlocked on the most serious espionage charges alleging that Schulte stole a massive trove of the agency’s hacking tools and gave it to the organizati­on that publishes news leaks.

Hate-crime sentence: A Vermont man was sentenced to three years of supervised released and time served for a federal hate crime after he threatened to set fire to his Latino neighbors, according to the Justice Department. According to prosecutor­s, Stuart Kurt Rollins, 59, threatened to set fire to his neighbors’ house while they were inside and threatened to set a family member on fire in another incident.

Threats to princess: A man who sent death threats to the Dutch king’s eldest daughter, Princess Amalia, was sentenced to three months in prison and ordered to undergo psychiatri­c treatment. The court convicted the 32-yearold man of sending threats via Instagram to the teenage heir to the throne and one of her friends.

War crimes arrest: Jakup Krasniqi, 69, a former senior commander of ethnic Albanian separatist fighters in Kosovo’s 1998-99 war who was also the country’s former Parliament speaker, was arrested Wednesday and taken to the Hague for war crimes, his lawyer said. Krasniqi was arrested by policemen of the EU rule of law mission at his house west of the capital, Pristina.

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