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Canada

Manhunt for police killer

Scores of Canadian police were scouring the woods in the eastern province of New Brunswick early on Thursday, hunting for a man believed to have shot dead three officers and wounded two others in a brazen attack. Residents were told to lock themselves up inside their homes in Moncton, the province's largest city, as police searched for the alleged shooter, 24-year-old Justin Bourque, who was described as armed and dangerous.

India

Woman slain in gang rape

Rebels shot dead a woman in northeastern India after she resisted their attempt to gang-rape her, police said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of sex attacks to shock the country. Police said the 35-year-old mother of four was at home in a remote village of Meghalaya state when militants of the outlawed Garo National Liberation army barged in. They locked her husband and children inside a room before turning on her, police said.

United States

Jet crashes into homes; no injury

A military jet slammed into a Southern California neighborhood dense with homes and exploded in flames, but the pilot and everyone on the ground emerged unscathed, officials said. Moments after the pilot ejected to safety on Wednesday afternoon, the Harrier jet went down in a residential area of Imperial and destroyed two homes and heavily damaged a third.

Montenegro

250 kg of cocaine seized

Authorities say they have seized 250 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated value of 12.5 million euros ($17.3 million), from South America in one of the biggest-ever drug busts in the small Adriatic nation. Customs said the cocaine was discovered on Wednesday on a ship carrying bananas from Ecuador to neighboring Albania.

AFP-Reuters-AP-Xinhua

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