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A Shell-operated oil drilling platform in the North Sea has been shut down while authorities work to fix a leak in a storage pipe, the company said Friday.

South Korea has returned home four North Korean fishermen rescued from two sinking boats in the Yellow Sea near the maritime border, the semiofficial Yonhap News Agency reported.

Bahrain’s large Shiite Muslim opposition group, Al-Wefaq, will boycott the country’s upcoming parliamentary election, a group representative said Saturday.

A member of Pakistan’s paramilitary Sindh Rangers has been sentenced to death in the killing of an unarmed teenager whose fatal shooting was caught on video, a prosecutor told CNN.

A few hundred protesters gathered Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, calling for a civil state and an end to military rule.

Britain’s accused rioters are facing the courts in growing numbers. More than 1,900 people have now been arrested, and about half of them have been charged. FULL STORY | STARING INTO ‘THE ABYSS OF ANARCHY’

Britain’s accused rioters are facing the courts in growing numbers. More than 1,900 people have now been arrested, and about half of them have been charged. FULL STORY | STARING INTO ‘THE ABYSS OF ANARCHY’

A roadside bomb killed a service member Friday in southern Afghanistan, NATO said, marking the sixth death in the region in less than two days.