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TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian police said today they had arrested and charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner resigned as Trinidad and Tobago’s national security minister yesterday, two days after an investigation accused him of “fraudulent” management of the CONCACAF soccer confederation, the prime minister’s office said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers asked yesterday why the FBI had failed to spot the danger from one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and they complained it was one of a series of cases in which someone the agency had investigated had later taken part in attacks.

ABIDJAN,  (Reuters) – Africa-focused miner Randgold Resources sees any further fall in the price of gold as an opportunity to expand its exploration activities cheaply, the company’s chief executive said.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian court sentenced 23 police officers yesterday to 156 years in jail each for killing 13 inmates in Brazil’s bloodiest prison revolt in which 111 inmates died more than 20 years ago.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – About the only tranquil place in Caracas over the last few days is a hilltop military museum housing the remains of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.

BOSTON (Reuters) – The Federal Public Defender Office said yesterday it will represent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, once charges are filed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia asked the FBI in early 2011 to investigate Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev out of concern he had embraced radical Islam and was going to travel to Russia to join underground groups, US law enforcement sources said yesterday.

YA’AN, China (Reuters) – China’s worst earthquake in three years yesterday killed at least 157 people and injured more than 5,700, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani court remanded former president Pervez Musharraf in custody for two weeks yesterday as judges pushed ahead with plans to put the former army chief on trial for a crackdown on the judiciary during his time in office.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China’s Sichuan province today, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – A Pakistani court remanded former president Pervez Musharraf in custody for two weeks today as judges pushed ahead with plans to put the former army chief on trial for a crackdown on the judiciary during his time in office.

WATERTOWN, Mass.,  (Reuters) – Police captured a 19-year-old man suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings with his older brother after a day-long manhunt yesterday that closed down the city and turned a working-class suburb into a virtual armed camp.

WEST, Texas, (Reuters) – Investigators sifted through debris yesterday to determine the cause of a Texas fertilizer plant explosion that obliterated parts of a small town and killed at least 14 people, including volunteer firefighters who had raced to the scene in advance to douse a blaze.

(Reuters) – They dressed like typical American teenagers, enjoyed playing sports, were friendly and strived to fit in after arriving in the United States with their family from the southern Russian province of Dagestan a decade ago.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistani police arrested former president Pervez Musharraf yesterday to face allegations he overstepped his powers while in office, marking a dramatic break with a political culture in which military rulers have remained untouchable.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – A U.S. drugs sting targeting Guinea-Bissau’s top military brass may freeze cocaine smuggling through the tiny West African state in the short term but could jeopardise efforts to restore order after a 2012 coup.

NEW YORK/LONDON, (Reuters) – Documents obtained by U.S. authorities investigating mining corruption in Guinea show Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz’s mining company promised to pay millions of dollars in Africa to win valuable mining concessions.

SHANGHAI,  (Reuters) – About 100 people could have died or been injured in a 6.6 magnitude earthquake which struck near Ya’an city in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan yesterday, close to where a massive temblor struck in 2008, killing almost 70,000.

(Reuters) – Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site.