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LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles judge has dismissed a sexual battery charge against “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis because prosecutors said they were unable to contact his accuser. The judge dismissed the misdemeanor count on Thursday after city prosecutors said they were unable to proceed because they had …

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Dozens of heavily armed gunmen kidnapped two Italian aid workers and their Somali colleague in southern Somalia on Wednesday in what a government official described as a “terrorist act.” Police are pursuing the kidnappers, government spokesman Abdi Haji Gobdon said. “The kidnapping of two Italian aid workers …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A police chief says a homicide bomber has killed four civilians and wounded eight other people in southern Afghanistan. Helmand provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal says the target of Sunday’s attack was a district police chief in the town of Musa Qala. Andiwal said five policemen …