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LOS ANGELES – A former music executive charged in a wiretapping case involving Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano was ordered held without bail after the judge deemed him a flight risk. Prosecutors presented e-mails allegedly written by Robert Pfeifer, a former president of Hollywood Records, in which Pfeifer told a …

MAPUTO, Mozambique – A powerful earthquake rocked Mozambique and Zimbabwe early Thursday morning, killing at least two people and sending thousands of frightened people fleeing into the streets from swaying buildings. The magnitude-7.5 quake shook every corner of Mozambique and was felt strongly in Maputo, the capital in the far …

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel, leaving 32 of the migrants missing and believed drowned, Mauritanian officials said Sunday. Mauritania, located in the northwest of Africa about 600 miles from Spain’s Canary Islands, has increasingly become a jumping-off …