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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Wildlife rangers killed an armed poacher in a shootout after he and others infiltrated a private ranch and shot dead an elephant, Kenya Wildlife Service said Tuesday. A rifle and bullets were recovered at the scene of the shootout in Choke Ranch in Kenya's south, and the surviving poachers fled before they could cut off the elephant tusks, the service said. Human rights groups have accused wildlife rangers of executing suspects. A report released by the Muslims for Human Rights group last year accused some rangers of executing suspected poachers to cover their involvement with them   Poaching declined last year with 164 elephants and 35 rhinos killed, down from 302 elephants and 59 rhinos killed in 2013. Officials attributed the decline partially to stiffer penalties adopted last year for those involved in the illegal wildlife business. Separately, Chinese national Gao Xudong, 61, was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle...

BEIJING (AP) — The son of actor Jackie Chan was released from a Beijing jail Friday after completing a six-month sentence for allowing people to use marijuana in his apartment, amid a crackdown on illegal narcotics in the Chinese capital. A statement issued by Jaycee Chan's entertainment company said the 32-year-old actor and singer left the city's Dongcheng jail a few minutes after midnight Thursday. Photos showed chaotic scenes as reporters chased his car and surrounded it at a toll station. The statement thanked fans and the media for their concern and said Chan would hold a news conference Saturday in order to "apologize and explain." Police detained Chan, Taiwanese movie star Ko Kai and several other people in August in Chan's Beijing apartment. Chan and Ko tested positive for marijuana, and police seized more than 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of the substance. Ko, whose real name is Ko Chen-tung, was released after serving a 14-day admin...

A recent date night in West Hollywood between Beyonce and Jay Z   turned ugly, and it was all because of Rihanna ! The Barbadian beauty has been causing issues in Bey's marriage to Jay Z for years now, ever since he signed her to his record label when she was a teenager. And Bey has had enough! Uh oh! Beyonce and Jay Z may be putting on a united front while touring the country together, but a new report suggests that the Rihanna affair rumors are putting a strain on their marriage! previous rumors. Beyonce and Jay Z  are one of the most famous celebrity couples, but they also (try to) lead very private lives. We told you that  the famous elevator fight  on May 5, between  Solange Knowles  and Jay at The Standard Hotel, was instigated by Jay’s “too close for comfort” relationship with designer Rachel Roy . However, we also heard that he was planning on meeting up with Rihanna  later that night — and  that rumor i...

Whitney Houston, left, and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive at an event in Beverly Hills in 2011. (Dan Steinberg/AP file)   The media circus surrounding Bobbi Kristina Brown, the 21-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, is tragically familiar — a cycle of rumor-laden headlines fueling more unconfirmed innuendo followed by more rumor-laden headlines.   Is Bobbi Kristina essentially brain dead, or is her condition improving ? Did her family pledge to  take her off life support  on Wednesday, the anniversary of her famous mother’s death, or was that false reporting ? Brown has been hospitalized since she was found unresponsive, face down, in a bathtub at her Atlanta-area home on Jan. 31. She remains in a medically induced coma as chaos swirls all around her. The two sides of Bobbi Kristina’s family have taken dramatically different approaches during the crisis. And the apparent abse...

An agreement aimed at ending the fighting in Ukraine has been reached, following marathon talks in Belarus. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France announced that a ceasefire would begin on 15 February. The deal also includes weapon withdrawals and prisoner exchanges, but key issues remain to be settled. The pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have signed the agreement. Thousands of people have died in almost a year of fighting in the region. The BBC's Richard Galpin in Minsk says the deal is very similar to a ceasefire agreed last September , which unravelled very quickly. The latest agreement includes: Ceasefire to begin at 00:01 local time on 15 February Heavy weapons to be withdrawn, beginning on 16 February and completed in two weeks All prisoners to be released; amnesty for those involved in fighting Withdrawal of all foreign troops and weapons from Ukrainian territory. Disarmament o...

SOURCE, CNN. Al Jazeera applauds the two journalists' release but calls for their full exoneration The journalists face retrial on charges accusing them of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood Cairo (CNN) Two Al Jazeera journalists who'd been imprisoned in Egypt for more than a year were released Thursday, with a court telling them they can await retrial away from jail in a case that has outraged journalists and activists around the globe. An Egyptian court Thursday ordered journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed freed ahead of their retrial on charges accusing them of supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Their release comes less than two weeks after Al Jazeera correspondent Peter Greste, a colleague who'd been convicted with them, was released and deported to his native Australia. Fahmy, an Egyptian-Canadian and a former CNN producer, was released on a bail of 250,000 Egyptian pounds ($32,750). Mohamed, an Egyptian citizen, was no...

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