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A court in Florence, Italy, convicts American journalist Amanda Knox and sentences her to a three-year imprisonment over her accusations related to the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007. The sentence will count as time already served.
2024-06-5

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake strikes Humboldt County, California, United States, killing at least two people, injuring eleven others and causing minor damage.
2022-12-20

In the United States, the Oregon counties of Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur, and Sherman all approve measures that would require county officials to take steps to promote moving the Idaho border west to incorporate their populations. These counties join Jefferson and Union counties that have already passed similar measures, while Douglas and Harney counties are voting on similar measure in upcoming elections.
2021-05-19

The United States ended a six-year Central-African hunt for Joseph Kony.
2017-04-26

A man claiming to be the Lord's Resistance Army top commander Ugandan Dominic Ongwen turns himself in to United States forces in the Central African Republic.
2015-01-6

Russia and China have blocked a proposal by the United States and France to impose U.N. sanctions on Central African Republic's former President François Bozizé and two other people linked to the conflict.
2014-04-23

Uganda's military orders army units hunting for Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic to return to their bases, following political instability in the CAR. Meanwhile the United States has offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to his capture.
2013-04-4

The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgrades the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-2011-08-06-us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806 (Reuters)] [http:--www.ajc.com-business-s-p-downgrades-us-1080498.html (AP via "Atlanta Journal-Constitution")]date=July 2019
2011-08-5

American police in Seattle say they will "review training procedured" following the surfacing of a video which attrated international attention. The video shows a white officer from the Seattle department punching a black teenaged girl in the face when she tried intervene while the officer was confronting another girl about crossing the road at a legally forbidden area. Seattle police deny any wrongdoing.
2010-06-16

James Cameron's "Avatar" becomes (not accounting for inflation) the second highest grossing movie in the United States and Canada and the best selling movie overseas.
2010-01-24