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A former peanut company executive was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison – the stiffest punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case – for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak that killed three elderly Minnesotans.

Recent evidence showed a growing deployment of Russian forces in Syria, which Israel fears would trickle to Hezbollah and other militant organizations, according to a statement issued last week by the Israeli prime minister’s office.

Before the executive were sentenced, former Peanut Corporation of America proprietor Stewart Parnell heeded as nine victims testified against him regarding their panic and grief.

Immigration lawyer Sherif Ashamalla said that in his experience refugees from Beirut will typically face up to a year of additional waiting because they still have to go through two more steps after approval: a medical check and police check.

A man whose mother died from eating tainted peanut butter was among those who told a federal judge on Monday that the Parnells should receive stiff prison time.

European interior ministers return to the table in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon for another round of talks on the deeply divisive issue of migration quotas. After last week’s meeting, Luxembourg’s Jean Asselborn, who is minister for immigration and asylum as well as...

The White House has already taken in 1,500 Syrian refugees since 2011, a small number critics say [Xinhua].

Some, like the now infamous photograph of Syrian man Laith Majid in tears clutching his two children just off the Greek Island of Kos, have ended happily.

Canada’s Conservative government said Saturday, September 19 that it will not accept more than its previously announced commitment of 10,000 Syrian refugees but will accelerate processing their applications to issue thousands more visas before the end of this year.

Mr Andrews, a staunch conservative supporter of Tony Abbott, told reporters in Melbourne he was “disappointed” Mr Turnbull had not accepted his offer to work with him.

Trudeau took up all the shrillness and anger in the room.

Instead, Justin Trudeau said if elected, his government would launch an “open and transparent competition” to replace the aging fleet of CF-18s with a cheaper option, allowing increased spending on the Royal Canadian Navy.

On the other hand, the Boeing Super Hornet’s fly away price is around $65 million at an 80-cent dollar, with the possibility that a large proportion of the maintenance can be done in Canada, the Liberals said in the document. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said the...

Citing security concerns, Austria partially shut a highway linking Vienna and Hungary on Friday.

Some Abbott allies stepped aside or refused portfolios, with the resignation of Treasurer (finance minister) Joe Hockey from parliament the biggest surprise.