International

MOGADISHU, Somalia — For Abdiqadir Dulyar, simply reading messages sent to his phone can send shivers down his spine.

LONDON — Leicester City completed one of the greatest-ever sporting achievements Monday when the 5,000-1 underdogs won the Premier League for the first time.

BANGKOK — Thailand-based Leicester fans remain convinced their team will win the English Premier League title despite the anticlimax of Sunday's 1-1 draw against Manchester United.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences since circuses began in America two centuries ago.

NEW YORK — His defiant protests helped shape Americans' opposition to the Vietnam War. And they landed The Rev. Daniel Berrigan behind bars.

BEIRUT — The Syrian government launched new airstrikes Saturday on insurgent-held neighborhoods in Aleppo while rebels shelled government-held parts of the northern city, as a truce in other parts of the country appeared to be holding on its first day.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A Navy commander who fled Cambodia's killing fields as a boy to grow up to become a decorated U.S. military officer was sentenced Friday to 78 months in prison for providing classified ship schedules in exchange for the services of prostitutes, theater tickets and other gifts from a Malaysian defense contractor.

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea on Friday sentenced a U.S. citizen of Korean heritage to 10 years in prison after convicting him of espionage and subversion, the second American it has put behind bars this year.

SEOUL — A suspected powerful intermediate-range North Korean missile crashed moments after liftoff Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, in what would be the second such embarrassing failure in recent weeks.

NEW YORK — An ancient stone sculpture of Buddha's footprints that was smuggled into the United States and had been expected to sell for more than USD$1 million was returned to the government of Pakistan on Wednesday.