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A Missouri man accused of holding a woman captive in his basement until she escaped last year has been indicted on rape and other counts that carry life in prison, the Clay County prosecutor said Tuesday. Timothy Haslett Jr., 40, was indicted on nine charges, including rape, sodomy and kidnapping, …

A man who prosecutors said broke into a U.K. industrial park to steal almost 200,000 chocolate Easter eggs has pleaded guilty to theft and criminal damage. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Joby Pool, 32, used a metal grinder to break through a gate at an industrial park in Telford, central England, …

Egyptian authorities Tuesday released the country’s former anti-graft chief after he served a five-year prison term for allegedly insulting and disseminating false news about the military, his lawyers said. Hesham Genena, a former judge, walked free from a police station and returned to his home in Cairo’s eastern New Cairo …