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Boston resident Aijalon M. Gomes, 38, captured international headlines in 2010 when he was imprisoned in North Korea for seven months; he died on Nov. 17 in San DiegoA man held captive in a North Korean prison in 2010 and freed with the help of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died in San Diego over the weekend after being found ablaze in a field. Aijalon M. Gomes, 38, had recently relocated to San Diego from Boston. On Friday night, around 11:30 p.m., an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer was driving westbound on Pacific Highway near SeaWorld Drive when he spotted...

A former CIA counterterrorism officer who is set to be extradited to Italy where she faces a four-year prison sentence in connection with the rendition of a suspected terrorist that took place in Milan in 2003 said Hillary Clinton is partially to blame for her ordeal. Sabrina De Sousa, two-dozen other CIA officers, and an Air Force colonel were convicted in absentia in 2009 in Italy on kidnapping and other charges in connection with the abduction of Osama Mustapha Hassan Nasr, better known as Abu Omar, a radical Egyptian cleric whose fiery anti-American speeches in the immediate aftermath of 9/11...

(LEAD) Carter in N. Korea to free imprisoned American amid brewing nuclear diplomacy By Sam Kim SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived Wednesday in North Korea, official media reports said, as he sought to secure the release of an American imprisoned there amid brewing signs of diplomacy aimed at reviving nuclear talks involving Pyongyang. "Jimmy Carter, ex-president of the U.S., and his party arrived here Wednesday," the North's Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch seen here, adding Pyongyang's top nuclear envoy, Kim Kye-gwan, received him at the airport. A child handed the...

North Korea threatens to increase punishment for detained American