A grand jury indicted Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhaykov, the two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect DzhokharTsarnaev on obstruction of justice charges for helping to hide evidence after the April 15 terror attack that killed three people and injured 264 people.
The official death toll rose to 35 after knife attacks on Chinese authorities in a far-western region which has seen frequent clashes between China's Muslim minority Uyghurs and the ethnic Han majority. Initial reports said that 27 people were killed on Wednesday in the Xinjang region, with state-run media saying that the assailants were wielding knives, launching an early-morning attack targeting police stations, a government building and a construction site, seen as symbols of Han authority and influx in the region.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces a 30-count indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with using weapons of mass destruction and killing 4 people. The indictment alleged that Tsarnaev, inspired by Al-Qaeda publication (specifically Inspire) had allegedly left a confession in the boat where he was captured in a Watertown Massachusetts backyard writing, "I don't like killing innocent people," but had been justified because of U.S. government actions abroad.
Traces of DNA on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance of a man praying in a mall led to the arrest on Wednesday of a young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier who was patrolling a crowded area outside Paris.
