Kenneth Bae, an American detained for nearly six months in North Korea, has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, Pyongyang announced May 1, AP reported.

Three men arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing have been charged for conspiring to obstruct justice and for making false statements, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported May 1.

Two of the three suspects arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation are two Kazakh nationals who appeared in immigration court the morning of May 1, The Boston Globe reported.

Two of the three people taken into custody May 1 in the Boston Marathon bombing case were classmates of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Reuters reported May 1, citing a law enforcement source.

Three additional suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been taken into custody, according to a Twitter message from the Boston Police Department.

The United States will send about 10 military personnel to Mali to provide liaison support to French and African troops and 12 soldiers to guard the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, a Pentagon spokesman said April 30, The Washington Post reported.

A civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, killing all seven crew members, the U.S.-led military coalition said in a statement April 29, AP reported.

Venezuela's electoral body has said the audit of votes cast in the presidential election will begin May 6, BBC reported April 28. I

The Jamestown Foundation on April 26 flatly rejected an April 24 report by Russian newspaper Izvestia that suggested the foundation had connections to alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.