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A jury on Thursday convicted two British Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale of murdering serviceman Fusilier Lee Rigby who was run down with a car and stabbed to death on a London street in May, The Associated Press reported. The 25-year-old Rigby was walking toward his barracks when he was hit by a car, then stabbed and nearly decapitated by a cleaver, according to news reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that two jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot would be freed under an amnesty bill, The Associated Press reported. The bill will also enable 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against arctic oil drilling to avoid trial. The moves come just a couple of months before Russia hosts the Winter Olympics in February.

18-year-old Karl Pierson, the Colorado student who opened fire at Arapahoe High School last week apparently planned to attack at least five different areas, investigators said on Tuesday, as reported by The Huffington Post.