News of the day from across the globe, Oct. 21

U.S. Marines and other NATO troops staged a mock amphibious assault on Europe’s coastline Tuesday as part of the alliance’s biggest exercise in 13 years — an event intended to demonstrate its conventional military muscle and send a message of warning to potential foes.

The Trident Juncture training event being held through November in Portugal, Spain and Italy involves some 36,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen from some 30 countries, with more than 200 aircraft and over 60 ships and submarines.

Intelligence agents have foiled 20 terror plots in Russia this year, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, and asked officials to increase their efforts to prevent attacks.

Putin said Tuesday that the FSB intelligence agency arrested 560 militants and killed 112 others in Russia’s North Caucasus in raids and clashes.

The Health and Labor Ministry said the man, who wasn’t identified further, has received government approval for compensation for the radiation-induced illness.

Yem Chhrin faces up to life in prison if found guilty of murder, intentionally spreading HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — and practicing medicine without a license, his lawyer, Em Sovann, said by telephone from Battambang town, where a provincial court is holding the five-day trial.

Yadav, was also convicted of kidnapping, in addition to rape while endangering the life of a woman, for an assault in December on a 26-year-old passenger who said she had fallen asleep in his vehicle and woke up in a secluded location with Yadav beside her in the back seat.