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CAIRO – Egypt faced treacherous weather conditions Saturday as a sandstorm blanketed the north of the country and a magnitude-5.2 earthquake centered in the Sinai peninsula shook buildings more than 200 miles away in the capital, Cairo. The epicenter of the quake was 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) southeast of the …

ROME – The mayor of Rome has been hospitalized overnight after falling ill. City hall officials confirmed Tuesday that Ignazio Marino was recovering at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, but declined to give the cause. The ANSA news agency said he was suffering from renal colic, a painful condition often caused by …

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia has asked Russia to veto a British U.N. Security Council resolution that would call the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s a genocide. Serbian media said Saturday the country’s pro-Russian President Tomislav Nikolic has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say two Central American migrants have died and a dozen more were injured when a truck carrying 41 people overturned in southern Mexico. The National Institute for Migration says the accident occurred near San Francisco Ixhuatan in Oaxaca state Sunday night. Four of the injured …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Danish Foreign Ministry is telling its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Tunisia, saying there is “a high terror risk.” The ministry on Friday didn’t elaborate but Danes traditionally follow Britain when it comes to travel advisories. A day earlier, Britain had urged its citizens …

DEVELOPING – French police said eighteen people were removed unharmed from a discount clothing store in a suburb of Paris after three armed robbers burst in early Monday. A Paris regional police official told the Associated Press that special police units had surrounded the Primark store and cordoned off a …

BEIRUT – An international human rights group says Syria’s main Kurdish militia is still violating the ban on child soldiers, despite some progress to stop using boys and girls under the age of 18. Human Rights Watch says the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, and its women’s branch, YPJ, …

BERLIN – A founding member of Germany’s upstart Alternative for Germany party, who left after losing the leadership to a bitter rival, announced the creation of a new party Sunday with a fiscally conservative euroskeptic message. Bernd Lucke, the former leader of the Alternative for Germany or AfD, said a …

FRANKFURT, Germany – Deutsche Bank’s net profit rose in the second quarter, but legal expenses stemming from investigations of the bank’s past conduct also increased and the bank’s new co-CEO said its financial performance was unsatisfactory. John Cryan said Thursday that Deutsche Bank needed to cut costs, shed unprofitable activities …

BANGKOK – Thailand will start collecting inheritance tax for the first time next February. The Inheritance Tax Act 2015 says a 5 percent tax will be imposed on inherited assets worth more than 100 million baht ($2.8 million) for parents or direct descendants, and 10 percent for others. The act …