LONDON – Police in Britain say that one of the three sisters who disappeared in the Middle East with their nine children has made contact with her family. West Yorkshire police said in a statement Wednesday there is an indication that the family has crossed into Syria, “but this is …
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UNITED NATIONS – More than 70 countries have signed a letter demanding that Syria stop indiscriminate aerial attacks that have killed thousands of civilians and urging the U.N. Security Council to prevent the Syrian Air Force from future attacks including dropping barrel bombs. The letter said Syrian air force helicopters …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The Ethiopian government says it is working with the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, to repatriate 80 suspected human smugglers as the country struggles to stem the wave of migrants leaving the country. The chief of the Illegal Human Trafficking Crime Investigation Division of Ethiopia’s …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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