RAMALLAH, West Bank – Palestinian officials say a 21-year-old Palestinian has been killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Jenin. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri says special forces raided a refugee camp in Jenin early Wednesday and saw a man preparing to throw an explosive device …
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BRUSSELS – Leading European airlines are lobbying for new rules in Europe to lessen the impact of strikes and reduce taxes, pushing for what they call more American-style aviation rules. The CEOs of Air France KLM, Lufthansa, Easyjet, Ryanair and International Airlines Group held an unusual meeting in Brussels on …
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UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is criticizing Israel for the death and suffering of many Palestinian children during last summer’s conflict in Gaza and is urging the Israeli government to take immediate steps to prevent such killings. The U.N. chief referred to the controversy over his decision not to …
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MADRID – Emergency services in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia say they have deployed 40 rescue experts to extricate an injured caver from deep underground. A phone call Saturday alerted firefighters to the emergency inside the Cuberes cave in the municipality of Conca de Dalt. Preliminary information from the call …
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ATHENS, Greece – Looking tired and leaning on his cane, Fotis Theodorakopoulos watched quietly as other demonstrators gathered to discuss Greece’s financial drama and chant defiant slogans outside the parliament. Although he stayed on the sidelines, the 69-year-old said he was fully aware that Europe was about to decide on …
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UNITED NATIONS – The Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a one-year extension of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region where conflict is intensifying, rejecting the Sudanese government’s demand that the troops leave. A resolution adopted by the U.N.’s most powerful body keeps the size …
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s government says the brutal heat wave that hit the port city of Karachi and the country’s southern province of Sind in June killed 1,250 people before subsiding. A government statement on the latest death toll from the heat wave was handed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during …
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – An Estonian official says a Russian military aircraft violated Estonian airspace over the Baltic Sea this week. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Belovas says a note to protest the incident was handed over Friday to a high-ranking Russian diplomat. Belovas says a Russian Antonov An-26 aircraft entered Estonian …
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean prosecutors have indicted dozens of people, including two former navy chiefs of staff, over their investigation into alleged corruption associated with numerous defense procurement projects. Senior prosecutor Kim Ki-dong said Wednesday that 63 people face charges of accepting bribes, fabricating official documents or leaking …
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YANGON, Myanmar – The U.N.’s emergency relief organization says incessant monsoon rain in northwestern Myanmar has triggered flooding, leaving nine people dead and affecting 70,000 others. The report on Sagaing Region from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 12,000 houses have been damaged and schools forced …
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