VELES, Macedonia – This is the moment when Sandrine Koffi’s dream of a new life in Europe ended — and her nightmare of an infant lost in the Macedonian night began. As club-wielding police closed in, the 31-year-old from Ivory Coast couldn’t keep up with her fellow migrants. Not after …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Someone is just hours away from losing the biggest lotto prize in Puerto Rico’s history. The person who bought the winning $32 million lotto ticket has until the end of Wednesday to claim the money. The ticket was sold at a San Juan grocery store …
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – A passenger bus traveling to Montenegro has overturned on a poorly maintained road in Bosnia, killing three people and injuring a further 13. The bus flipped over and fell into a ravine near the eastern town of Foca close to midnight Sunday, police said. The dead are …
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s new president has replaced an ex-military with a civilian governor in the Tamil-controlled north in a sign of improving ties with the ethnic minority following the end of the civil war. The Tamil-controlled provincial administration of the Northern Province has long accused the outgoing …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia is sticking to its policy of executing drug offenders, including foreigners, and says the withdrawal of the Dutch and Brazil ambassadors will not disturb its diplomatic ties with those countries. Jakarta brushed aside appeals by foreign leaders and executed six convicted drug traffickers over the weekend. …
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DAVOS, Switzerland – The head of the International Monetary Fund says Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked for a new program of financial rescue loans. Christine Lagarde met Poroshenko on Wednesday on the sidelines of an economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, and said in a statement that the Ukrainian leader …
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KUWAIT CITY – A Kuwaiti defense lawyer says an appeals court has upheld a ruling against a Twitter user and ordered him jailed for five years over comments he posted online deemed insulting to the ruler of the Gulf nation. Attorney Fahad al-Harbi said Thursday that the court determined that …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – South Sudan’s warring factions have signed another peace deal to end hostilities. The government and rebels have previously signed at least three peace deals which were broken quickly. Seyoum Mesfin, a mediator, says leaders of the regional bloc overseeing the talks will take severe action against …
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KIEV, Ukraine – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ukraine to show support for the embattled government as the Obama administration weighs sending arms to Kiev to help it fight Russian-backed separatists. Amid a fast-moving flurry of international diplomacy, Kerry arrived in Kiev on Thursday bringing with him …
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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s government is reporting a record year for its tourism industry, with last year’s arrivals and earnings surpassing numbers set the previous year. Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill says the island attracted 3.5 million visitors in 2014, generating gross foreign exchange earnings of $2.2 billion. That’s an increase …
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