MADRID – Greenpeace says fuel oil possibly from a sunken Russian fishing boat has washed up on the southern coast of one of the Spain’s Canary Islands. The environmental group said Thursday the fuel reached Veneguera beach on Gran Canaria island, a top European vacation spot. The Development Ministry said …
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CAIRO – Five crew members from a private Libyan TV network were found dead on Monday, eight months after they were abducted in eastern Libya, a government spokesman said. Hatem al-Aribi told The Associated Press that the bodies were found near the eastern city of Bayda — the temporary home …
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police say they have dropped a case that was recently registered against a former CIA station chief and a former agency lawyer over a 2009 drone strike that killed two people. Police officer Mohammad Nawaz said Thursday that the case against former acting general counsel John A. …
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BEIRUT – The U.S. military has denied reports that civilians were killed in a coalition airstrike last week on a town in northern Syria. A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, Maj. Curtis Kellogg, confirmed in a statement late Sunday that coalition forces conducted strikes near Bir Mahli last Thursday. He …
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Denmark’s prime minister will travel to Wales to support her British husband who is running for a seat in Wales, where Britain’s Labour party has dominated politics since the 1920s. Her office said Wednesday Helle Thorning-Schmidt will be in the South Wales town of Neath with her …
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MEXICO CITY – A Mexican lawmaker has launched a contest to find a body double that would allow him to be in two places at once and take care of his “many obligations.” Renato Tronco Gomez, an independent deputy in the eastern state of Veracruz, said Friday his novel idea …
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JUBA, South Sudan – The U.N. children’s agency saysdozens of children have been killed, at least 12 raped and others abducted and recruited in a series of attacks in South Sudan’s Unity state over a two-week period. UNICEF said in a statement Monday that witnesses believe the attacks were carried …
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ANKARA, Turkey – An economics adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has two guns and hundreds of bullets and is prepared to use them to protect his boss. Yigit Bulut told state television TRT late Tuesday: “Nobody can touch the elected president of this country before I …
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TIRANA, Albania – Security officials from the western Balkans and several European Union countries are meeting in Albania as part of a U.S. government initiative to fight European recruitment by violent Islamic groups to fight in Iraq and Syria. U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police say they have killed two suspects and arrested seven others in raids on a jihadist organization with possible links to the Islamic State group. National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Agus Rianto said Monday that police fatally shot two men late Sunday in the Central Sulawesi …
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