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MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister says he expects the prospective Syria peace talks in Moscow to be a success despite reports about some key opposition groups’ refusal to attend. Sergey Lavrov on Friday cast those reports as part of “tactical maneuvering” ahead of the negotiations, but he wouldn’t say whom …

PARIS – Four men appeared in a Paris court Tuesday, the first to face charges in the Paris terror attacks that left 20 people dead, including three gunmen. French authorities also arrested five ethnic Chechens from Russia in raids in southern France, including one whom a mayor said was found …

DAVOS, Switzerland – Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has denied reports that the country has modelled a potential Greek exit — the so-called “Grexit” — from the 19-country eurozone. Speaking at a panel Friday at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, Schaeuble said “we don’t model …