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MOSCOW – Lawmakers in Russia’s Kremlin-controlled parliament have given tentative approval to a bill that would move up next year’s parliamentary election by three months, a tactic seen by critics as an attempt to weaken the opposition. The lower house voted 339-101 with one abstention Friday to approve the bill …

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – An official in Burundi says four people died and at least 30 were wounded in a grenade attack on a bar in the country’s northern region of Ngozi. Ngozi’s Governor Claude Nahayo said Monday three people have been arrested following the overnight attack in which two grenades …

MOSCOW – Russian police say 15 people have been killed and eight others injured when a passenger bus and a truck collided on a road in Siberia. The LifeNews website published a photograph of the crash, showing the wreckage of a green bus and a Kamaz truck, which had been …