LISBON, Portugal – Portuguese authorities say a 6-year-old girl has died after a yacht sank in the mid-Atlantic at night and she spent about seven hours in the water amid 10-meter (33-feet) waves. The Portuguese Navy said in a statement Thursday that a French yacht carrying what was believed to …
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KHAR, Pakistan – A government official says a roadside bomb has targeted an anti-Taliban tribal elder, killing him and his five aides in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border. Local government official Fayyaz Khan said the attack Monday in Mamound saw a remote-controlled bomb explode as the elder’s car passed …
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MADRID – Spain’s foreign minister says the security chief for the country’s embassy in Brazil, under investigation in a homicide case, could lose his diplomatic immunity if the probe determines that the case is domestic violence. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo on Wednesday declined to provide details about the investigation of Jesus …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it is rushing aid to nearly 25,000 people fleeing Ramadi for the second time in a month after the Islamic State group seized the key Iraqi city. The deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, Farhan Haq, told reporters Tuesday that most of those …
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BERLIN – Germany’s Interior Ministry says it has appointed two Jews to a new commission on anti-Semitism in response to criticism that there was none among the original eight experts chosen. The ministry said Thursday that Marina Chernivsky, of a Berlin-based organization that fights anti-Semitism and xenophobia, and Andreas Nachama, …
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YOLA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s military says troops have killed scores of Islamic extremists and rescued 20 women and children from captivity even as reports come in of Boko Haram fighters slitting villagers’ throats and chopping them to death. That bolsters reports the insurgents are running out of ammunition and resorting …
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VIENNA – An Austrian court has found a 14-year-old boy guilty of planning to blow up Vienna’s main railway station after being radicalized by Islamic extremists. The court also found the defendant guilty of planning to join extremist fighters in the Middle East, a punishable offense in Austria. The unidentified …
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LONDON – It was one small ban for mankinis, one giant step for an English seaside resort town. Officials in Newquay say crime has fallen since they cracked down on stag parties with revelers wearing the revealing one-piece garments. The town in southwest England is a haven for surfers and …
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BEIRUT – A fuel tank exploded inside a clinic in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern Syrian town of Qamishli Sunday, killing at least 25 people, including children, state TV and activists said. The Syrian TV report said the explosion also wounded 30. Juan Mohammed, a Kurdish official in the nearby city …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official IRNA news agency says at least 25 Iraqi tourists died after their bus careened into a river valley in a mountainous part of Iran. The report quotes Mahdi Valipour, a local Red Crescent official, as saying 15 passengers were injured and that others may have …
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