CANBERRA, Australia – Relatives of two Australian death row prisoners have made their first visit to the Indonesian prison island…
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Power transmission glitch causes outage in several Turkish cities
ANKARA, Turkey – Officials say a glitch at Turkey’s electricity power transmission network has caused power outages in several cities,…
Read MoreAfghanistan detains 2 alleged members of Taliban splinter group that killed Swedish journalist
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan has arrested two alleged militants from a Taliban splinter group that claimed responsibility for killing a…
Read MorePolice say mother in Czech Republic suspected of killing 3 newborn babies
PRAGUE – Police say that a mother in the Czech Republic is suspected of killing three of her newborn babies.…
Read More40 percent of flights canceled in France because of air-traffic controllers’ strike
PARIS – French air traffic controllers went on strike Wednesday, prompting the cancellation of 40 percent of flights across France.…
Read MoreBrazil executives linked to Petrobras case freed from prison, remain under house arrest
RIO DE JANEIRO – Top executives from several big Brazilian construction and engineering firms have been released from prison but…
Read MoreSouth Africa: Mother of woman killed by Pistorius says she doesn’t care about harsher sentence
JOHANNESBURG – The mother of the South African woman killed by athlete Oscar Pistorius said on Tuesday that she does…
Read MoreThousands of workers strike for 6th day at major shoe factory in southern Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam – Thousands of Vietnamese workers at a major footwear factory are on strike for the sixth straight day…
Read MoreFrance: NATO jet crashed after Greek crew tried to eject after takeoff failure, killing 11
PARIS – The head of France’s air force says the crash of a NATO jet in Spain that left 11…
Read MoreUN Security Council to meet Wednesday in emergency session on Libya
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council will meet in an emergency session Wednesday on the crisis in Libya. The…
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