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MEXICO CITY – Mexican journalist Pedro Ferriz says he was robbed at gunpoint while webcasting and he kept recording, taping part of his own robbery. Ferriz was speaking into a cellphone app in a car in Mexico City when he was robbed of his watch and phone by an assailant …

BEIRUT – Activists say a tunnel explosion in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has lightly damaged the wall of the city’s famous citadel. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday the tunnel was dug by rebels before it was discovered by troops who detonated it. The Observatory …

MEXICO CITY – The Uber ride-sharing app praised Mexico City’s decision to become the first city in Latin America — and the largest in the world — to issue official regulations for such smartphone-based services. Uber’s spokesman for Mexico and Central America says the company doesn’t mind paying 1.5 percent …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A former Canadian law enforcement officer who was in charge when police used an electroshock weapon on a Polish immigrant, causing his death has been given a two-year jail term for perjury during a public inquiry into the incident. Former corporal Benjamin Robinson was found guilty …

Russia Wednesday vetoed the Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution that would have established a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine last year. The foreign ministers of Netherlands, Australia, and Ukraine have been attending a meeting over the shooting down of the plane on …

LONDON – British authorities are investigating how a Sudanese migrant managed to walk nearly the entire length of the 31-mile (50-kilometer) Channel Tunnel from Calais before being stopped. Kent police say Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, has been charged with causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage using the railway. …

CAIRO – Egypt has rejected an offer by Qatar to mediate with the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, focus of a government crackdown since the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president in 2013. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Abu-Zeid said Sunday that Egypt does not accept any external interference in its internal affairs, …

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – A Cameroon troop commander says forces killed 10 suspected Boko Haram fighters who had launched an attack on a town bordering Nigeria. Col. Jacob Kodji said Tuesday that hundreds of fighters entered the border town of Ashigashia in Cameroon early Tuesday, shooting into the air. He said …

MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister is meeting with a delegation of the main Syrian opposition group, part of the Kremlin’s new push for a mediation role in the Syrian conflict. Sergey Lavrov held talks Thursday with the leadership of the Syrian National Coalition, which had previously refused to visit Russia. …

PARIS – French authorities say a man wanted in connection with a heist at a luxury watch store in the chic Cote d’Azur resort of Cannes has been arrested in Morocco. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says in a statement Monday that the suspect, a Franco-Moroccan named Nabil Ibelati, was arrested …