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LISBON, Portugal – A Portuguese actor says he was detained on suspicion of terrorism after meditating and chanting Buddhist texts aboard a plane at Paris Orly airport. Heitor Lourenco, 47, says he was reciting texts in Tibetan from his smartphone screen on the Lisbon-bound Transavia plane when police ordered everybody …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s parliament has approved amendments tightening the country’s asylum system, a response to the record number of migrants and refugees reaching the country over the past year. The plan, sharply criticized by the U.N.’s refugee agency, was approved Monday by lawmakers from the governing Fidesz party, its …

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s revival of a media regulatory group that empowers the government to imprison or fine journalists is raising concerns from press freedom groups. President Maithripala Sirisena made new appointments last week to the council he had dissolved following his shock election victory in January over …