BERLIN – German prosecutors say they have charged four men with supporting the Islamic State group, one of them by helping smuggle would-be members to Syria. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they filed charges of supporting a foreign terrorist organization against a Tunisian citizen identified only as Kemal Ben Yahia …
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CANBERRA, Australia – An Indonesian envoy says that Indonesian President Joko Widodo has been too busy during the past three weeks to accept a phone call from the Australian prime minister to plead for the lives of two death row prisoners. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters on March …
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MOSCOW – Russia’s military is holding maneuvers of air defense forces in the southwest of the country, the latest in a series of frequent drills amid tensions with the West. The Southern Military District, where the exercises will take place, includes the regions bordering Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula, which …
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PARIS – The Paris prosecutor’s office says authorities have found phones, USB flash drives and other equipment during searches of about 80 prison cells of Islamic radicals after terrorist attacks earlier this month. The prosecutor’s office said Monday that investigators are analyzing the material found in the searches. Two of …
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MADRID – The Spanish foreign ministry has summoned the Venezuelan ambassador to protest against comments by the Venezuelan president against Spain after the Spanish Parliament passed a motion calling for the release of opposition leaders jailed in the South American country. The ministry said in a statement that Venezuelan ambassador …
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BUENOS AIRES – Two Argentine judges are under fire for cutting the sentence of a convicted child abuser on the grounds that his 6-year-old victim had suffered earlier abuse and therefore had already been traumatized. In the newly publicized 2014 ruling, the judges cut the child abuser’s sentence from six …
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was forced to scramble its air forces more than 300 times in response to Russian military aircraft over the course of 2023, the international organization said Friday. “NATO has standing air-policing missions that calls for Allied jets to scramble when there are signs of …
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – The Hungarian government says it will complete by Aug. 31 the construction of a fence meant to stop the flow of immigrants and refugees entering through its southern border with Serbia. Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said that Interior Minister Sandor Pinter assured the Cabinet at its meeting …
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UNITED NATIONS – A new United Nations report says the world’s number of asylum claims is at its highest in 22 years, with fleeing Syrians and Iraqis leading the way. The report by the U.N. refugee agency released Thursday estimates that applications for asylum in industrialized countries reached 866,000 last …
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LONDON – Audio tapes in which the man identified as “Jihadi John” complains about scrutiny from British intelligence services have been broadcast in Britain. The tapes contained a man identified as Mohammed Emwazi describing to the Muslim advocacy group CAGE his encounters with British agents in 2009. They were played …
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