BERLIN – Soren Kam, a former SS officer wanted for war crimes in his native Denmark, has died in Germany. He was 93. The Simon Wiesenthal Center counted Kam among its top targets for the killing of an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943. The center’s top Nazi hunter, …
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – State media in Ivory Coast says two soldiers have been killed in a raid on military posts in the southwest of the country. The Ivorian Press Agency said the attack began early Saturday morning in the town of Grabo, near the border with Liberia. The soldiers …
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NEAK LOEUNG, Cambodia – Hun Sen, Cambodia’s tough and wily prime minister, marked 30 years in power Wednesday, one of just a handful of political strongmen worldwide who have managed to cling to their posts for three decades. Since first taking up the job of prime minister at age 33, …
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VILNIUS, Lithuania – Lithuania’s defense ministry is advising its citizens how to react in case of war, reflecting jitters over neighboring Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and a recent increase of reported airspace violations in the Baltic region. The 98-page booklet is to be distributed next week in Lithuania, a NATO …
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TOKYO – The Japanese central bank says the world’s third largest economy will suffer a contraction in its nearly ended current fiscal year but then rebound. The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting Wednesday without any major change to its ultra-loose monetary policy. Its massive asset purchases are injecting …
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BERLIN – Germany’s ver.di trade union says private security personnel at the country’s Duesseldorf and Cologne-Bonn airports will stage a one-day warning strike Thursday in an ongoing dispute over wages. Union representative Andrea Becker told the dpa news agency Wednesday that after three unsuccessful rounds of talks, ver.di hopes to …
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine air force said one of its Italian-made light planes crashed at sea on a training mission Saturday, killing the two pilots. The single-prop SF-260FH was flying in formation with two other planes on a training flight when it crashed off Nasugbo township in Batangas province …
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of three anti-gay protesters convicted of attacking police guarding the Budapest Pride march in 2011 because it considered the sentence too lenient. A statement Wednesday from the Kuria, as the court is now called, said the sentence condemning the unidentified …
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LONDON – A British jihadi who faked his death in an attempt to secretly return to England from Syria was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. Imran Khawaja, who joined a faction aligned with the Islamic State group and attended an extremist training camp in Syria for six months, …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s governor has unveiled details of his plan to overhaul the island’s tax system, including the creation of a new 16 percent value-added tax. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said Tuesday in a pre-recorded televised message that he would file the measure Wednesday as he …
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