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The South Korea-born pastor of a suburban Toronto church has failed to return from a humanitarian trip to North Korea, causing the Canadian government to try to ascertain his whereabouts. Officials at the Light Korean Presbyterian Church, based in Mississauga, Ontario, told Reuters that they had not heard from 60-year-old …

BRUSSELS – The European Union has extended for a year an asset freeze on former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and others in his administration linked to the misuse of state funds. The EU said in a statement Thursday that its measures target “persons subject to initial investigations on the embezzlement …

BERLIN – Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, some 58 percent of Germans say the past should be consigned to history, while three-quarters of Israelis reject the idea of putting the past behind them. Some 48 percent of Germans also say their opinion of today’s Israel is “poor” and …