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BERLIN – A union representing Lufthansa pilots has called a one-day strike at the German airline’s long-distance and cargo operations on Tuesday — the latest in a string of walkouts. The Vereinigung Cockpit union has hit various Lufthansa units with more than a dozen short-term walkouts over recent months. The …

No time is a good time for an epic humanitarian crisis. But Europe today seems woefully unprepared for the human wave from the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa and reaching all the way to Afghanistan. I was overseas for much of the last few weeks and had a chance to …

BEIJING – A Chinese man reportedly held hostage by the Islamic State group worked in advertising and TV production and describes himself as a free spirit and reader of Greek philosophy. The radical group released a poster on Wednesday with an image of the man, identified as Fan Jinghui, and …