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The Chicago Cubs appear to have made one of the biggest moves of the MLB offseason Tuesday after the team tentatively agreed to a contract with Japanese left-hander Shota Imanaga, according to multiple reports. The southpaw would still need to undergo a medical review, scheduled for Thursday in Chicago. Imanaga …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s military says two rockets fired from Gaza have exploded in the country’s south causing no injuries. It said sirens wailed late Wednesday night warning of the incoming rockets. The Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza said militants were evacuating their posts in anticipation of Israeli retaliation. …

ATHENS, Greece – The United Nations refugee agency says an estimated 42,000 migrants have reached Greek shores since the start of the year — six times more than in the same period last year and almost as many as those arriving in Italy. The number is close to the total …

CAIRO – Foreign ministers from Algeria, Egypt and Italy called for a peaceful political solution in Libya on Sunday, saying that stability in the war-torn country would lead to reduced illegal migration to Europe. Egypt and Algeria both have long, porous borders with Libya. Thousands of migrants seeking a better …

MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister has rejected allegations that Moscow was trying to develop closer ties with Latin American nations as a countermove to the United States amid the Ukrainian crisis. Speaking after Tuesday’s talks with his Salvadoran counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia’s ties with Latin American countries …

IRBIL, Iraq – An American fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said Wednesday, likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside them against the extremists. Keith Broomfield of Massachusetts died June 3 in a battle in the Syrian …

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Few people in Zimbabwe have responded to the government’s offer to trade in the country’s old currency for U.S. dollars. Even those that carted in the trillions of Zimbabwe dollars that stopped being used in 2009 expressed dissatisfaction with how little they were receiving in return. Alice …

United Nations Security Council diplomats were unable to come to a consensus on condemning Syria for the killings of hundreds of its civilians Wednesday, giving a victory to the Assad regime while Iranian diplomats watched intently from the sidelines. An earlier draft of a non-binding press statement championed by the …

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s Information Ministry has filed a contempt of court complaint against the publisher and 16 editorial employees of a newspaper it is already suing for defamation, an action critics charge is an attempt at intimidation ahead of elections set for later this year. The editor-in-chief of the …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Anti-corruption prosecutors have indicted an aide to Romania’s prime minister on corruption charges including being an accomplice to embezzling European Union funds and cheating in the presidential election. Prosecutors said Wednesday that lawmaker Sebastian Ghita was charged with influence peddling, tax evasion and money laundering worth millions …