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PARIS – French authorities have opened a formal judicial inquiry into alleged sexual abuse of children by French troops in the Central African Republic. The move hands the investigation to independent judges instead of the Paris prosecutor’s office, in an acknowledgment of the seriousness and complexity of the accusations, amid …

SEOUL, South Korea – The North Korean military general believed behind two attacks on South Korea that killed 50 people in 2010 has died. He was 77. The North’s main Rodong sinmun newspaper said Monday that Kim Kyok Sik died of an acute respiratory failure on Sunday. Kim is the …

PARIS – A French court has said it’s unclear what caused a French trawler to sink over a decade ago off the British coast, killing five people. The entire crew of the Bugaled Breizh drowned when it capsized and sank 14 miles off the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on January …