MEXICO CITY – Gunfights and blockades of burning vehicles have been reported in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas. The U.S. consulate in Matamoros said in message Friday that it had “learned of several firefights and roadblocks throughout the city of Reynosa,” and it recommended that …
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UNITED NATIONS – A new United Nations report says the Islamic State group has more than 225,000 Syrians under siege in a single city. The latest monthly report by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the last time the U.N. was able to reach the besieged western neighborhoods of Deir ez Zor …
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IQALUIT, Canada – Secretary of State John Kerry is backing Saudi Arabian airstrikes against Houthi rebels as long as the rebels persist in attacking Yemeni government forces. Kerry is crediting the Saudis with making an important shift from a full-scale air campaign to hitting targets only when militants present a …
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s outspoken finance minister says he and his wife came under attack by anarchists while dining in a central Athens restaurant. Yanis Varoufakis said Wednesday he and his wife were in the Exarhia district, a neighborhood popular with extreme leftists and anarchists, Tuesday night when a group …
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MEXICO CITY – The legislature in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has condemned the killing of a local mayoral candidate. A statement late Friday from Guerrero’s congress reported the killing of Ulises Fabian Quiroz, who was a candidate for mayor of Chilapa for the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party-Green party …
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Swiss bank UBS Group AG says net profit almost doubled in the first quarter as money from rich clients flowed into its wealth management businesses. The company said Tuesday that its net profit rose to 1.977 billion Swiss francs ($2.12 billion) in the January to March quarter …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli police say an American tourist has died while hiking during a heatwave in Israel on a trial leading to the ancient Jewish desert fortress of Masada. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says the 20-year-old woman from Florida fell about 5 meters (about 16 feet) at the site of …
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