JERUSALEM – Israel’s state archive says Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann was allowed to see his wife shortly before his 1962 execution. The archive produced records on Monday of Vera Eichmann’s visit to Israel and logs of her spending 80 minutes with her husband in prison. Israel permitted the visit as …
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ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish government official says police have detained a 22-year-old French woman after she crossed into Turkey from Syria where she had joined the Islamic State militant group and married a fighter. The official said Friday that Sonia Belayati was detained earlier this week in Sanliurfa province …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says the ambassador to Brazil has been recalled after that country’s senate passed a resolution recognizing the massacres of Armenians a century ago as genocide. The ministry said late Monday that Ambassador Huseyin Dirioz was returning to Ankara for consultations over what it termed …
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LUCKNOW, India – Police are investigating the death of a journalist set on fire after he accused a state minister of being involved in illegal mining and land seizures in northern India. The freelance journalist, Joginder Singh, gave a statement to a magistrate before dying Monday from burns covering 60 …
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NEW DELHI – Nestle India says it will destroy instant noodles worth 3.2 billion rupees ($50 million) following a sales ban imposed by Indian food safety authorities for unsafe levels of lead. India’s food safety panel says tests conducted across the country found that Nestle’s Maggi noodles contained lead at …
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MEXICO CITY – Honduran soldiers are taking over public hospitals and medicine storage warehouses to guarantee the supply of drugs to patients after a recent fraud and graft scandal rocked the Social Security Institute. President Juan Orlando Hernandez says the army will perform an inventory to determine whether there are …
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“They cheated us again and again, made decisions behind our back, presenting us with completed facts,” he said. “That’s the way it was with the expansion of NATO in the East, with the deployment of military infrastructure at our borders. They always told us the same thing: ‘Well, this doesn’t …
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CHISINAU, Moldova – Moldova’s president has appointed the country’s pro-European foreign minister as interim prime minister after her predecessor resigned amid a probe of his high school diploma. Nicolae Timofte named 46-year-old Natalia Gherman, who has been foreign minister since 2013, as the interim prime minister Monday. Chiril Gaburici resigned …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A Dutch court ordered the government to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent by 2020 in a groundbreaking ruling Wednesday that activists hope will set a worldwide precedent. The Hague District Court made the ruling in a case brought by a …
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JOHANNESBURG – President Jacob Zuma of South Africa says a government-appointed panel found evidence of “defective” police planning in an investigation of the police killings of 34 striking miners near Marikana in 2012. Zuma said on national television Thursday night that the commission recommended that state prosecutors determine whether any …
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