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Azerbaijani pro-government politician arrested
Police in Azerbaijan have arrested a politician expelled from the ruling party after being implicated in a corruption scandal over attempts to solicit ...
AP Exclusive: Documents detail Nixon, Clinton ties
Richard Nixon, in the final months of his life, quietly advised President Bill Clinton on navigating the post-Cold War world, even offering to serve ...
Ukraine: 5 dead in crash-landing
A passenger plane carrying soccer fans headed for a match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on ...
Dortmund scores late in 2-2 draw with Shakhtar
Borussia Dortmund twice came from behind to draw 2-2 at Shakhtar Donetsk in the last 16 of the Champions League on Wednesday following Mats Hummels' ...
Spain busts 'ransomware' cybercrime gang
Spanish authorities on Wednesday announced the breakup of a cybercrime gang that used a "ransomware" virus to lock computers throughout Europe, ...
Albanian court cuts sentences over deadly blast
An Albanian appeals court on Wednesday reduced sentences for several top defendants convicted in a deadly ammunition factory blast and acquitted one ...
Syrian rebels close in on Aleppo airport
Syrian rebels knocked down army defenses and moved in on the country's second largest airport Wednesday, reportedly killing more than 40 soldiers and ...
Tora Berger wins women's race at biathlon worlds
Defending champion Tora Berger of Norway won the women's individual race on Wednesday for her third gold medal at the biathlon world championships.
Russian arms trader: Syria shipments will continue
Russia will keep supplying weapons to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime despite the country's escalating civil war, the head of Russia's state ...
Horsemeat scandal exposes complex food chain
First, there was "pink slime." Then horsemeat. Most recently? "Desinewed meat." Recent revelations that such products have reached dinner tables, ...
Jacques Rogge to meet with wrestling leader
Facing a wave of criticism from around the world, IOC President Jacques Rogge will meet with the head of wrestling's governing body to discuss ways ...
Macedonian opposition to boycott local elections
Macedonia's main opposition party says it will boycott next month's local elections, after the governing conservatives refused to call early ...
Crisis-hit Greece backs pipeline for Caspian gas
Greece, Italy and Albania signed an agreement Wednesday backing a proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from the Caspian Sea to western Europe, ...
Chernobyl radiation unaffected after roof collapse
Ukrainian officials on Wednesday sought to reassure the public that radiation levels were unaffected at Chernobyl and there was no safety threat after ...
Ukraine, Turkmens sign tentative natural gas deal
Ukraine reached a tentative agreement with Turkmenistan on Wednesday to resume imports of natural gas from the energy-rich Central Asian nation.
Soccer match-fixers spoke in elaborate codes
At trials in Croatia and Turkey, police wiretaps revealed that those trying to fix soccer matches used elaborate codes to disguise what they were ...
Russia plans to appeal wrestling's drop from games
The head of the Russian Olympic Committee says it plans to appeal to the IOC to restore wrestling in the games. The International Olympic Committee's ...
Player regrets getting entangled with match-fixing
Soccer player Mario Cizmek thought it would just be one match. Ease up and let the other team win, he told himself, then collect the payoff and start ...
Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics
For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...
Soccer faces epic fight against match-fixing
Soccer is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly ...
UK food agency raids abattoir in horsemeat scandal
British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and ...
G7 seeks to defuse currency war fears
The Group of Seven leading industrial nations, which includes the U.S., Japan and Germany, warned Tuesday that volatile movements in exchange rates ...