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UN to Bosnia: Do more for wartime rape victims
The U.N. is urging authorities in Bosnia to form a truth and reconciliation commission that would make the country face up to the mass rapes that ...
UK govt agrees with US assessment on Syria
The British government says it welcomes and agrees with the U.S. assessment that Syrian President Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against ...
Bank of England deputy governor to step down
The Bank of England says its deputy governor Paul Tucker will step down later this year after more than 30 years with the central bank. The bank says ...
Russia disputes US claim on Syria chemical weapons
President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs adviser says Moscow is not convinced with Washington's claim that Syrian regime had used chemical weapons ...
Spain's public debt hits record high
Spain's central bank says the country's public debt burden rose to a record 88.2 percent of gross domestic product at the end of the first quarter.
Dutch high court rules against Aegon
The Netherlands' Supreme Court has upheld a ruling against insurer Aegon NV, finding that found it misled thousands of investors. In a case launched ...
Sevilla signs Romania forward Raul Rusescu
Sevilla has signed Romania forward Raul Rusescu to a five-year contract following the exit of winger Jesus Navas to Manchester City. Rusescu, who ...
Sinclair, Evans for Canada; Ireland to debut 1
Canada lock Jebb Sinclair and winger Matt Evans have overcome concussion concerns to start against Ireland at BMO Field on Saturday. Sinclair, Evans ...
Euro fund chief: do without IMF in long term
The head of Europe's bailout fund says the region should eventually aim to do without help from the International Monetary Fund. Klaus Regling's ...
European growth less urgent for US at G-8 summit
A year after President Barack Obama made an emphatic pitch to Europe's economic powers to focus more on economic growth than austerity, much of the ...
World's oldest Jewish person dies in US at 113
The world's oldest Jewish person, Evelyn Kozak, whose family fled Russia to escape anti-Semitism, has died at age 113. Kozak died Tuesday after ...
Australia fines, suspends Warner after bar attack
David Warner heaped more embarrassment on Australia's embattled cricket team ahead of the Ashes when the hot-headed batsman was suspended Thursday and ...
No clear result after Turkish PM, protesters meet
A meeting between Turkey's prime minister and representatives of anti-government protesters ended early Friday without a clear resolution on how to ...
Bolt runs track record 19.79 over 200 at Bislett
Piqued by suggestions of a possible decline, Usain Bolt responded with a blistering season debut at 200 meters and a new track record at the Bislett ...
UN says nearly 93,000 killed in Syrian civil war
Syrians are being killed at an average rate of 5,000 per month, the U.N. said Thursday as it raised the overall death toll in the civil war to nearly ...
US announces recovery of missing Nazi diary
U.S. authorities have recovered about 400 handwritten pages from the wartime diary of a key Nazi adviser to Adolf Hitler after a 17-year search for ...
UN asks Austria to delay pullout from Golan
The U.N. peacekeeping department asked Austria Thursday to delay its full troop withdrawal from the Golan Heights until at least the end of July to ...
Putin: IMF needs reform
Russian President Vladimir Putin, preparing for next week's G-8 summit, says reforming the International Monetary Fund should be a top issue among the ...
Sri Lanka beats England to stay alive in Trophy
Sri Lanka made light of an imposing target of 294 by beating England with 17 balls to spare to stay alive in the Champions Trophy on Thursday.
Expert: Dying woman should have got Irish abortion
A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her ...
Bolt runs track record 19.79 in 200 at Bislett
Usain Bolt rallied from a rare defeat with a track record at the Bislett Games on Thursday in his debut 200 meters of the season. Bolt silenced ...
Top-seeded Flipkens out of Aegon Classic
Top-seeded Kirsten Flipkens was eliminated from the Aegon Classic on Thursday, leaving just four seeded players remaining in the quarterfinals of the ...