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BEIJING – Chinese police fatally shot a man in northern China who was on his way to Beijing to ask the central government to help house and take care of his sons and elderly mother. His relatives received approval for the aid three days after the Saturday killing. Lawyer Xie …

SYLHET, Bangladesh – Police say masked men hacked a blogger and author to death near his home in northeastern Bangladesh while he was on his way to his job at a bank. Police official Rahmat Ullah says Ananta Bijoy Das died instantly after the attack Tuesday in Sylhet city. It …

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Officials said Thursday they are investigating allegations that millions of dollars embezzled from Honduras’ social security institute might have been used to finance the governing National Party. The Public Ministry said in a statement that authorities were studying checks from supplier companies to the agency’s director and …

ANKARA, Turkey – A news agency says at least two people have been injured in two simultaneous explosions in buildings housing the local headquarters of a pro-Kurdish political party. The Dogan news agency says the explosions occurred Monday at People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, branches in the southern cities of …

KIEV, Ukraine – Ukraine’s parliament has voted to suspend military cooperation with Russia in a long-anticipated move signaling a further break in relations between the once-close partners. The five cooperation agreements scrapped Thursday by the Verkhovna Rada include one giving the Russian military transit rights to reach Moldova, whose territory …

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican bank said Monday its profit soared by more than 20 times last year as it recovered from a trading loss and continued its reform process away from its scandal-marred past. The bank, officially called the Institute for Religious Works, said it earned 69.3 million euros …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch police say they have detained 19 people, most of them members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang, in coordinated raids that spread into neighboring Belgium and Germany. The cross-border operation early Wednesday involved riot police, specialist arrest squads and a police helicopter. They targeted 30 locations …

ANKARA, Turkey – The Istanbul prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation of newspaper editor following the publication of images of truckloads of ammunition, which the paper says proved that a convoy which was stopped on its way to Syria on a Turkish intelligence mission was carrying arms to rebels. The …

BERLIN – Germany’s labor minister is backtracking from a new rule stipulating that old-fashioned jump-on, jump-off elevators can only be used by trained personnel, a restriction that was met with media mockery. The rule came into effect on Monday, effectively barring visitors from riding the so-called paternoster elevators that survive …

Iraq’s top court ruled Tuesday that the speaker and a rival lawmaker should be ousted from Parliament, following a high-profile feud between the two men. The Federal Supreme Court said in a statement it decided to terminate Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi’s membership in Parliament along with that of lawmaker Laith al-Dulaimi. …