BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau – Guinea-Bissau’s president has dismissed the government amid mounting tensions between the leader and the prime minister. President Jose Mario Vaz late Wednesday accused the government of corruption, nepotism and obstruction of justice. He dismissed Prime Minister Domingos Pereira and his cabinet with immediate effect, saying a reshuffle …
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ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani government says a senior Cabinet minister has resigned from his post after claiming in an interview that the country’s former spy master Zaheerul Islam wanted to overthrow Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif through violent rallies in Islamabad last year. Pakistan Minister of Information Pervez Rashid says Mushahidullah …
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s beleaguered prime minister faces a political test next month as an opinion poll shows his center-right party faces a large swing against it in a by-election in the nation’s most conservative state. Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s ruling coalition is battling poor polling and internal division over …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities say two separate attacks by Palestinian have injured an Israeli toddler and a soldier. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said Palestinians threw rocks at an Israeli car near Jerusalem lightly injuring the driver and a 2-year-old girl. Later the Israeli military said a soldier was wounded when …
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BERLIN – Authorities in Germany say they have arrested a Somali man suspected of being among a group of pirates who seized a German freighter four years ago. The MV Susan K, operated by a German shipping firm, was hijacked off the coast of Oman in 2011. Pirates held the …
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LONDON – The British government has rewarded advisers, staff and defeated or retired lawmakers with seats in the House of Lords. The prime minister’s office on Thursday announced 45 new peers, including former Conservative Foreign Secretary William Hague, former Treasury chief Alistair Darling of the Labour Party and ex-Liberal Democrat …
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PARIS – French authorities have handed two journalists preliminary extortion charges on accusations that they tried to blackmail Moroccan King Mohammed VI. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Saturday that French writers Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet were released under judicial supervision after being given the charges. A French lawyer for …
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BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she’s open to holding a new summit with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and France but that there would have to be hope of progress for it to make sense. France and Russia issued statements talking of a possible summit with Ukraine’s leader …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities say five American students escaped serious harm after their car was firebombed in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron. Officials said the ultra-Orthodox seminary students were on their way to pray at a holy site when they took a wrong turn and accidentally entered a …
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MADRID – Spanish authorities who raided what is thought to be the country’s largest outdoor marijuana planation didn’t have far to look for the prime suspect. He was in jail. The 47-year-old Spaniard arranged for others to cultivate a three-hectare (7.4 acre) olive grove he had purchased while on prison …
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