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MADRID – Spanish clothes retailer Inditex, owner of the Zara store chain, says its net profit rose by 28 per cent in the first quarter following a boost in sales. The company said Wednesday that profit for February through April rose to 521 million euros ($586 million) compared with 406 …

YANGON, Myanmar – A raid by India’s army on insurgents accused of killing 18 Indian soldiers last week took place on Indian soil, not inside Myanmar as some Indian media reported, a Myanmar official said Thursday. Although Myanmar has relatively little control over the porous border region, it would be …

TUNIS, Tunisia – An armed militia stormed into the Tunisian general consulate in Libya’s capital on Friday, taking 10 employees hostage, officials said. Mokhtar Chaouachi, a spokesman for the Tunisian Foreign Ministry, said it was not clear whether the attackers were holding the hostages on site or had taken them …