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SAN FRANCISCO – A judge says nine San Francisco police officers will remain on paid leave while he decides whether the department waited too long to discipline them in connection with racist text messages. The judge’s decision Monday also barred the San Francisco Police Commission from disciplining the officers until …

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa says it will consider withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as a “last resort” following a dispute over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who visited South Africa this month despite an international order for his arrest for alleged war crimes. The South African government said in a …

PRISTINA, Kosovo – The United States says it won’t block Russia’s attempts to establish a U.N. tribunal to investigate allegations that Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian wartime leaders killed hundreds of Serbs civilians after the country’s lawmakers rejected amendments to the constitution to allow a Western-backed court deal with the claims. The …