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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 …

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has yet another strange bedfellow in its expanding ecological alliance, hosting anti-capitalist eco-crusader Naomi Klein at a conference on saving the planet. Klein, author of “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” acknowledged Wednesday that she never expected to be invited to the Vatican, “as …

BAMAKO, Mali – The United Nations says six peacekeepers have been killed and five wounded in an attack on their convoy in north Mali. A statement by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali says the attack happened Thursday morning while the convoy patrolled the road between Goundam and Timbuktu, about …

LONDON – A small group of neo-Nazis have staged an anti-Semitic rally in London, but were hugely outnumbered by counter-demonstrators. About 20 far-right activists protested in central London against Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood watch group. They had planned to rally in north London’s Golders Green area, home to a large …

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – The lawyer for Guinea’s ex-junta leader in exile in Burkina Faso says Moussa “Dadis” Camara has been indicted for the deaths of more than 156 people who had gathered at an opposition rally in 2009. The lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Haba, said Guinean magistrates arrived in Ouagadougou and …

BERLIN – The estate of the Germanwings co-pilot believed to have intentionally crashed Flight 9525 in March has been declared bankrupt after no heirs came forward. Insolvency attorney Joachim Glaeser said Friday that his filing this week in a court in Montabaur, co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s hometown, was a procedural measure …

LONDON – A former Euroskeptic member of the European Parliament has been sentenced to five years in prison for fraudulently claiming almost 500,000 pounds ($777,000) in expenses. Ashley Mote was convicted of submitting bogus expenses claims and using the money to pay for his mortgage and legal battles over an …

BEIJING – China’s Defense Ministry is accusing the U.S. of militarizing the South China Sea amid increasingly bold moves by Beijing to assert its claim to virtually the entire region. The remarks from spokesman Yang Yujun at a monthly news conference were prompted by comments last week from the head …

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Some buses in the capital of El Salvador have stopped running after two drivers were killed and rumors circulated that the Central American country’s “Mara” street gangs planned to burn buses. Authorities in San Salvador added supplementary service using government-owned buses Monday after some lines …