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ATHENS, Greece – The leaders of Greece’s Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party will go on trial for allegedly running a criminal organization on April 20 — the birthday of Adolf Hitler. The trial will be held in a special courtroom inside a maximum-security Athens prison. The 70 defendants include all 18 …

ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish official says the Coast Guard has fired on and stopped a migrant ship, detaining 337 mostly Syrian refugees who were hoping to illegally reach Italy. Gov. Ahmet Cinar of Canakkale province said Friday that the Coast Guard fired on the freighter’s engine room off the …

BERLIN – Greece’s finance minister says a video apparently showing him raising his middle finger to Germany is fake. The video was shown on German television late Sunday during a political talk show in which Yanis Varoufakis had been invited to discuss Greece’s debt woes and relations with Germany. In …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey is marking the centenary of its WWI naval victory over the Allied forces in the battle of Gallipoli. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday led commemorations at a stadium in Canakkale, northwest Turkey. Prayers were held in mosques for the soldiers who lost their lives in …

MEXICO CITY – About 40 buses blocked one of the main highways leading north out of Mexico City in a protest over the latest killing aboard a bus by thieves. Bus routes around Mexico City have become a favored hunting ground for bands of thieves who board buses, draw weapons …

FRANKFURT, Germany – Germanwings, a low-cost unit of Lufthansa, had recorded no accidents involving passenger deaths until one of its planes crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 on board. Aviation accident databases such as aviation-safety.net showed no fatalities since the carrier was founded in 2002. Airline …

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – A local official says residents in eastern Cameroon killed “several” suspected fighters from Central African Republic who were trying to carry out a large-scale kidnapping. Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua said the incident occurred late Saturday night near the border town of Garoua-Boulai. He said 15 heavily armed …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Bosnia’s war crimes court has confirmed a genocide indictment against a Serb lawmaker over the executions of Srebrenica Muslims during the country’s 1992-95 war. Dragomir Vasic, a lawmaker in the parliament of Republika Srpska — one of Bosnia’s two independent administrative parts — is accused of participating …

BEIJING – China says police shot and killed six would-be bombers in the latest violence in the far northwestern region of Xinjiang. The official TS News website said police were called to a business district in the town of Shule on Monday morning. It said a man was shot and …

BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry says that new commercial flight routes off China’s southeast coast that Taiwan objects to are part of an effort to ease the country’s chronic flight delays. China’s Civil Aviation Administration says it will open four new routes from March 5. Taiwan has complained that one …