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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 …

PARIS – The Eurostar train service is resuming full service but experiencing delays, two days after smoky cargo caused a shutdown of traffic beneath the English Channel. Eurostar warned of delays of about an hour on trains Monday. Thousands of passengers were stranded or had their travel disrupted when all …

ALGIERS, Algeria – Algeria’s prime minister says that plans to drill the country’s abundant shale gas reserves have been scrapped. Wednesday’s statement comes in the wake of a string of protests in the southern desert cities over environmental concerns near where drilling had already begun. Despite high profile announcements in …

TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s powerful Islamist party has said that it won’t back the country’s new coalition government in an upcoming confidence vote. The nationalist Nida Tunis party defeated the Islamist Ennahda Party in parliamentary elections in October and on Friday presented its new coalition government. The coalition, however, includes …

LONDON – The British government says files from three judge-led inquiries — two of them into killings by police — have been lost in the mail. The Justice Ministry said Thursday that two discs containing documents were reported missing Jan. 8 “having been dispatched by post.” It said “intensive searches” …

BRUSSELS – The European Union is insisting on an independent investigation after Macedonia’s opposition leader was accused of plotting a coup and prevented from leaving the country. EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said Monday that the 28-nation bloc demands “an independent and transparent investigation in case of any wrongdoing.” Macedonia, once …

BEIJING – Authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai say they have seized 2.4 tons of methamphetamine in one of the country’s largest drug busts. Shanghai police said Thursday on their official microblog that they arrested 28 people in the joint operation with police from the southern province of …