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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Swedish police says two suspects arrested after a deadly knife attack at an Ikea store in central Sweden were born in Eritrea and live in a nearby asylum center, adding the motive for the stabbing remains unknown. Police spokesman Per Agren says it seems there was “no …

MADRID – Spain’s Socialist Party has asked prosecutors to investigate a meeting the country’s interior minister had with Rodrigo Rato, the former International Monetary Fund chief under investigation on suspicion of fraud and money-laundering. The leading opposition party said Thursday it wants authorities to determine if Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez …

Oscar Pistorius is scheduled to be released from prison on Friday after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for the fatal shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, USA Today reports. The former paralympic runner was convicted of killing Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day in 2013. Pistorius claimed he mistook his …

DAKAR, Senegal – The son of Senegal’s former President Abdoulaye Wade lost a bid to be freed from his six-year prison sentence when the Supreme Court rejected an appeal on his conviction. Karim Wade, who held several high level Cabinet positions in his father’s government, was convicted in March on …

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is extending indefinitely the closure of a popular border crossing with Colombia and declaring a 60-day state of emergency in several western cities. Maduro earlier in the week announced a 72-hour closure of the normally busy crossing in Tachira state in response to …

ATHENS, Greece – Two Greek coast guard vessels are searching the waters off the eastern coast of the island of Lesbos for four people still missing after a dinghy carrying migrants or refugees capsized while making its way across from the nearby Turkish coast. The search continued Tuesday, a day …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. envoy for Libya says he is “increasingly confident” that U.N.-brokered peace talks are in their final stages, and he is urging both sides not to squander the opportunity. Libya has slid into chaos since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that ended Moammar Gadhafi’s four-decade reign. The …

GAUHATI, India – India’s army says it has killed five insurgents from a Naga rebel group months after it carried out an attack on the military in the country’s remote northeastern region bordering Myanmar. Col. Newton, an army spokesman who uses one name, says the soldiers attacked the rebels on …

QUETTA, Pakistan – Authorities say gunmen have attacked a small airport in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing one official there and kidnapping another. Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Pervez George says armed men on motorcycles stormed Baluchistan province’s Jewni airport early Sunday and destroyed navigational equipment there after killing the official on …

UNITED NATIONS – The Holy See says it will not raise its flag at the United Nations before Pope Francis addresses the world body later this month even if the General Assembly approves a resolution on the issue Thursday. If passed, the resolution would allow non-member observer states to fly …