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KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian mourners carried single red carnations and flickering candles during a solemn ceremony early Wednesday to remember the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, an event that continues to scar this ex-Soviet republic 20 years later. The April 26, 1986, pre-dawn explosion became the world’s worst ever nuclear accident, ripping …

KATMANDU, Nepal – Nepal’s communist rebels on Saturday freed eight of the 11 soldiers abducted on their way home just hours after the rebels announced a three-month unilateral cease-fire. The freed soldiers were handed over to representatives of INSEC-Nepal, a human rights group, at Jitpur village, about 500 kilometers (310 …

PARIS – Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into suspected corruption by French companies involved in the U.N. Oil-for-Food program with Iraq, judicial officials said Tuesday. Investigators will initially limit the probe to companies that paid surcharges on humanitarian contracts for trucks, medical equipment and other materials, the officials said. …