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MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors in the Mexican border state of Baja California say the 19-year-old daughter of a Russian woman has confessed to killing and dismembering her mother and her 12-year-old sister, because she thought they were performing witchcraft against her. An official of the state prosecutors’ office who was …

MEXICO CITY – Some coastal towns closed their schools and small boats were ordered off the sea near the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta as a weakening Hurricane Carlos swirled up Mexico’s southwestern coast. Carlos lost power Tuesday night, with its sustained winds barely strong enough to make it …

The Obama administration seems to have to have put itself in the firing line over its handling of the crisis in Syria by not stopping the Mideast country from being elected to a UNESCO committee that deals with human rights. Critics say that granting Syria a seat on the committee, …

Sometimes I feel like I’m becoming a “Tiger Dad.” At other times I feel like a wimp Western father who questions if we are being too hard on our kids. The recently published book the “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” by Yale Law Professor Amy Chua had a huge …

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ deputy government spokesman has denied allegations by British holidaymakers of an attempted abduction of their children at their hotel. Viktoras Papadopoulos Friday called the heavy media play the allegations got in Britain “unnecessary and completely unfounded.” Papadopoulos says police found nothing to incriminate a 19-year-old Bulgarian …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s prime minister says the Australian, Malaysian and Dutch governments will hold services on July 17 to mark the first anniversary of the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives. Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament on Monday that …

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia has unveiled a monument to Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo helped ignite World War I and still provokes controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans. Hundreds of citizens attended the ceremony in central Belgrade on Sunday — the day of the 1914 …

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s government is holding its first ever away session in the coal mining region of Silesia, where it is to approve a major plan to stimulate industry and the job market. Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz convened the weekly session Tuesday in the southern city of Katowice, to …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi military says a soldier posted along the country’s southern border has died of wounds sustained from a missile strike launched by Shiite rebels inside Yemen. The rebels, known as Houthis, frequently fire missiles from inside Yemen at Saudi border posts. More than two dozen …

ISLAMABAD – State-run Pakistani TV says at least two cars of a train have fallen into a canal because of a bridge collapse, killing at least two people. It said the incident took place Thursday near Gujranwala, a city in the eastern Punjab province. TV networks showed footage of soldiers …