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BAUCHI, Nigeria – Nigerian police say they’re investigating reports that dozens of people were killed in attacks by Boko Haram Islamic extremists in a remote region in the country’s northeast. Haruna Bukar, a civilian security agent in the area, told The Associated Press that more than 40 villagers were killed …

LONDON – Britain’s foreign secretary has said that Israel wants a “permanent standoff” with Iran and suggests it wouldn’t have welcomed any kind of nuclear deal. Responding to an opposition lawmaker who criticized the deal struck between Iran and the West aimed at keeping Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, …

WASHINGTON – A U.S. airstrike in Syria has killed a key figure in a dangerous al-Qaida offshoot, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Muhsin al-Fadhli was killed in a July 8 air attack while traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement. Davis did …