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Two U.S Navy sailors were reported missing while conducting operations Thursday off the coast of Somalia, the U.S. Central Command said. Search and rescue operations are currently ongoing, the statement said. Officials said that the two sailors were reported missing on Thursday evening. The brief statement gave no additional information …

TORONTO – A shooting rampage by a lone gunman at Parliament last October proved to be a “grim reminder that Canada is ill-prepared” to stop terrorist attacks in the capital, a new police report released Wednesday has found. The Ontario Provincial Police report said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police provided …

SKOPJE, Macedonia – Macedonia’s main opposition leader has called for a caretaker government to lead the country until early elections next year, following an agreement to hold a ballot to resolve one of the country’s worst political crises since its independence in 1991. Social-Democrat head Zoran Zaev said Monday he …

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government says it regrets Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to sign into law an $800 million border security package that will mean more state troopers, cameras and a spy plane to patrol the U.S. state’s 1,200-mile border with Mexico. One of the provisions will toughen …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Several hundred war veterans in Bosnia have protested the arrest in Switzerland of the wartime commander of the town of Srebrenica, where Serbs massacred thousands of Bosnian Muslims in 1995. Swiss authorities arrested Naser Oric Wednesday on a request from Serbia, which claims he killed Serb civilians …

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ transport minister says tenders will be issued this week for management of the east Mediterranean island nation’s largest port of Limassol. Marios Demetriades told a news conference Monday that companies may bid to manage the port as a container hub, a cruise liner port of call …

Even as the United States tries to ratchet up sanctions against North Korea for its March 26 sinking of a South Korean warship, the United Nations is preparing to spend more than $170 million on new programs in the xenophobic communist state. More surprisingly, it is doing so with the …

LONDON – A British teen has been arrested as part of a joint investigation with the FBI into hoax bomb threats against U.S. facilities. Police said Friday the bogus threats were made against schools, media companies, airports and airlines. The police and FBI say the 16-year-old boy committed offenses using …

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan has marked its leader’s 58th birthday by opening a park named after him, a move reflecting his blossoming personality cult. The park called Arkadag (Protector), the nickname of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has a massive marble arch at its entrance adorned with a large portrait of him. …

BEIJING – Two surveys show China’s manufacturing was weak in June and employers cut more jobs in a new sign of weakness in the world’s second-largest economy. HSBC Corp. said Wednesday its purchasing managers’ index stood at 49.4, largely unchanged from May’s 49.2 on a 100-point scale on which numbers …