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BAGHDAD – Security officials in Iraq say two bombings have torn through different neighborhoods in the country’s eastern Diyala province, killing at least 42 people. Officials say the deadlier of the two attacks happened near the provincial capital, Baquba, where a car bomb tore through a marketplace, killing 35 people …

CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt’s health minister says 17 more people have died due to an “unprecedented” heat wave, raising this week’s death toll to 76. Health Minister Adel el-Adawy said Thursday that the deaths are mostly among the elderly, and include eight patients of a psychiatric hospital. El-Adawy says 1,205 …

TORONTO – A Pan Am Games manager says in a lawsuit she was sexually harassed by David Peterson, the former Ontario premier and chairman of the competition’s organizing committee. Ximena Morris filed her claim in Ontario Superior Court on Thursday. The 34-year-old woman contends that when she complained to human …

TOKYO – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has launched an unmanned transport vehicle carrying water, parts and other supplies to the International Space Station. The vehicle was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan on Wednesday night following weather-related delays. Space enthusiasts traveled to the area to watch …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police say they have found another 24 bodies of suspected human trafficking victims in jungles bordering Thailand. Authorities in May said they discovered 139 suspected graves in abandoned jungle camps in northern Perlis state, a remote area bordering Thailand that trafficking syndicates used as a …

An Ohio zoo that has the last Sumatran rhino in the United States on Tuesday announced plans to send the endangered species to Southeast Asia on a mission to mate. Conservation experts at the Cincinnati Zoo say 8-year-old Harapan will soon be on his way to Indonesia, where nearly all …

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s opposition leader has warned armed ethnic minority groups not to rush into signing a nationwide ceasefire deal, a position that pits her against President Thein Sein, who has made reaching a deal before November’s general election his top priority. Talks between more than a dozen rebel …

CAIRO – Three journalists on trial in an Egyptian court on terrorism-related charges are awaiting its verdict, hopeful that they will be acquitted after lengthy proceedings criticized worldwide by press freedom advocates and human rights activists. On Friday, a day before the verdict, Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, who was Al-Jazeera’s …

PARIS – Some travelers trying to cross the English Channel are stranded because French workers are blockading the port of Calais. British ferry operator P&O Ferries warned passengers that the blockade began Sunday evening as a result of actions by workers at MyFerryLink, a ferry operator facing job cuts. It’s …

GENEVA – The U.N.’s human rights chief says United Nations staff have turned up a case of alleged sexual abuse of a girl by a French soldier in Central African Republic. The announcement by U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein follows other allegations of child sexual …