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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 …

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 …

MADRID – Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has revised Spain’s economic growth forecast upward for this year and next and said the improved circumstances allowed him bring forward a tax reduction plan. Rajoy says the economy will grow 3.3 this year and 3 percent in 2016, up from the previous 2.9 …

DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian state TV says a bomb has exploded inside a mosque in an opposition-held suburb of Damascus, killing a Sunni Muslim cleric. The TV says the bomb was placed under the pulpit, or minbar, at the Grand Mosque in the Tal area and went off shortly after …

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria’s military has freed 180 detainees held for months, including women carrying babies with toddlers clinging to their skirts, declaring they are no longer suspected of being part of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist insurgency. Army chief Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minima says they “have been investigated and …

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan’s oil and gas ministry has accused Russian state gas company Gazprom of failing to pay for deliveries in a sign of friction between the two major gas producers. The Central Asian nation’s ministry said in a statement that Gazprom “has failed to pay under its contracts …