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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Talks in Kabul Tuesday between representatives of four countries trying to end Afghanistan’s war with the Taliban are likely to set a date for a face-to-face meeting between the two sides, an Afghan official said. Representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are meeting …

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Tensions after Uganda’s elections, criticized by international observers as being undemocratic, ratcheted up on Monday when police arrested President Yoweri Museveni’s main challenger. Kizza Besigye was arrested as he tried to leave his home where he had been confined under house arrest. Associated Press journalists saw …

BERLIN (AP) – Alaa Ammar fled Syria to escape not just civil war but also the threat of persecution as a gay man. Yet when he arrived in The Netherlands last spring, he did not find the safe haven he craved. He and four other gay travelers had to face …

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – This is what the Zika outbreak looks like in Venezuela, a country whose medical system has teetered for months on the brink of collapse: There’s a lack of bug spray to prevent mosquito bites, scant contraceptives to avert pregnancies, little medicine to treat Zika-linked maladies. There …

ROME (AP) – Italy’s prime minister says he’s rooting for Hillary Clinton to be elected president of the United States. Matteo Renzi said Monday that as a citizen and leader of Italy’s Democratic party, “in all respect for the great American democracy, I’m rooting for Hillary Clinton.” However, he said …

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Two Serbian embassy staffers held hostage since November are believed to have been killed in Friday’s U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State camp in western Libya, Serbia’s foreign minister said Saturday. Minister Ivica Dacic identified the two as Sladjana Stankovic, a communications officer, and Jovica Stepic, …

MILAN (AP) – Umberto Eco started working a novel that set the world’s imagination on fire “prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk.” The Italian author/academic who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling historical novel “The Name of the Rose” died at home …

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Uganda’s election commission has declared long-time leader Yoweri Museveni the winner of presidential elections, with more than 60 percent of the votes. Badru Kiggundu, the head of the election commission, said Museveni’s nearest rival, opposition leader Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change, got 35 …

BRUSSELS (AP) – Britain is thinking of leaving. Greece feels isolated. Austria and Denmark are pushing controversial measures for coping with asylum-seekers despite what their neighbors think. Tensions between European Union leaders at this week’s summit in Brussels have highlighted a gnawing lack of confidence that the bloc of 28 …

Demonstrators on Saturday threw rocks through windows at the offices of Alfa Bank and Sberbank and damaged furniture and equipment inside. Protesters also vandalized the offices of the holding company of Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov. Tens of thousands of people in the Ukrainian capital came to various observances of …