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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping area in Indonesia’s capital and waged gunbattles with police Thursday, leaving bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from high-rise buildings. Police said five attackers and two civilians were killed, while …

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) – Italian prosecutors say “decisive” DNA analysis of a condom and cigarette butt led them to arrest a Senegalese man in the death of an American woman who suffered two deadly fractures to her skull before being strangled in her Florence apartment. The naked body of Ashley …

CINAR, Turkey (AP) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkish artillery have attacked Islamic State group positions in Iraq and in Syria in retaliation to the suicide bombing in Istanbul which killed 10 tourists. Davutoglu said Thursday Turkish military targeted 500 extremist positions along the border with Syria and …

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s 92-year-old former President Shimon Peres suffered a “mild” heart attack Thursday but was in “excellent” condition following a heart procedure, his personal physician said. Peres was rushed to a hospital near Tel Aviv from his home on Thursday morning after he fell ill with chest pains …

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – A French court must decide whether a British man who went on trial Thursday is a smuggler or a hero after he tried to spirit a 4-year-old Afghan girl from a squalid migrant camp in the French city of Calais to family members in Britain. Just …

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday killed 15 people, mainly police who had gathered to escort health workers, who have been repeatedly targeted in recent years by Islamic militants, officials said. The bombing of the polio center on the …

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) – Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed Wednesday after unidentified gunmen attacked the Pakistani consulate in a volatile eastern province, an official said on Wednesday. Attaullah Khyogani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said another seven security forces personnel were injured in during …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week. The …

ISTANBUL (AP) -The latest on the investigation into the explosion in the historic center of Istanbul. All times local. 1:20 p.m. Germany’s interior minister says there are no indications so far that Germans were specifically targeted in the attack in Istanbul. Germany has taken a noncombat role in the international …

WASHINGTON (AP) – With Americans soon to begin choosing his successor, President Barack Obama is casting his seven divisive years as a time of positive change, implicitly asking voters to replace him with a Democrat who would continue his hard-won policies on health care, climate change and Iran. Addressing a …