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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) – The overnight seizure of a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso’s capital by al-Qaida-linked extremists ended Saturday when Burkina Faso and French security forces killed four jihadist attackers and freed more than 126 people, the West African nation’s president said. At least 23 other people from …

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan elected Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president Saturday, handing her pro-independence party its first majority in the national legislature and rejecting the China-friendly party that has led the self-governing island for eight years. Voters concerned that Taiwan’s economy is under threat from China and …

ROME (AP) – A lawyer for a Senegalese man suspected of killing American woman in Florence says an Italian judge is expected to uphold his client’s jailing. The judge questioned Cheik Tidiane Diaw at a closed-door hearing Saturday in Florence to determine if the suspect should stay in custody as …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – In the course of six years without a major terrorist attack, Indonesia had grown more and more confident that it had stayed on top of any threat from Islamic militants. This week, that conviction was punctured by a bold, daylight attack in the heart of Jakarta’s …

BEIRUT (AP) – The U.N. children’s agency said Friday that it witnessed the death of a teenager who died of starvation “in front of our eyes,” as well as several cases of severe malnutrition among children trapped in a besieged Syrian town near Damascus. Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s representative in Syria, …

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Kenya’s president said on Friday that Kenyan troops were killed when al-Shabab Islamic fighters attacked an African Union base in Somalia. He gave no casualty figure but an al-Shabab spokesman said at least 63 soldiers died. President Uhuru Kenyatta described the loss as heartbreaking. “Regrettably, some …

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Samples taken from the body of a woman who died this week in Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, officials said Friday, the day after the Ebola epidemic was declared over. The World Health Organization, which on Thursday declared an end to the deadliest Ebola …

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan appears all but certain to elect a female president on Saturday, underscoring the vast political gains women have made over the island’s decades-long transition from authoritarianism to thriving democracy. While the Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen would hardly be the first Asian woman elected head …

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 …