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KINSHASA, Congo – A government spokesman says that a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Congo early Friday, causing the death of at least two children. Lambert Mende says the epicenter of the earthquake was located close to Lake Tanganyika near Bukavu, the capital of the South Kivu province. He says …

ANKARA, Turkey – Officials say Kurdish rebels have fired at a police vehicle in southern Turkey, killing a policeman and wounding another, in the latest attack against Turkish security forces. The governor’s office for Mardin province said militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, opened fire late Saturday at …

MOSCOW – Russia’s counterterrorism agency says its forces have killed four suspected militants, including the top leader of Islamic rebels in North Caucasus. The Anti-Terrorist Committee said Tuesday the suspects were killed in a raid in the province of Dagestan. It identified one of them as Magomed Suleimanov, the leader …

HELSINKI – Swedish officials say the main suspect in a knife attack that killed two people at an Ikea store in the central Sweden was due to be deported after his request for residency was rejected last month. The Migration Agency said the 35-year-old Eritrean-born man had met with agency …

BERLIN – The comet where a European spacecraft landed last year has made the closest approach to the sun of its 6 ½-year orbit. The European Space Agency said comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reached its closest point to the sun, known as perihelion, at 0203 GMT Thursday. That put it some 186 …

BENGHAZI, Libya – Witnesses and officials say Libya’s Islamic State affiliate has seized control of a neighborhood in the central city of Sirte, going door to door searching for members of a rival group it has been battling for days. Mohammed Hadia, a government committee member, said IS fighters are …

CAIRO – The Egyptian presidency says President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s mother has died and urges Egyptians to support public projects instead of paying for notices offering condolences on her passing. Monday’s statement didn’t say how old el-Sissi’s mother, Soad Ibrahim, was or give the cause of death. The 60-year-old el-Sissi has …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court say a lower panel of judges must reconsider its decision not to report Kenya to the court’s government body for failing to fully cooperate with prosecutors seeking evidence against the country’s president. Late last year the court’s chief prosecutor, …

JUBA, South Sudan – The father of a South Sudanese journalist says unknown gunmen killed his son on the outskirts of the capital, Juba, in an attack that came days after President Salva Kiir was reported to have threatened to kill reporters “working against the country.” Julius Kilong Ramoi said …

BEIJING – A Chinese state news agency says rescue workers are searching for eight people missing after a landslide that killed three others in the country’s mountainous southwest. The Xinhua News Agency said the disaster at about 7 p.m. on Saturday evening buried a road in Funing County in Yunnan …