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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 …