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BEIRUT – Al-Qaida’s Syrian affiliate is confirming that its top field commander has been killed in an airstrike. A spokesman for the Nusra Front was quoted on a prominent militant website Friday as saying the group’s “military commander” Abu Hommam al-Shami was killed a day earlier when an airstrike targeted …

MADRID – A Barcelona judge has issued a landmark ruling that three sex workers should have been hired full-time by a brothel owner. The judge ordered the brothel owner to make payments to the government so the prostitutes will be eligible for Spanish national health care, disability insurance, government pensions …

LONDON – A report led by the Great Manchester Police has criticized its own officers for failing to recognize the scale of child sex abuse in a northern town and putting too much emphasis on the credibility of the victims. The report Friday looked into how officers handled the abuse …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Authorities say a 4.6-magnitude earthquake has shaken eastern Romania, and was felt in the capital. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The National Earth Physics Institute director Constantin Ionescu said the quake occurred Monday at 5:49 p.m. (1549 GMT) in the region of Vrancea, …

JERUSALEM – Israelis woke up Wednesday morning to find that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party came in first in parliamentary elections. It was a stunning turnaround after a tight race that had put his lengthy rule in jeopardy. Here is how things could play out now: ___ HOW …

TORONTO – Two men could spend the rest of their lives in prison after being found guilty of several terror-related charges for plotting to attack a passenger train traveling from New York to Toronto. Prosecutors had argued during the trial that the men were motivated by Islamic extremism and spent …

BEIRUT – Syrian rebels on Wednesday seized an ancient town near the Jordan border that is a key government stronghold, ousting Syrian soldiers and allied militiamen from the region after four days of intense battles, opposition activists and rebels said. There was no immediate comment from the government on the …

JERUSALEM – A Jerusalem district court has indicted a Palestinian from east Jerusalem on charges of traveling to Syria to join and fight with the Islamic State militant group. The Shin Bet security service says Khalil Khalil, born in 1990, had joined a gym at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem …

HAVANA – Cuba says it will offer WiFi service in a public park in the country’s far east but at a price that makes access prohibitive for most Cubans. U.S. officials have said they hope the detente declared with Cuba last month will help make Internet more available on the …

OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian soldiers opened fire on Islamic State group extremists in Iraq over the last week in what a general called an act of self-defense. Brig.-Gen. Michael Rouleau, commander of special operations command, said Monday the soldiers were visiting front-line positions with Iraqi forces when they came under …