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BERLIN – Prosecutors in Germany have charged a doctor with negligent bodily harm for declaring a 92-year-old woman dead, only for her to awaken again in a refrigerated room at a funeral home. Essen prosecutor Birgit Juergens said Tuesday the 53-year-old doctor, whose name wasn’t released in line with privacy …

TORONTO – A Canadian police official says that a British Airways flight from Las Vegas to London has been diverted to Montreal after a bomb threat. The official confirmed the threat aboard the Wednesday flight to the Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not …

LONDON – Britain’s Treasury chief has authorized the sale of its stake in taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland — the first step in recovering money from Britain’s costliest-ever bank rescue. The Treasury department said in a statement Monday that UK Financial Investments, which manages the government’s stakes in banks bailed …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official news agency is reporting that the Islamic Republic’s military chief has backed a landmark nuclear deal with world powers despite having concerns over it. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, a close ally of Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke of 16 advantages of the deal, a …

SHANGHAI – Foreign companies are suspending operations around the Tianjin port as officials scramble to contain the toxic fallout of last week’s deadly chemical explosions. Toyota says it has suspended three production lines, which account for over half its China capacity, through Wednesday. Panasonic kept its Tianjin office closed Monday …

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe has charged a man on whose land the well-known Cecil the lion was shot by American dentist Walter James Palmer in July. Charges have not been filed against Palmer, according to prosecutors, while in Minnesota the dentist has reopened his practice. Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Honest …

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Police in Azerbaijan have detained 21 people after they held a protest to demand justice for a man who died in police custody in the western town of Mingachevir. The Interior Ministry said the man, 27-year-old Bahruz Hajiyev, “unexpectedly jumped out of a third-floor window during questioning” …

BEIJING – The more than 300 grade schools in the Chinese neighborhood shaken by this month’s deadly blasts will start the fall semester on time. The district government of Binhai in the port city of Tianjin said Sunday that all the schools in the district had completed registration work for …

PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights has upheld the case of three Tunisians expelled from Italy in 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring uprising, ruling that the migrants had been subjected to degrading and inhuman treatment during four days in a detention center, suffered a collective …

BANGUI, Central African Republic – The U.N. human rights chief says there needs to be greater accountability for international peacekeepers following of yet another sexual abuse allegation in Central African Republic. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed the scandal Friday following his visit to …