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YANGON, Myanmar – Authorities in Myanmar have filed criminal charges against 69 student activists and their supporters who were arrested two weeks ago when police cracked down on peaceful protests against a new education law. Protesters remained defiant as they sang songs and waved at family and supporters when they …

BEIRUT – Activists say Syrian government forces have fired surface-to-surface missiles and conducted airstrikes on the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib, killing more than a dozen people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees said the Monday night strikes killed at least 14 people. The …

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea plans to deport a Korean-American woman accused of praising rival North Korea in a recent lecture, officials said Friday, in the latest in a series of cases that critics say infringe on freedom of speech. The Korea Immigration Service decided to deport Shin Eun-mi, …

CAIRO – One of Egypt’s top Islamic authorities has warned the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo against publishing a new cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on the cover of its first issue since Islamic extremists killed 12 people at its offices. Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta, which is in charge of issuing …

ISTANBUL – A local news agency says Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to five years in prison for a former television presenter who was detained last month for posting a tweet suggesting a cover-up in a government corruption scandal. Private Dogan news agency reported Friday that Sedef Kabas was charged …

The International Criminal Court says that a Ugandan rebel leader turned over to authorities in a remote jungle in Africa is now headed to The Hague. In a statement released late Tuesday, ICC authorities said Dominic Ongwen would be held in a detention center in the Netherlands until his trial …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s attorney general says that confessions and forensic evidence show that all 43 students who disappeared at the hands of local police in September were killed and then incinerated at a garbage dump in the southern state of Guerrero — a conclusion that relatives of the victims …

BERLIN – Otto Carius, a World War II German panzer ace credited with destroying more than 150 enemy tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front, has died at 92. Carius died at home in western Germany Jan. 24 after a short illness, according to a statement Friday on the website of …

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations’ new human rights chief is making an official visit to the United States, the first such visit by the high commissioner since 2007. The U.N. says Zeid Raad al-Hussein, who is based in Geneva, is in Washington this week to meet with National Security …

BERLIN – Germany’s industrial production rose slightly in December in another sign that the key sector is gaining steam. The Federal Statistical Office said Friday that December production was up by 0.1 percent over November, despite a drop in construction and capital goods. That followed a 0.1 percent rise in …