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Ethiopia’s prime minister said Tuesday his administration is attempting talks with an outlawed rebel group operating mainly in the restive Oromia region. Abiy Ahmed’s comments to lawmakers on outreach to the Oromo Liberation Army came amid efforts to replicate a peace process conducted for the conflict based in the northern …

French prosecutors said the offices of five Paris banks were raided Tuesday as part of widening tax fraud investigation spanning four continents.  The raid targeted some of France’s biggest banks, including Société Générale and BNP Paribas and the Paris offices of HSBC Holdings, Natixis and BNP’s Exane unit, The New …

More than 13,000 officers were deployed across France Tuesday as protests against pension reforms intensify in a test for President Emmanuel Macron.  French police are ramping up security after the government warned that radical demonstrators intended “to destroy, to injure and to kill,” The Associated Press reported.  Concerns that violence …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday pushed back at President Biden over his criticism of Israel’s proposed judicial overhaul that has ignited waves of protests.  Netanyahu said he has known Biden for more than 40 years and expressed appreciation for the president’s “longstanding commitment to Israel.” “The alliance between …

Pakistan announced Tuesday it will not participate in this week’s U.S.-led Summit for Democracy, a move seen in part as an effort by the impoverished Islamic nation to assuage longtime ally China, which was not invited. The Biden administration has invited 120 global leaders to the summit being held in …

At least 14 people from the African nation of Cameroon were rescued from waters in the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday after their boat capsized, but three people were dead and 13 others missing, authorities in St. Kitts said. The group had departed Antigua early Tuesday aboard a boat carrying 32 …

Pirates have boarded a Liberian-flagged oil tanker with 16 crew members in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea, the Danish vessel owner said Tuesday. The attack took place southwest of Port Pointe-Noire, Congo. The Monjasa Reformer “experienced an emergency situation” late Saturday, Monjasa, the Denmark-based company that owns the ship, said …

France’s highest court ruled Tuesday against extraditing 10 former far-left militants who were convicted of attacks in Italy carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. The two women and eight men fled Italy after their convictions and before they could be sent to prison. Now ranging in age from 62 …

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Tuesday said his country’s intelligence agency Mossad helped Greece prevent a terrorist attack planned against at least one Jewish site in Athens. Greek authorities said earlier that two men described as being of Pakistani origin, who were not named, had been arrested for allegedly …

German police said Saturday that they have arrested a 61-year-old man after three people were wounded in a hand grenade and knife attack in Berlin. Police said the attacker detonated the grenade in the entrance of an apartment building in the Reinickendorf neighborhood of the German capital on Friday night, …