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The leaders of five European Union members helping the transit of Ukrainian farm produce to third-world countries on Friday called for EU action over a glut that resulted from the goods not leaving for their destinations, bringing down prices in their own markets and angering farmers. Poland, Romania and other …

Six members of the 16-man crew on a Liberia-flagged tanker are being held hostage by pirates who boarded the ship in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea last week, the Danish shipper that owns the vessel and the French Navy said Friday. Pirates boarded the Monjasa Reformer southwest of Port Pointe-Noire, …

Police successfully deactivated a vest-like explosive device Thursday that an unknown number of people allegedly had taped to the chest of a security guard at a jewelry store in Ecuador’s main port city. The guard was uninjured. Authorities would question him to try to locate any suspects, said Francesco Tabacchi, …

A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum on Friday. “Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin” shows for the first time the long-term loan from the artist’s foundation. At the center of the exhibition is Richter’s 2014 …

Pirates in the Gulf of Guinea attacked a Danish-owned ship and took some of the 16-member crew hostage after abandoning the vessel on a small island off of West Africa, reports said Friday. Pirates boarded the Monjasa Reformer just off the Republic of the Congo Saturday before the French navy …

Police made the largest-ever cocaine seizure in Norway when they discovered 1,760 pounds of the drug in boxes of fruit in Oslo, officials said. Norwegian news agency NTB said late Thursday that the drugs were found this week following a tipoff from German police who seized 2,645 pounds in Potsdam …

North Korea is seeking to make a deal with Russia exchanging its glut of weaponry for much-needed food supplies, according to U.S. security officials. National Security Council (NSC) coordinator John Kirby made the assertion Thursday during a press conference. “We remain concerned that North Korea will provide further support to Russia’s …

Fourteen people, including students, have died after a university bus collided with a passenger vehicle in Kenya, west of the capital, on Thursday. Police say 12 people died on the spot and two others succumbed on the way to the hospital. The bus had 30 people on board and the …

MANCHESTER, England – The United Kingdom’s most notorious and violent prisoner, Charles Bronson, has lost his latest attempt for freedom. A parole board panel rejected the 70-year-old’s claim that after nearly half a century in jail he is safe to be released. Bronson was first jailed for armed robbery in …

A Canadian judge has acquitted a now-retired 93-year-old priest of assault after a student at one of Canada’s notorious residential schools accused him of forcing himself on her more than 50 years ago. Victoria McIntosh testified she was assaulted by Arthur Masse in a bathroom of the Fort Alexander Residential …