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MADRID – Police say they have arrested eight Spaniards suspected of fighting on the pro-Russian side in eastern Ukraine. A police statement said the eight were arrested Friday morning in six different parts of Spain. The statement said the eight were accused of several offenses but gave no details. The …

LONDON – A local politician in Britain says his son is one of nine Britons arrested in Turkey while allegedly trying to get to Syria. Shakil Ahmed, a Labour Party councilor in Rochdale, northwest England, said Thursday he had believed his university student son was in Birmingham, England. Ahmed said …

CAIRO – Moody’s Investor Service has upgraded Egypt’s credit rating, saying macroeconomic performance has improved and external vulnerabilities have been reduced. In a statement, it ranked Egypt at B3 on its scale — speculative and subject to high credit risk — with a stable outlook, an improvement from its previous …