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PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo police say they have increased security in the town of Mitrovica after five hooded assailants crossed from the ethnic Albanian southern part of town into the Serb northern part to a stab a Serb teenager. It was the first serious ethnically motivated incident in years. Deputy …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Tuesday on a draft resolution that would impose an arms embargo on leaders of Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels and their key supporters, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son. The resolution is aimed at ending the Houthis military campaign against …

PARIS – A Paris court has convicted four members of a short-lived group of charges related to providing logistical support to Chechen jihadis in Syria. The youngest member of the group, Khamzat Ilyasov, 20, was sentenced to five years in prison. It was the harshest sentence in Thursday’s trial as …