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MOSCOW – Russia’s space agency has reported a glitch at the International Space Station that caused its position in orbit to change. Roscosmos said the engines of a Soyuz spacecraft that is docked at the station unexpectedly started on Tuesday during testing of the radio system that controls the docking …

BEIJING – Police are investigating the apparent suicides of four young siblings aged five to 13 who’d been abandoned by their parents in one of China’s poorest regions. State media report the four were found Wednesday night at home on the outskirts of the city of Bijie after ingesting liquid …

GUECKEDOU, Guinea – West Africa’s fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is claiming many thousands more lives than the dreaded virus. In Gueckedou, near the village where Ebola first started killing people in Guinea’s tropical southern forests a year ago, …

LONDON – Amnesty International is urging world leaders to radically overhaul refugee policies and create a comprehensive global strategy to deal with the crisis. The human rights watchdog issued a report Monday suggesting that world leaders have abandoned millions of refugees to “an unbearable existence” and left thousands more to …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s trade minister says Congress has only a few weeks left to pass key trade legislation that would clear the way for clinching an Asia-Pacific trade accord. The U.S. House of Representatives last week rejected legislation crucial to U.S. involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which intends to …

LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s papers have been donated to the nation in place of 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) in inheritance tax. The documents include a previously unpublished 17,000-word memoir of the Falklands War written in 1983, a year after the conflict. Arts Council England said …

The United States Embassy in Jamaica is suspending all visa operations and nonessential services for Americans as violence continues to escalate in the island nation’s capital, a State Department spokesman told FoxNews.com on Monday. A travel alert remains in effect for the area. The State Department issued the alert on …

LONDON – The recovery across the 19-country eurozone economy appears to be firming despite fears over a Greek debt default and exit from the euro. Financial information company Markit says its purchasing managers index for the eurozone — a broad gauge of business sentiment — rose to a 49-month high …

BEIJING – Disgruntled Chinese military veterans converged on Beijing to protest for what they say is the government’s failure to make good on promised pensions, medical insurance and other benefits. A website maintained by a veterans group said about 1,000 joined in a sit-in protest Tuesday at the petitions office …

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s new president is immediately dissolving the board of the state oil company from which billions of dollars is missing. A statement Friday announced the move for the government agency in charge of nearly all aspects of the country’s 200 million barrel-a-day oil industry that is the …