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MOGADISHU, Somalia – Three homicide car bombs exploded outside Somalia’s government base of Baidoa, killing at least six people, including the drivers, and wounding four civilians, officials said Thursday. One of the bombers was a veiled woman. The bombing took place at a government checkpoint, exploding as police tried to …

NEW YORK – As Lea Ingel waited at John F. Kennedy International Airport, she was not sure what she would say when she was reunited with the Catholic woman whose family sheltered her on its Lithuania farm during the Holocaust. The women had not seen each other in 61 years, …

LONDON – As many as 60 Russian spies are operating in Britain, virtually unchallenged by a domestic intelligence service preoccupied by the threat from Islamic extremism, a lawmaker told a debate Wednesday on relations between Moscow and London. Chris Bryant, a legislator with Tony Blair’s governing Labour party who convened …