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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 …

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 The documents include a previously unpublished 17,000-word memoir of the Falklands War written in 1983, a year after the conflict.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 …

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 …

N’DJAMENA, Chad – Residents say two blasts went off in the capital of Chad, killing at least 11 people, including five police. Souleymane Brahim said Monday the first explosion hit N’Djamena early in the morning, followed by a second one. He said gunfire was heard after the explosions. Several residents …

MOSCOW – Russia’s highest court has given the green light to holding next year’s parliamentary vote several months earlier. Lawmakers in the Kremlin-controlled parliament in June gave tentative approval to a bill that would move up next year’s vote by three months, a tactic that has been decried as an …