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(AP) – Russia’s non-governmental organizations on Thursday demanded President Vladimir Putin prove they received nearly $1 billion from foreign sponsors, a claim he has used to justify sweeping raids on hundreds of groups. The crackdown has drawn strong criticism from

(AFP) – The number of people in Britain donating their organs after death has surged 50 percent in the past five years, says the NHS Blood and Transplant service (NHSBT). Each person who donates organs provides an overall average 56

(AP) – With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that’s feeding the rise of a new kind of money — a virtual currency whose oscillations have

(AFP) – Libya has granted an interest-free loan of $2 billion to cash-strapped Egypt to help it battle its economic crisis, local media reported on Thursday, citing an Egyptian finance ministry official. The loan is to be repaid within five

(AP) – Invitations to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral are going out to more than 2,000 celebrities, dignitaries, colleagues and friends of the late British leader — from former U.S. presidents to composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Invitations are being printed Thursday and

Wilfred de Bruijn’s face is bloated, seeped in blood, his bruised right eye shut tight, his tooth broken — the victim of a brutal attack in Paris while he was “walking arm in arm” with his boyfriend. His is one

A US citizen has married her Mexican fiance on a raft on the river border between their two countries, a unique ceremony designed to meet US immigration requirements. Stephanie Guerra, 26, and Ruben Alfonso Fierro, 27, defied the swirling currents

(AFP) – Mired in a scandal over an ex-minister’s secret Swiss bank account, French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday vowed to “eradicate” tax havens, increase checks on officials’ finances and crack down on tax cheats. Laying out a series of

(AFP) – Paris’s Louvre museum was on Wednesday closed due to a walkout by some staff in protest at a growing number of increasingly aggressive pickpockets targeting both workers and tourists, a union said. Management said it had already lodged

(AFP) – A New York federal judge has set the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law for January after defense lawyers said US budget cuts would make it hard to prepare by an earlier date. Judge Lewis Kaplan issued

(AP) – A judge in Tuscany fined Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA 1 million euros ($1.3 million) Wednesday for the 2012 shipwreck of the Concordia cruise ship that killed 32 people. Costa had asked for a plea bargain deal

(AP) – The leader of a militant group fighting on the side of Syria’s rebels has for the first time pledged allegiance to al-Qaida and the terror network’s No. 1, Ayman al-Zawahri. In an audio message Wednesday, Abu Mohammad al-Golani