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To nobody’s surprise, Marvin Harrison Jr. will be in this year’s NFL Draft. The son of a Hall of Famer, the Ohio State Buckeyes star announced on Thursday that he will officially forgo his senior season and go pro. “I want to give thanks to everyone at The Ohio State …

The son of Somalia’s president testified at an Istanbul court on Friday about the death of a motorcycle courier in the city, Turkish media reported. An arrest warrant had been issued for Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud after a diplomatic car he was driving allegedly hit Yunus Emre Gocer, 38, on …

CAIRO – Egypt’s foreign minister says his country is hosting the second meeting of Syrian opposition this year in a bid to champion a political process amid an international and regional focus on a military solution to the conflict now in its fifth year. Sameh Shoukry spoke Monday at the …

LONDON – A Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who said there was “trouble with girls” working in laboratories has resigned from his honorary post at University College London. Tim Hunt apologized for his remarks at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea but had stood by his assertion that …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s prime minster says the government will consider “all options,” including a physical barrier on the southern border with Serbia, to stem the increased flow of migrants. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday on state radio that “migration is dangerous” and that the government will hear the …

BERLIN – The United Nations’ human rights chief is urging European nations to accept more refugees and to do more to fight prejudice and discrimination against migrants once they arrive. Zeid Raad al-Hussein told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that he was “shocked and shamed by …

UNITED NATIONS – A high-level panel urged a major overhaul of U.N. peacekeeping operations Tuesday that would make political solutions the paramount goal, speed up deployment of peacekeepers, and require the naming and shaming of countries whose troops commit acts of sexual abuse. The panel delivered its report to U.N. …

JUBA, South Sudan – At least 129 children were killed, with boys castrated and girls raped, during a government offensive against rebels last month in South Sudan, according to the U.N. children’s agency. South Sudanese military spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, on Thursday questioned the credibility of the report, saying it …

Greece seems to have edged back from the financial abyss…again. On the eve of a large tranche of debt coming due Wednesday, the European Union has handed over the equivalent of 18 million dollars in bail-out money. Plus IMF help should tide over the troubled Greek government for now. “The …

BAMAKO, Mali – Mali’s main coalition of Tuareg separatist rebels has signed a peace agreement with the government more than a month after other armed groups did so. The deal took place Saturday evening in Mali’s capital Bamako after a delay of several hours to give participants time to arrive. …