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BEIRUT – Activists say insurgents have captured strategic hills and a power station in northwestern Syria, bringing them closer to strongholds of President Bashar Assad. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Aleppo Media Center said militants were advancing Tuesday in the Sahl al-Ghab region north of the …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government has declared a first-ever “gender alert” for a central state due to a high incidence of killings and disappearances of women. The alert for the State of Mexico, outside the capital, was decreed by the Interior Department. It cites “systematic violence against women” and “an …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the dramatic collapse of two cranes onto a row of houses in a central Dutch city that briefly buried one man under rubble. The probe was announced Tuesday, a day after two towering cranes parked on a floating pontoon …