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SEOUL, South Korea – After more than 40 hours of talks, North and South Korea pulled back from the brink Tuesday with an accord that allows both sides to save face and, for the moment, avert the bloodshed they’ve been threatening each other with for weeks. In a carefully crafted, …

MADRID – A Spanish woman is fuming after football club Barcelona made her pay 54 euros ($60) for a match ticket for her 10-month-old baby even though the seat wouldn’t be used. In a letter to El Periodico newspaper this week, Roso Castellsagues related how she and friends bought six …

MADRID – The mayor of a village in northwestern Spain denies his town council destroyed a heritage-protected Stone Age monument to replace it with a picnic table. A dispute erupted after an environmental protection group reported to the region’s Environment and Planning office the destruction of a historically important, 6,000-year-old …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors have detained a prosecutor and a senior tax official on suspicion they took bribes from a businessman to resolve a court case in his favor. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Alina Bica, the former chief prosecutor for the agency investigating organized crime and terrorism, received …

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it has reached agreement with Yemen’s government and a Saudi-led military coalition on increasing the flow of badly needed goods like food and fuel to Yemen. The impoverished Arab country relies on imports for about 90 percent of its supplies, but it has …

EL-ARISH, Egypt – An official from the Multinational Force and Observers’ peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula says their vehicles that were hit with explosive devices are similar to ones used by the Egyptian army, but were painted white. The official, who requested anonymity because he’s not authorized to …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s prime minister says his country will resettle a “significant” number of refugees from Syria this year, while the opposition called for an additional 10,000 refugee places to help the world cope with the latest humanitarian crisis. Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament on Monday that he …

SANTIAGO, Chile – President Michelle Bachelet says Chile will welcome “an important number” of Syrian refugees. When Bachelet spoke during a religious ceremony late Monday, she didn’t specify the country of origin of the refugees Chile would accept. But her foreign ministry confirmed Tuesday that Chile would receive Syrians fleeing …

ANKARA, Turkey – A Dutch journalist has confirmed she has been expelled from Turkey, becoming the third foreign journalist to be deported after reporting from the country’s mainly Kurdish southeast. Frederike Geerdink was detained last week in the town of Yuksekova with a group of “human shield” protesters attempting to …

GENEVA – The U.N.’s top human rights official is urging France and Bulgaria to stop forcible evictions of Roma from their camps. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad al-Hussein warned that authorities in France appear to be making such evictions “systematic national policy” since 2012, noting the eviction last …