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BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian authorities have charged Russian oil producer Lukoil with complicity in money laundering worth 1.77 billion euros ($1.95 billion). Prosecutors at the Court of Appeal in Ploiesti, where Lukoil’s refinery is based, on Monday charged Romanian and Russian company managers for allegedly misusing the company’s credit and …

BERLIN – The U.N.’s top human rights official has expressed alarm at the death sentence imposed on an alternative health practitioner in Iran. The U.N. human rights office says Mohammad Ali Taheri was sentenced to death Saturday after being found guilty of “corruption on Earth.” Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the U.N. …

MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahrain’s government has suspended the publication of the independent newspaper Al-Wasat. The official Bahrain News Agency said in a brief statement issued Thursday night that the suspension is “due to its violation of the law and repeated dissemination of information that affects national unity and the Kingdom’s …