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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 …