BERLIN / AP Three men and a woman were sentenced to prison terms between three and five years on Wednesday for forming a far-right terrorist group in Germany with a plan to bomb refugee homes. The Munich state court ruled that the four founded the so-called Oldschool Society in August 2014. The group grew to have about 30 members ...

  MOGADISHU / AP Britain’s foreign secretary made a surprise visit to Somalia on Wednesday for talks with the country’s new president as a worsening drought threatens millions of people in the Horn of Africa nation. “It is all so, such a shame that you are facing the problems that you are facing, particularly of course the drought and the ...

  MOSCOW / AP Ukraine on Wednesday announced a transport blockade of rebel-held areas that is likely to cause serious economic disruption and could threaten a precarious cease-fire in the east of the country. “It will be in place until the occupiers return stolen Ukrainian industry to Ukrainian jurisdiction,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the country’s national security council in ...