BRUSSELS / AP European Union lawmakers have voted to toughen the bloc’s gun laws and close loopholes exploited by attackers in France. The lawmakers passed the rules on Tuesday in a 491-178 vote, with 28 abstentions. It will force EU countries to beef up laws on certain arms that fire blanks so they can’t be easily converted to use ...

  NEW DELHI / AP Police say assailants have shot and hacked to death a Sufi spiritual leader and his adopted daughter in northern Bangladesh. Local police chief Hamidul Alam said on Tuesday the bodies of Farhad Hossain Chowdhury and his daughter, Rupali Begum, were recovered late Monday from a shrine Chowdhury ran in Dinajpur district. Alam said police are ...

  JERUSALEM / AP Israeli police have raided the east Jerusalem office of a prominent Palestinian cartographer, accusing him of working illegally on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. Khalil Tufagji told The Associated Press that police had entered his office and were confiscating computers and files before the line went dead. His daughter Roleen later said her father had been ...