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  LONDON / AP An investigation has been launched after British police fatally shot a man during an operation in which five people were arrested. Details aren’t immediately clear because no one has yet been charged with a crime. Police said Tuesday that the arrests weren’t related to terrorism. West Yorkshire police said that the Independent Police Complaints Commission was ...

  YANGON / AP Newly revealed video of Myanmar police beating Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state has weakened months of government claims that its forces have not committed abuses in the tense and isolated region it has largely closed off to foreigners since a deadly insurgent attack in October. The footage has made it more difficult for the government ...

  BEIJING / AFP China confirmed that its aircraft carrier has for the first time conducted drills in the South China Sea with a formation of other warships and fighter jets, a move that could raise concerns among its neighbors. The Defense Ministry said several J-15 fighter jets took off and landed from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Liaoning ...

  MADRID / AFP Guards on the border of Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, say they have recently detained one Moroccan suspected of attempting to smuggle migrants concealed in a suitcase and another suspected of hiding migrants in a car. Custom agents found a 19-year-old migrant from Gabon hidden in a suitcase pushed on a trolley by a woman who ...

  BEIRUT / ap Syrian government forces pressed ahead with their offensive in the water-rich Barada Valley northwest of Damascus on Tuesday as 10 rebel groups said they were suspending talks about planned peace negotiations because of what they describe as ongoing government violations of a cease-fire deal. The cease-fire, brokered by Russia and Turkey, is meant to be followed ...

  BERLIN / AP German prosecutors are accusing a man already convicted of membership in a terrorist organization of participating in the killing of six captives by the IS group. Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday they obtained a new warrant against the 28-year-old German, identified only as Harry S. in line with privacy laws, on suspicion of murder and committing ...

JERUSALEM / AP Israel’s prime minister is denying wrongdoing a day after he was questioned by police for more than three hours over corruption allegations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that “there won’t be anything because there is nothing,” and decried “years of daily persecution against me and my family.” Police investigators grilled Netanyahu on Monday ...

  ROME / AP Italian police say they have quelled a violent protest by occupants of a migrant center near Venice that left fearful workers barricaded inside offices. Carabinieri paramilitary police in Chioggia, near the Cona migrant center, said the protest ended in the early hours of Tuesday. Italian state RAI radio said migrants were protesting the alleged delay in ...

  ISTANBUL / AP Turkish state media aired new footage on Tuesday of a man believed to be the IS gunman who killed 39 people at a nightclub, showing a grim selfie video of the suspect as he circles Istanbul’s most famous square. The camera never leaves the man’s unsmiling face as he walks through Taksim square, one of Istanbul’s prime ...

  JAKARTA / AP An Indonesian court ruled on Tuesday that witness testimony will be closed to the media in the blasphemy trial of the capital’s minority Christian governor. Jakarta Gov. Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama is charged with insulting Islam and desecrating the Quran by using one of its verses to boost his chances of winning re-election. Ahok, 50, is seeking ...