IQALUIT, Nunavut – A defrocked Artcic priest has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for dozens of sex crimes against Inuit children. Eric Dejaeger’s (deh-YAY’-guhrz) crimes took place 35 years ago in the remote Canadian community of Igloolik when he was there as an Oblate missionary. He was originally …

MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin says Russian doesn’t want to fight anyone but is warning against what he sees as foreign attempts to impede the country’s development. The Russian president’s remarks on Saturday to a trade union congress in the resort city of Sochi came as officials from Russia, Ukraine, France …

UNITED NATIONS – A human rights group says Sudanese army troops raped at least 221 women and girls in a Darfur village in a series of organized, house-to-house attacks late last year. The Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday calls the mass rape “a new low in the catalog of …

Danish media say several shots have been fired at a cafe in Copenhagen where a meeting about freedom of speech was being held, organized by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who has faced numerous threats for caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad in 2007. The TV2 channel said Saturday there were some 30 …

BERLIN – Swiss prosecutors say they’ve opened a money-laundering investigation against a local subsidiary of HSBC following a report that the bank turned a blind eye to illegal activities of arms dealers and traders in blood diamond traders while helping rich people evade taxes. Geneva prosecutors said the premises of …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan central bank official says that around 76 million afghanis (more than $ 1 million) have been stolen by the staff members of one of the bank’s branches. Fazel Ahmad Azimi, the central bank director for Afghanistan’s southern region, said on Saturday that at least three …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia on Wednesday imposed financial sanctions on the Egypt-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement that the sanctions accorded with a United Nations Security Council resolution on preventing and suppressing terrorist acts. Breaching the sanctions carries a potential maximum 10 …

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NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ parliament has legislated to criminalize the denial of the massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago. Parliamentary speaker Yiannakis Omirou says that through a unanimous vote, lawmakers can make denial of any historically proven massacre a crime. Omirou said after …

ISTANBUL – The Turkish Coast Guard says it has recovered the bodies of eight migrants who drowned after a wooden migrant boat sunk in the Aegean off the Turkish coast of Datca late Monday. The Coast Guard boats rescued nine other people. A boat and a helicopter were still searching …