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DNA tests have shown that 13-year-old Alfie Patten did not father a child born in February to a 15-year-old girl. The results, revealed in high court last month and made public Monday, showed the father is 15-year-old Tyler Barker, who lived near baby Maisie’s mother Chantelle Steadman in Eastbourne, southern …

BERLIN – The trial of a man accused of stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a German court — an attack that outraged Muslims — opens Monday in the same courthouse, but under much greater security. Some 200 police officers are to secure the Dresden state court, and …

MOSCOW – Russia’s president on Saturday defended recent local elections that drew fraud allegations, inspired an opposition walkout of parliament and strengthened the Kremlin’s grip on power Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with parliamentary opposition leaders that the election was “overall well-organized.” In broadcast comments he seemed to dismiss …