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MADRID – Spanish police say they seized more than 3 tons of cocaine and broke up a major international drug trafficking gang whose leader lived in luxury in Madrid, posing as a soccer talent scout. The National Police said the leader, who was not identified, employed a network of Serbian …

CAIRO – The latest on the aftermath of a coordinated militant assault on Egyptian security forces in the restive northern Sinai that killed dozens of troops and set off the bloodiest fighting in the peninsula in decades (all times local). Noon Egyptian security officials say gunmen shot and killed a …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. children’s agency says children are suffering as a result of instability and election-related violence in Burundi including three killed in the last five days and dozens forced to flee from school. UNICEF spokesman Christophe Boulierac said one child died as a result of a grenade …