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PARIS – France’s Foreign Ministry says a French woman working for a humanitarian group in Central African Republic has been kidnapped. The ministry statement issued Monday night did not identify the 67-year-old woman or elaborate on the circumstances of Monday’s kidnapping in Bangui, the capital. The ministry called on the …

LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambia’s ruling party candidate led in partial returns from a presidential election in the southern African nation, election officials said Thursday. Edgar Lungu of the Patriotic Front party was ahead with 50 percent of the vote after 80 out of 150 constituencies were counted, according to results …

BERLIN – Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, some 58 percent of Germans say the past should be consigned to history, while three-quarters of Israelis reject the idea of putting the past behind them. Some 48 percent of Germans also say their opinion of today’s Israel is “poor” and …