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DAVOS, Switzerland – A top official at the European Central Bank says getting the euro down was not a prime consideration of the bank’s recently announced 1.1 trillion-euro ($1.2 trillion) stimulus. Benoit Coeure, an executive board member at the ECB, told a panel at the World Economic Forum in the …

PARIS – An 8-year-old boy from the south of France who claimed to support the men who attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was detained and questioned by police for defending terrorism. Fabienne Lewandowski, deputy director for public security in the Alpes-Maritimes region, said Thursday that the boy declared “I …

MADRID – Spain says 400 African migrants tried to storm border fences separating its North African enclave Melilla from Morocco and has warned of a buildup in numbers across the frontier. The Interior Ministry said the migrants charged past Moroccan border forces Sunday by throwing rocks, but were repelled by …