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BAGHDAD – Security officials say a roadside bomb targeting a border guard convoy has killed five officers. The officials say Saturday’s blast hit the convoy, headed to the border with Jordan in western Iraq, near the border post of Trebil. Officials also say a pair of roadside bombs killed five …

UNITED NATIONS – The global parliamentary organization says the speaker of the Russian Parliament’s upper house will address its world conference Monday afternoon by video — and not in person because the U.S. barred her from attending. Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko is under U.S. sanctions in connection with …

Seventy years ago, on Sept. 2, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of Allied powers in the Pacific, stood on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and formally accepted the surrender of Imperial Japan. It marked the end of World War II, history’s bloodiest war, …