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CAIRO – The deaths of 22 soccer fans in Egypt cannot be seen simply as a sports tragedy. Like almost everything in the country since the 2011 uprising that toppled authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak, its struggles, hopes and pursuit for power are very much at the heart of what happened …

CHISINAU, Moldova – Moldova’s Parliament has failed to approve a pro-European minority government, plunging the country into a state of political uncertainty. Some 42 lawmakers voted for the two-party government in Thursday’s vote, nine votes short of the majority needed. The government hoped to but failed to secure votes from …

MONTREAL – More than 3,000 Teamsters members have gone on strike at Canadian Pacific Railway after contract talks failed to reach an agreement before the midnight deadline. The Teamsters Canada Rail conference union represents 3,300 locomotive engineers and other train workers. It was not clear early Sunday how rail service …

CHISINAU, Moldova – Moldova’s government is trying to stabilize the country’s currency, which plummeted 25 percent this week amid concerns over the financial and political system. The currency has been hit by worries that the banking system is in crisis and public finances are in decline. Also, the country has …

TOKYO – Honda Motor Co., the Japanese automaker at the center of an air-bag defect scandal, says its president Takanobu Ito will step aside. The decision follows massive recalls by Honda of vehicles equipped with air bags made by Japan’s Takata Corp. Takata airbags are used by many automakers but …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council has given unanimous backing to Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi as “the legitimate president of Yemen” and reaffirmed its strong commitment to the country’s unity. The council statement was issued Wednesday as Yemen plunged deeper into a crisis that threatens to split the nation. …

MEXICO CITY – Former Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard is splitting with the country’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD. Ebrard writes in a letter of resignation that he disagrees with party leadership’s increasing closeness to President Enrique Pena Nieto and the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party. He says he was …

BERLIN – German authorities say they suspect someone deliberately set fire to a building that was meant to house refugees in the eastern town of Troeglitz. German news agency dpa reported Saturday that the fire overnight destroyed attic rooms in what prosecutor Joerg Wilkmann described as “particularly serious arson.” Police …

BANGKOK – More than 100 people, including many foreign tourists, have been rescued from a tour boat that caught fire in the Andaman Sea off Thailand’s southwestern coast. Police Col. Sompong Thip-apakul said the accident occurred on the Ao Nang Princess 5 ferry traveling from Krabi to Phuket, two of …

LONDON – A British newspaper has published surveillance-camera images that appear to show thieves robbing a high-security safety deposit facility in London’s diamond district. The methodical heist has fascinated Britain — and left police on the defensive. The footage published Saturday by the Daily Mirror shows several men, their faces …