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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 …