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BERLIN – Credit Suisse says its chief executive Brady W. Dougan is to leave the bank after eight years. The American will be replaced in June by Tidjane Thiam, the head of British insurer Prudential. The Swiss bank’s chairman, Urs Rohner, said in a statement Tuesday that Dougan had kept …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Authorities in Bosnia say a van transporting radioactive material has been involved in a crash, but there is no danger of radiation leakage as the substance remained sealed in its container. The van overturned on a motorway near the northeastern town of Maglaj on Friday after colliding …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – European Union foreign ministers have unblocked Bosnia’s stalled membership bid by agreeing to implement a pre-accession agreement with the troubled Balkan nation seven years after it had been reached. Monday’s decision comes less than a month after Bosnia’s parliament adopted an EU-required economic and social reform plan …

KINSHASA, Congo – Congo will expel the African activists arrested over the weekend following a U.S.-sponsored event to encourage greater participation in politics. The activists — from Senegal and Burkina Faso — are members of movements that have led large-scale protests in their countries in recent years against presidents attempting …

TRIPOLI, Libya – Security officials from both sides of the Libyan conflict say army troops are battling militias west of the capital, Tripoli. Meanwhile, the Libyan army says it’s carrying out airstrikes on multiple targets. Libyan army spokesman Ahmed al-Mesmari says airstrikes Saturday targeted Matiga base — Tripoli’s only functioning …

CAIRO – Egypt’s forensics authority on Tuesday dismissed a doctor who said last weekend that a female protester killed by police in January died because she did not have enough body fat to protect against shotgun pellets. Authority head Mahmoud Ahmed Ali also said in his statement that all doctors …

WARSAW, Poland – Tadeusz Konwicki, a prominent Polish writer and filmmaker whose works during the communist era lampooned the authoritarian Soviet-imposed system, has died. He was 88. Konwicki is best known for his novels “A Minor Apocalypse,” a satire of life in a totalitarian state, and “The Polish Complex,” a …

BEIJING – China’s exports rebounded in December but imports shrank in a sign of weak domestic demand. Full-year trade in 2014 grew 3.4 percent, well below the official 10 percent target. Customs data on Tuesday showed exports rose 9.7 percent, recovering from November’s unexpectedly low 4.7 percent. Imports declined by …

TIRANA, Albania – The grandson of the communist dictator who ruled Albania with an iron fist for four decades has been arrested on suspicion of belonging to an international criminal ring that smuggled cocaine from Colombia to western Europe. Ermal Hoxha, 40, faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence if convicted …

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia cut its economic growth forecast for this year and announced austerity measures after tumbling oil prices forced the government to slash its budget. Prime Minister Najib Razak says the 2015 budget, announced in October, was based on oil prices averaging $100 a barrel but this …