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BANGUI, Central African Republic – Central African Republic’s president says authorities are in negotiations to secure the release of a French aid worker and her Central African colleague who were kidnapped this week. A foreign U.N. staffer was also briefly held this week by a militia group. The spate of …

BERLIN – Germany’s ver.di trade union says private security personnel at the country’s Duesseldorf and Cologne-Bonn airports will stage a one-day warning strike Thursday in an ongoing dispute over wages. Union representative Andrea Becker told the dpa news agency Wednesday that after three unsuccessful rounds of talks, ver.di hopes to …

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine air force said one of its Italian-made light planes crashed at sea on a training mission Saturday, killing the two pilots. The single-prop SF-260FH was flying in formation with two other planes on a training flight when it crashed off Nasugbo township in Batangas province …