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BUCHAREST, Romania – A teenager has died after she was electrocuted while taking selfies atop a parked train in northeast Romania. Anna Ursu, 18, was hospitalized in the St. Spiridon Hospital in the city of Iasi on Friday with severe burns after she apparently touched a high-voltage wire above the …

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – A Nigerian official says Boko Haram extremists have seized back the northeastern border town Marte and are attacking villages, weeks after the military said it had contained the insurgents in a forest stronghold. Deputy Gov. Zannah Umar Mustapha of Borno state says hundreds of female suicide bombers …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan judge on Tuesday sentenced 11 policemen to one year in prison for their role in the mob killing of a woman in Kabul. Judge Safiullah Mojadedi, presiding in Afghanistan’s Primary Court, found the policemen guilty of dereliction of duty. Another eight were released for lack …