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BRUSSELS – Tunisia is open to discuss a European Union request to step up migrant reception centers in the country as part of a wider EU initiative to cope with an influx of asylum seekers. Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday the EU plan “will …

UNITED NATIONS – Congo’s foreign minister says friction with the U.N.’s largest peacekeeping force over human rights violations by two Congolese generals is not his country’s fault, and he says the time has come for Congo to take full responsibility for its security. Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda addressed the U.N. …

MADRID – Two fledgling parties that have shaken up Spain’s political scene were testing their voter appeal on Sunday in parliamentary elections in the unemployment-ravaged Andalusia region. The left-wing party Podemos party has links to Greece’s anti-austerity Syriza and hopes to replicate its rise to power. Podemos means “We Can.” …