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Authorities in China have detained an 84-year-old dissident academic Sun Wenguang. They burst into his home and dragged him away just as he was being interviewed by U.S. government broadcaster, VOA.

"In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project," Johansson said in a statement Friday.

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The AFD is benefiting from being the official opposition to Chancellor Merkel's grand coalition government. Polls rate it Germany's second most popular party, dropping the Social Democrats to third.

The countries have submitted a request to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for an investigation of alleged human rights abuses in Venezuela dating back to 2014.

Spain's culture ministry has canceled upcoming concerts featuring opera great Placido Domingo following reports of a years-long pattern of sexual abuse by the tenor.

The policy is known as Kassengesetz, and it's meant to increase transparency and prevent tax fraud. Critics say it just creates mountains of wasted paper, and shops are complying in creative fashion.

In remarks to the legislature, the prime minister said the possibility that the U.S. would raise the duty on auto imports from his country as high as 25 percent is "hard for Japan to understand."

Last week I suggested that no small business can be really successful until it is ready to be sold. A sale requires a willing buyer with sufficient…

Ivan Duque won the presidency of Colombia Sunday. The conservative campaigned against the peace process with the leftist FARC movement. Duque defeated former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro.