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AMMAN, Jordan – A government official says Jordan has approved a request by the family of former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to bury him in the kingdom. Funeral details were not known. Aziz, 79, was Saddam Hussein’s staunchest defender to the world and the only Christian in the Iraqi …

MOSCOW – The daughter of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has blamed state propaganda for fomenting hatred and intolerance that contributed to his killing in February. Zhanna Nemtsova said in a column published Tuesday in the business daily Vedomosti that responsibility for her father’s death was shared by employees of …

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. experts said in a report circulated Tuesday that not a single country has reported any violations of an arms embargo against Iran, possibly the result of a political decision to avoid any “negative impact” on negotiations to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. The panel of experts …