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PARIS – Families of surrogate children who have been effectively denied French citizenship are going to the country’s highest court to challenge the law denying papers for babies born abroad. Friday’s case could change how surrogate births are handled in France, where they are illegal. Until now, children born abroad …

BERLIN – A German court says it will not proceed with the trial of a former SS sergeant who served as a medic in the Auschwitz death camp because the 94-year-old is suffering from dementia. The Neubrandenburg state court said Monday that experts had determined that Hubert Z. was unfit …

ISLAMABAD – A spokesman for the international aid group Save the Children says the government of Pakistan has allowed it to reopen its offices. Saeed Ahmed, the group’s spokesman in Pakistan, says authorities removed a lock Wednesday on the gate to the group’s main office in Islamabad. That comes two …