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BELGRADE, Serbia – Fearing unrest, Serbia’s police have banned gatherings honoring the victims of the Srebrenica massacre 20 years ago as well as those by ultranationalists who have threatened to disrupt the event. Liberal Serbian groups have planned to organize a happening in Belgrade on Saturday when some 7,000 people …

BEIJING – Chinese authorities have accused securities firms of manipulating share prices and allowing improper trading during the country’s market plunge, in a possible effort to deflect blame for investor losses totaling several trillion dollars. The accusations follow drastic official efforts to stop price declines that caused China’s market benchmark …

MANAMA, Bahrain – Bahraini authorities say a man died when a bomb, which he was trying to plant to target police, went off in the strategic Gulf island kingdom. The Interior Ministry says on its Twitter feed on Wednesday that the person died in the village of Eker, south of …

BEIRUT – A Lebanese official says authorities are searching for five Czech nationals and their Lebanese driver who have gone missing in eastern Lebanon. The police official says their car was found Saturday a few hundred meters (yards) away from a Lebanese army checkpoint in the town of Kefraya. A …

MANSEHRA, Pakistan – Authorities in Pakistan say an earthquake that jolted the country early this morning has killed three people. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.1 quake rocked Islamabad and elsewhere in northwest Pakistan at 2 a.m. Saturday. The tremor was so strong that people came out of their …

ADELAIDE, Australia – The decomposed remains of a young girl found in a suitcase dumped in Australia do not belong to missing British girl Madeleine McCann, police say. The bones were found earlier this month in bushes near the South Australia state capital Adelaide. South Australia Police Detective Police Superintendent …

ISLAMABAD – Officials say Pakistani and Indian border guards have traded gunfire and mortar shells along their disputed border in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing two Pakistanis and an Indian villager. Pakistan’s military said six civilians also were wounded due to Tuesday’s “unprovoked” firing by Indian troops in the …

FLORENCE, Italy – Italy is moving ahead with its money-laundering case against the Bank of China. Florence’s deputy public prosecutor Giulio Monferini, who is in charge of the case, says the trial of the bank’s Milan branch and 297 others, mostly Chinese living in Italy, is scheduled to begin in …

BERLIN – German federal prosecutors have dropped a much-criticized treason investigation of two journalists over their reports on secret plans to expand online surveillance in Germany. Website Netzpolitik.org was notified of the investigation of its founder and another journalist in late July. Justice Minister Heiko Maas questioned federal prosecutors’ decision …

VIENNA – Iran has given the U.N. nuclear agency documents linked to the agency’s probe of allegations that Tehran tried to develop atomic arms. The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran also provided an explanation of what the documents mean. The agency gave no details. But any Iranian explanation …