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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan “strongly rejects” accusations by Afghanistan’s spy agency that a Pakistani intelligence officer helped orchestrate an attack on the Afghan parliament earlier this week. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday that the allegations aim to “disrupt the improving relations between the two brotherly nations.” It condemned …

LEXINGTON, N.C. – An inmate who authorities say escaped from a North Carolina lockup with the help of a prison employee has been recaptured, according to a state prisons spokeswoman. Kristopher McNeil, 29, was in custody in the Davidson County Jail, Department of Public Safety Communications Director Pamela Walker said …

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – An appeals court in the Slovak capital has upheld a lower court ruling that Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis did not collaborate with the communist-era secret police. Babis, a Slovak-born billionaire businessman, was trying to clear his name and sued Slovakia’s Institute of the Nation’s Memory, which …