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Author’s note: President Obama had a 90-minute phone call with President Putin Saturday after troops entered Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. No official transcript was released. Here’s my take on what might have been said, and what I hope Obama told Russia’s president. Obama: We condemn with the strongest possible words your …

DAKAR, Senegal – Human rights activists say that Cameroonian authorities have been holding 84 children in detention after they raised a series of schools accused of supporting Boko Haram. Amnesty International said Friday that some of the children are as young as 5 years old, and have been held for …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Prosecutors have reopened their case against former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to present new evidence gleaned from a mass grave discovered in Bosnia in 2013. More than 400 bodies have been recovered from the grave in Tomasica …