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PARIS – A 15-year-old French Muslim girl has missed school for two days this month in a dispute over her long black skirt, seen as going against France’s law guaranteeing secularism. A popular Twitter hashtag #jeportemajupecommejeveux (I wear my skirt as I like) popped up on Wednesday after the dispute …

MEXICO CITY – Political analysts say the increasingly powerful Mexican drug cartel known as Jalisco New Generation was showing off its muscles in a spasm of violence that killed seven people and forced down a military helicopter in western Mexico. Jalisco state is relatively calm Saturday after the previous day …

CONAKRY, Guinea – A new political party in Guinea has named as its chairman former strongman Moussa Dadis Camara, who took power by staging a coup and was later shot in the head and went into exile, his lawyer said Tuesday. Camara resigned from the army in March and was …