March 18, 2010 1:22 PM

LOME (AFP) - Togo's Constitutional Court Thursday in Lome confirmed the re-election of President Faure Gnassingbe in the March 4 polls, whose provisional results were contested by the opposition.

FRANKFURT (AFP) - Israel's Teva said on Thursday that it has signed a deal to buy Ratiopharm, Germany's second largest generic drugs producer, for 3.6 billion euros (4.9 billion dollars).

WARSAW (AFP) - A Polish court Thursday sentenced three men to up to two-and-a-half years in prison over the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp, Poland's PAP news agency reported.

MOSCOW (AFP) - A Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut back from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan, a mission control official in Moscow said on Thursday.

GAZA CITY (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda-inspired militant group, the Ansar al-Sunna Brigade, claimed responsibility on Thursday for firing a rocket from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, killing one man.

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