ITALY-COURTHOUSE SHOOTING

MILAN — A gunman opened fire in a Milan courtroom on Thursday, killing a judge and as many as two other people before being captured as he tried to flee on a motorbike, news reports and Italy's interior minister said. SENT: 210 words, photos. 

UKRAINE

KIEV, Ukraine — Amnesty International said Thursday that it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine have killed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law. The human rights group said in a statement that footage it has seen shows at least four Ukrainian soldiers — now confirmed dead — being interrogated by rebel militia. Pictures showing bullet wounds to the soldier's heads and bodies appeared to show they had died as the result of summary killings, the group said. 

EUROPOL-CYBERCRIME

LONDON — A new group of international cybercrime fighters claimed one of its first kills Thursday, pulling the plug on malicious servers that hijacked at least 12,000 machines, most of them in the United States. The elimination of the Beebone botnet is an early success chalked up by the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, a coordination body created last year by the FBI, Britain's National Crime Agency, Europol and host of other international law enforcement agencies. 

BRITAIN-CHARLES AND CAMILLA

LONDON — The heir to the British throne and his consort, Camilla, are celebrating 10 years of marriage — a decade in which Camilla's public image has gone from aristocratic home-wrecker to admired addition to the royal family. Prince Charles and Camilla are celebrating Thursday's anniversary privately at the royals' Balmoral estate in Scotland. 

TURKEY-JOURNALISTS CHARGED

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper says two of its journalists have been charged with "openly insulting the people's religious values" for featuring French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's cover with the image of the Prophet Muhammad in their columns. The pro-secular newspaper said Thursday that columnists Ceyda Karan and Hikmet Cetinkaya could be sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison if convicted. 

RUSSIA-MOLDOVA

MOSCOW — Russian troops have conducted military exercises in Moldova's pro-Russia separatist region. Russian news agencies on Thursday quoted an army representative saying that 400 troops and 30 pieces of weaponry were involved in drills in Trans-Dniester, a narrow strip of land squeezed between Moldova and Ukraine. 

RUSSIA-GREECE

MOSCOW — As a sign of a blossoming friendship, Russian President Vladimir Putin has given visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras an ancient Greek icon stolen by Nazis during the German occupation of Greece. Greece's international creditors are watching Tsipras' visit to Russia with concern amid speculation that Greece might seek aid from Russia, as a bargaining chip with Western creditors. 

GERMANY-ECONOMY

FRANKFURT, Germany — Official figures show German industrial production rose 0.2 percent in February from the month before. The increase beat expectations among market analysts for a 0.1 percent increase. But it comes along with a sharp downward revision for January's figure, to minus 0.4 percent from plus 0.6 percent. 

BRITAIN-OIL-DISCOVERY

LONDON — A British energy company says an oil field near London's Gatwick Airport is much larger than previously thought, though experts warn it will be hard to tap. UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC says research found as much as 158 million barrels per square mile in the Weald Basin in southern England, indicating it may hold more than 10 times as much oil as previously estimated.