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Russia's Supreme Court has upheld the decision of a Russian city to ban Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist group.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman tells The Associated Press that Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar Assad is not unconditional.

Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.

Austria's chancellor is offering the country as a new home for the Central European University in Budapest, after Hungarian lawmakers approved laws for tighter regulation of foreign universities.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he has ordered the military to occupy and fortify all Philippine-held islands in the disputed South China Sea to assert the country's claims amid what he says is a race to control territory in the area.

The Latest on the bombing of the St. Petersburg subway in Russia (all times local): 11:15 a.m.

Turkey said Thursday that autopsies of Syrian victims from this week's assault in Syria's Idlib province show they were subjected to chemical weapons as France's foreign minister called for the prosecution of President Bashar Assad's government amid growing international outrage over the assault that activists say killed 86 people.

After a near-90 year ban, women can again swim topless legally in Geneva's lake and Rhone River without running the risk of a fine.

Secret, makeshift health care centers have become crucial to the survival of Syrian civilians – and more are in the planning process as the 6-year-old war drags on and hospitals are targeted.

German police say an Austrian teenager who contacted authorities after an online chat with a German youth may have helped prevent an attack on the German's schoolmates or teachers.

Llanes' apartment looks like any that's home to two infants, albeit infants able to scramble up chairs, tables and virtually any other object with already-strong arms and legs.

A fundraising event that would imitate a "full crucifixion experience" on people in Manchester was canceled Wednesday over blasphemy and safety concerns.

Russian security agents on Thursday arrested three people suspected of links to a suicide bomber accused of attacking the city's subway and deactivated an explosive device in the apartment where the suspects lived.

The Iraqi government says Islamic State group militants have shot down an Iraqi army helicopter over Mosul, killing the two-member crew.

The rift between the European Union and member state Hungary is widening, with the EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker criticizing two recent issues that are seen as pushing Budapest away from EU values.

A U.S. military spokesman says Afghan and international forces have reduced the territory controlled by Islamic State militants in Afghanistan by two-thirds and killed around half the affiliate's fighters in the last two years.

The Iraqi government says Islamic State group militants have shot down an Iraqi army helicopter over Mosul, killing the two-member crew.

Hungary's interior minister says a police officer has been fired for abusing migrants, the first such decision after repeated reports by human rights advocates about cases of ill-treatment.

The European Union has increased its sanctions on North Korea because of its nuclear program and the threat it poses to the region with its recent ballistic missile testing.

A loud explosion damaged an apartment building Thursday in St. Petersburg, Russia, days after the deadly subway attack in that city, witnesses said.