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The Paris prosecutor's office says the suspect in last week's machete attack near the Louvre Museum is facing preliminary charges of attempted murder and association with a terrorist organization.

The Latest on the car crash involving Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo.

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The Italian government on Friday approved measures aimed at streamlining the decision process for asylum requests — as well as speeding up deportations of those whose bids have been denied — amid criticism from opposition leaders over the presence of the scores of migrants rescued at sea off Italy in the past few years.

Polish media are reporting that Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has been in a collision involving more than one car and has suffered bruises.

Authorities in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo threatened striking police officers with criminal charges.

While flamingo hunting is both illegal and uncommon in the South American nation, investigators from Zulia University in the northwestern Venezuelan city of Maracaibo have noted at least 20 cases of bird carcasses being discovered with their breasts and torsos removed.

Hungary's populist prime minister on Friday lashed out against billionaire financier George Soros, claiming he and groups backed by him want to secretly influence the country's politics.

Liberian authorities say they've impounded two foreign fishing vessels and are seeking $1 million in compensation.

A Libyan official says warplanes belonging to the country's east-based military have carried out at least nine airstrikes targeting Islamic militias near an oil field in central Libya.

Lebanon's state news agency says Beirut will file a lawsuit against the suspect behind the New Year's terror attack in Istanbul that killed 39 people, including three Lebanese citizens.

A regional leader of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel and seven other members of that criminal organization were killed in a shootout with federal forces, Mexican authorities said Friday.

Vatican officials are brushing off a spoof Vatican newspaper poking fun at Pope Francis that points to increasing conservative criticism of his mercy-over-morals priorities.

President Vladimir Putin thanked Slovenia on Friday for offering to host his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, but added that the prospect hinges on Washington.

The British government says it is shutting down a seven-year-old inquiry into allegations of abuse by U.K. troops in Iraq.

Just hours after armed conflict between two gangs erupted inside the Brazilian prison complex of Alcacuz, Maria Jose de Souza learned that her husband had died in the massacre.

A Hamburg court has upheld an injunction prohibiting a German television comedian from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Toledo is currently outside Peru and apparently was in Paris last weekend, although his usual residence is in the United States.

A graduate believed to be the first British woman to join the fight against the Islamic State in Syria says she sees her comrades as "a last step towards [ISIS] being finished".

The government of Brazil's southeastern state of Espirito Santo has indicted more than 700 military police officers for allegedly refusing to work as part of a pay raise movement that has led to a wave of violence and more than 100 deaths.