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Authorities say the West African regional military force that has been securing Gambia during its political transition is being reduced to 500 troops.

The human rights group Amnesty International is urging Myanmar's government to suspend operations at a copper mine jointly owned by its army and a Chinese state enterprise until its impact on human rights and the environment is properly addressed.

Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki are distributing fliers and making arrangements to evacuate about 75,000 people from three neighborhoods ahead of efforts to defuse a 500-pound unexploded World War II bomb.

This year's unusually cold winter has turned a Czech lake resort into a skating heaven.

A whistleblower on corruption within Ireland's national police force is suing the Irish government after learning that state authorities falsely smeared him as a child abuser.

Dutch police say they discovered nine migrants hiding in a refrigerated truck near the country's border with Belgium, after one of the migrants called officers because the group was so cold.

Iraqi officials say two suicide bombings in eastern Mosul, including one that hit a popular restaurant, have killed five people and wounded over a dozen others.

Swiss bank Julius Baer says it is facing a claim of 306 million euros ($325 million) for allegedly not preventing the embezzlement of assets from a foreign corporation.

Nothing is inevitable in financial markets — except perhaps the return of Greece as a source of concern.

Four environmental groups say they are filing a complaint to the European Union that accuses Poland of violating legal norms meant to control air pollution.

An army officer and self-defense commander say Boko Haram insurgents have ambushed a convoy of new recruits in northeast Nigeria, killing seven troops and abducting a female soldier.

A Danish prosecutor says a 16-year-old girl has been formally charged with planning bomb attacks against two schools in Denmark.

Police have used tear gas to disperse protesters trying to enter Ankara University to denounce a government decree that dismissed 330 academics.

Portugal's finance minister is at the center of a political storm that could decide his future in the government: did he or didn't he lie to Parliament? The opposition Popular Party claims it has proof Finance Minister Mario Centeno lied when he told lawmakers he had no written exchanges with the new head of a state-owned bank over that person's demands for accepting the job.

Britain's Court of Appeal has ruled that a plumber was entitled to employment rights in a case seen as a key test of labor rules in the new gig economy.

A Danish town says archaeologists have found some 13,000-year-old hunting tools that give "a fantastic insight" into how some of the first people in Denmark lived.

Portugal is going through a drought — in the middle of winter.

An Israeli newspaper is quoting President Donald Trump as saying that settlement expansion in land claimed by the Palestinians does not benefit peace.

The Paris prosecutor's office says French anti-terrorism forces have arrested four people, including a 16-year-old girl, and uncovered a makeshift laboratory with the explosive TATP.

Police in Thailand say a local politician in the country's deep south has been fatally shot by a group of heavily armed men clad in black.