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The top U.S. commander in Iraq says he expects to retake Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria from the Islamic State group within the next six months and the fight for western Mosul to begin in days.

A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship has been declared Somalia's new president.

A Brazilian governor says he needs more army troops to help cope with a police crisis that has led to a wave of violence and at least 80 deaths in his southeastern state.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has denied online chatter that he was having a secret gay affair.

The European Space Agency says it will contribute key components for a future NASA mission to take humans around the moon within the next few years.

Hungarian police say they have finished their investigation of a trove of Persian, Sumerian and Assyrian antiquities found last year in a truck.

Police say a group of neo-Nazis erected a wooden swastika, several meters tall, at a private party in a village in southern Germany.

Belgian police have detained 11 people in a series of anti-terror raids in the Brussels area relating to an investigation into the possible return of fighters from Syria.

Russia has just sent Syria the largest shipment of missiles between the two countries to date, the latest delivery between the two allies that could further change the stakes in the Middle East, US officials told Fox News on Wednesday.

German authorities have arrested a Russian national accused of undergoing military training in Syria with the Islamic State group.

A Polish court has handed one-year suspended prison terms and fined two Portuguese teenagers who wrote their names on a gate of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

An official says studies are underway for an undersea electric cable that aims to link the electricity grids of Egypt, Cyprus and Greece with the rest of Europe.

The Russian embassy in Nigeria says seven Russian sailors and a Ukrainian have been kidnapped from a cargo ship in Nigerian waters.

The European Union and United States are sending five experts to Albania to assess how the country evaluates the personal and professional backgrounds of judges and prosecutors.

The Russian military has deployed its air defense missiles around Moscow as part of massive drills, to practice response to an air attack.

A Russian court on Wednesday found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty in the retrial of a 2013 fraud case, which disqualifies him as a candidate for president next year.

A Zimbabwean judge has ordered that a pastor arrested for organizing anti-government protests be freed on bail.

Residents say they have heard gunfire for a second day in a southeast Ivory Coast town as officials try to end the latest mutiny by security forces over pay.

A high-ranking Tanzanian official says his government is considering legal action to force former colonizer Germany to pay reparations for alleged atrocities committed over a century ago.

The leaders of Germany and Uruguay say they hope to push forward talks on a free-trade deal between the European Union and South America's Mercosur group amid uncertainty about the new U.S. administration's approach to trade.