Amnesty International says Egypt must launch an independent and thorough investigation into the recent killing of 10 men by security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
A local official says the death toll from the bombing of a refugee camp by Nigeria's air force has climbed to 236 — a sharp increase from earlier counts.
Berlin police say a man suspected of killing an elderly man and collecting his pension for a decade, before police found his body in a freezer, may have had a second victim.
The nationalist Alternative for Germany party says it will take "internal measures" against a prominent member for his comments suggesting ending the country's tradition of acknowledging and atoning for its Nazi past, but stopped short of expelling him from the party.
A top military official says forces allied with the internationally-recognized government of Yemen have seized control of a strategic Red Sea port, after waging an assault against Shiite rebels.
The top Hamas official from the Gaza Strip has arrived in Egypt for meetings with security officials, the highest level visit by a member of the Palestinian militant group since Egypt's army overthrew an Islamist president in 2013.
Iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation into violations of human rights and other abuses purportedly committed by government troops and paramilitary forces battling the Islamic State group to retake the city of Mosul.
Polish prosecutors have started questioning 21 anti-government protesters whose images have been posted by police over allegations they violated "legal order." The interior minister says that the suspects broke the law by blocking Prime Minister Beata Szydlo's car and disturbing the work of a state TV crew during the Dec. 16 protest outside parliament.