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The National Library of Israel said Thursday it has acquired what is considered the world's greatest private collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts.

Adama Barrow is a former businessman and real estate mogul who emerged as the unlikely head of a coalition of several Gambian opposition parties.

For nearly 50 years, Israel's settler movement has been criticized, condemned and ostracized by the international community.

Slovenia, the birthplace of America's next first lady, plans to deploy troops to Latvia, joining NATO efforts to defend the Baltics against a possible Russian threat.

A Turkish legislator has handcuffed herself to the parliament's rostrum in protest at a contentious reform package that would give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office executive powers.

Italian search-and-rescue workers were redoubling their efforts to find the more than 30 people missing at a four-star spa hotel struck by an avalanche Wednesday in a mountainous earthquake-stricken region of central Italy.

A series of photomontages showing people striking poses, taking selfies and even juggling at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin before the background changes to show them posing amid piles of murdered victims of the Holocaust has gone viral online.

The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local): 5:15 p.m.

A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by fire collapsed on Thursday, killing at least 30 firefighters and injuring some 75 people, state media reported.

One inauguration has been planned for months, with a global spotlight and a Washington setting.

Pakistani police say Muslim clerics attacked a rally calling for the release of five anti-Taliban activists and bloggers who went missing earlier this month.

Shells slammed into the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday, killing two people as thousands of government supporters gathered in a main square nearby to celebrate last month's capture of the city's eastern neighborhoods from rebels.

A Kosovo court has sentenced seven Albanian citizens on charges of terror, participating in terror groups and recruiting for Islamic terror groups in Syria.

Mexico's president has called for reflection after a 15-year-old student opened fire in a middle-school classroom, hitting a teacher and two other students in the head before killing himself.

Greece's president says an insistence by Turkey and Turkish Cypriots on keeping troops and military intervention rights on Cyprus even after the ethnically split island is reunified is "anachronistic" and unacceptable." President Procopis Pavlopoulos says such positions are contrary to European Union norms and would create "dangerous precedents" if implemented.

The British government says six U.K. citizens have been killed and others injured in a road crash in Saudi Arabia.

International aid workers have opened a new desalination plant in the Gaza Strip, bringing some relief to a territory where 97 percent of the water is undrinkable.

European Union lawmakers have rejected a proposed blacklist of countries at risk of money laundering and terror financing because it is too limited.

Spain's Supreme Court has sentenced a rapper musician to a year in prison for exalting terrorism and humiliating terrorism victims in Twitter messages.

The Latest on the European Central Bank's monetary policy meeting (all times local): 2:40 p.m.