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Nigeria says President Muhammadu Buhari is taking leave for more than two weeks in Britain for medical checkups.

They are the would-be Donald Trumps of Europe and they are coming together in a bid to gain influence in some of the continent's most powerful nations.

At least 30 people were missing after a spa hotel was struck by an avalanche in a mountainous earthquake-stricken region of central Italy.

Bahraini authorities have lifted a ban preventing independent newspaper Al-Wasat from publishing online.

The European Central Bank has left its key interest rates and stimulus programs untouched, with President Mario Draghi due to explain Thursday why the bank is keeping its measures in place despite improved inflation and growth.

A monitoring group says 2016 was the deadliest year yet for journalists in Afghanistan.

Kosovo's foreign minister has written to his colleagues in the European Union, United States and other countries denouncing "numerous acts of provocation and aggression" from Serbia.

Indonesia's anti-graft commission has named a former top executive of national flag carrier Garuda as a suspect in a case involving bribes for the purchase of Rolls Royce aircraft engines.

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

The family smartphones? An assortment of Samsung Galaxies.

Poland's interior minister says the publication of photos of some participants in an anti-government protest last month shows that there is "zero tolerance for breaches of the law." Mariusz Blaszczak was referring Thursday to the controversial posting by Warsaw police of images of 21 people who took part in a huge Dec. 16 protest outside the parliament, in a bid to identify them.

Albanian police say they have arrested a female teacher for making statements supportive of the Islamic State extremist group.

Officials have placed more than half of Spain's 50 provinces under alert for heavy snow and sleet storms, with southern tourist towns reporting their first snowfalls in decades.

The Philippine national police chief has apologized to South Korea over the death of a Korean man who was arrested illegally and then slain by members of an anti-drug task force at the main police camp in Manila.

A senior Jordanian military commander says the kingdom faces a growing threat to its border as Islamic State extremists in neighboring Iraq and Syria are being dislodged from their strongholds by military offensives.

Bulgaria's new president, Rumen Radev, has taken his oath of office, preparing the way for him to formally take over the post from Rosen Plevneliev on Sunday.

The number of people registered as unemployed in the Netherlands fell by 100,000 last year, the biggest drop in a decade.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency is warning that Europe needs to remain vigilant against the threat of extremist attacks.

Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has killed 12 people it held captive in the ancient city of Palmyra by shooting and beheading them.

Uganda's government says hundreds of members of a Congolese rebel group have fled a military camp where they had been awaiting amnesty since the signing of a peace deal with Congo's government in 2014.