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German Chancellor Merkel says Europe can only master global challenges if it is willing to "take on more responsibility in the world in the future." The chancellor spoke after receiving a joint honorary doctorate from the Belgian universities of Ghent and Leuven in Brussels on Thursday.

Nearly 30 years ago, Donald Trump was confident he would win the U.S. presidential election — as an independent in 1996, according to recently uncovered files from Czechoslovakia's Communist-era secret police.

A New Zealand father and daughter missing at sea for four weeks turned up safely on Australia’s South Coast on Wednesday.

A human rights group says the Turkish government used last year's failed military coup to launch an expansive crackdown that swept up peaceful critics and undermined democracy.

Two people have been charged on suspicion of providing fake documents to a man who helped plan the Paris terror attacks that killed 130 people.

German public broadcaster ARD says it may take legal action after being refused access to a conference of European nationalist leaders later this month.

Authorities in Russia's second-largest city are defending a controversial decision to give a city landmark cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church.

A self-declared prime minister in Libya says his forces have seized at least three ministries in the capital and is declaring a return of his government after what he described as a yearlong failure of the current U.N.-backed premier.

The U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Thursday that its investigation into a November firefight with the Taliban in northern Kunduz province has shown that 33 civilians died in the raid during which U.S. troops fired on Afghan homes.

Madrid's zoo has named its latest baby panda Chulina, meaning Cutey.

Romanian officials say two tigers were among a number of animals that died when a fire broke out at an animal shelter which houses animals retired from the circus.

Human Rights Watch says in a new report that Egypt has banned public criticism and peaceful opposition, and that security forces routinely torture detainees and forcibly disappeared hundreds last year.

A human rights group says civilians are being abducted and tortured by fighters on both sides of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The Latest on public displays of dissent against Gaza's electricity woes (all times local): 5:30 p.m.

An Albanian court has sentenced a former mayor to 32 months in jail for abusing his post and sexually harassing a young woman who worked at City Hall.

A Pakistani court on Thursday stayed the execution of a mentally ill convict who was sentenced to death in 2003 for murdering a fellow police officer over a land dispute, a rights group said.

Officials in Zimbabwe say wildlife park rangers have killed three suspected poachers in the past two days as the country battles increased targeting of vulnerable animals.

A Kenyan court has ordered the doctors' union to halt a state doctors' strike, that has caused near paralysis of the health sector, or face a month in jail.

Lebanon has closed a landfill at the foot of a runway at the Beirut international airport in response to concerns that seagulls circling around the site pose a threat to aircraft safety.

A major shareholder in Saudi airline Flynas says the discount carrier has reached a deal to buy $8.6 billion worth of planes from European plane-maker Airbus.