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Activists say an airstrike on a Syrian village near the once-contested city of Aleppo has killed six civilians, including at least three children.

France's government has quietly backtracked on a policy that allowed children to leave the country without their parents' permission, after years of complaints from families of radicalized teens who left to join extremist groups.

Poland's interior minister says opposition lawmakers blocking the podium in parliament could face fines and possibly even up to 10 years of prison.

China is stressing mutual respect and cooperation in response to tough talk from Donald Trump's pick for U.S. secretary of state, who said the administration will block Chinese access to its fortified man-made islands in the South China Sea.

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The standoff between the Vatican and the Knights of Malta has taken a new twist, with the ousted foreign minister of the ancient aristocratic lay Catholic order appealing his suspension to the Knights' internal tribunal.

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A Japanese and two American scientists have been awarded the 2017 Crafoord Prize for fundamental discoveries in immune regulation.

Official data show that the German economy, Europe's biggest, grew by 1.9 percent last year.

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 bomb-and-shooting rampage, is set to address a court reviewing a government appeal against a ruling that his isolation in prison violates human rights.

Israeli media are reporting that police questioned the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an investigation into allegations that he improperly accepted gifts from wealthy supporters.

Industry figures show China's auto market had a bumper year in 2016 as sales grew by 15 percent, with drivers rushing to buy cars before a tax break expired at the end of the year.

Police are looking for people who built a snowman on railway tracks in northeastern Germany, prompting a train driver to slam on the brakes.

The top diplomats from Britain, Greece and Turkey are converging on Geneva as U.N.-hosted talks aimed to reunify long-divided Cyprus shift up to discussions about security.

Baboon grunts and mating calls may hold secrets about human speech, according to a new study suggesting that the origins of human language could reach back as much as 25 million years.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived for a two-day visit to Manila as the Philippines has boosted ties with China while taking a hostile stance toward Tokyo's main ally the United States.

Participants at an oil conference in crude-rich Abu Dhabi say they hope production cuts will drive prices even higher.

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

The Taliban released a video Wednesday purportedly showing an American and an Australian who were taken hostage in August, the first time they have been seen since their abduction.

India's foreign minister is demanding an apology from online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. for selling doormats depicting the Indian flag through its Canadian retail website.