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Former Nigerian rulers have banded together in singing a hymn for peace and unity in their troubled nation, with their video getting both favorable and derogatory comments on social media.

A leading insurer says that last year saw the highest costs from natural disasters since 2012, with a pair of earthquakes in Japan in April accounting for the heaviest losses.

State media say an official in southwest China has shot and wounded two city leaders before killing himself.

A northern Denmark judge says she is strongly considering taking legal steps against South Korean journalists for violating Danish law by filming inside a courtroom the daughter of the impeached South Korean president's confidante during a detention hearing.

A Pakistani police official says a roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying police in the country's northwest, wounding four officers and 15 passers-by.

A closely monitored survey of economic activity across the 19-country eurozone shows the region ended 2016 on a positive note, with growth accelerating to its highest level since May 2011.

The Latest on the trial of an Israeli soldier on charges of manslaughter over the death of a wounded Palestinian attacker (all times local): 11:30 a.m.

Britain's outgoing ambassador to the European Union has strongly criticized the government's approach to Brexit negotiations in a farewell email to his staff.

A state-owned newspaper in Abu Dhabi is reporting the emirate's new charge on foreigners renting homes will be backdated to February of last year — meaning a big initial bill for new tenants.

A French court has granted the son of Equatorial Guinea's president more time to prepare his defense against charges that he spent millions in government funds on high-end cars, art and real estate abroad while his compatriots languish in poverty.

An Arab separatist group has claimed two pipeline bombings in Iran's oil-rich south and threatened more attacks in the coming year.

Turkey says repeated cease-fire violations by the Syrian government are threatening to derail scheduled peace talks in Kazakhstan.

Turkey's parliament has voted to extend by a further three months a state of emergency that was declared in the aftermath of the failed July 15 coup.

An Israeli military court is set to deliver the verdict in the case of a soldier tried for manslaughter for the death of a wounded Palestinian attacker.

Morocco has become the latest Muslim-majority country to authorize Islamic banks, amid growing market demand for Sharia-compliant banking.

The family of an Iraqi female journalist kidnapped in Baghdad last week says she has been released.

The Latest on the Istanbul nightclub attack (all times local): 10:35 a.m.

The family of an Iraqi female journalist kidnapped in Baghdad last week says she has been released.

Indonesia says it has suspended military cooperation with Australia over an alleged insult of Indonesia's state ideology.

The decorative clock bearing the name of America's incoming 45th president has yet to start at the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, but the developers behind the project already are counting the money they've made.