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Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, just back from Pearl Harbor, on Thursday visited a Tokyo shrine that honors Japan's war dead, including convicted war criminals.

When Wilson Lopez lived in the jungle, he thought civilian life in the city meant meeting people, walking the streets, having a job.

The European Union has joined the outgoing U.S. administration in defending the two-state solution as the best way to achieve lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine say the government has released 15 people who had been held in custody.

An Argentine court is ordering a renewed investigation into a prosecutor's accusation that former President Cristina Fernandez covered up the alleged involvement of Iranians in a 1994 attack against a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

Officials say torrential rains and flooding have left at least 50 people dead in southwestern Congo.

Authorities in Congo say a key opposition figure has been sentenced to five years in prison amid heightened political tensions in this Central African nation.

A Tunisian man detained Wednesday in connection with the Berlin terror attack was released Thursday after German prosecutors determined he had not been in contact with the militant behind the Christmas market massacre.

Serbia has signed a deal to buy nine light choppers from Airbus Helicopters amid tensions in the region triggered by Russia's donation of jet fighters to the Balkan state.

A human rights lawyer says three convicted criminals have been secretly executed in the first hangings in Nigeria since 2003.

Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Thursday that there are no indications that the Tunisian fugitive from the Berlin Christmas market attack, who was shot dead near Milan, had any particular contacts in Italy.

A top Islamic State military commander described as a "gang leader" for the terror group was killed by a coalition airstrike in Syria, the U.S. military confirmed on Thursday.

Unemployment has jumped yet again in Latin America's largest economy, which is in deep recession.

The major players involved in the long-running Syrian conflict have agreed to a cease-fire set to begin at midnight on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier in the day.

Albania's Central Election Commission has cancelled the mandates of two members of Parliament and a mayor because of their criminal records.

A flight simulator has caught fire in an office building at the Frankfurt airport, forcing some 200 people to evacuate.

Italy's premier says he was taken aback by the European Central Bank's move to significantly increase the amount of money that troubled bank Monte dei Paschi will need.

Kosovo's Parliament has voted to demolish a concrete wall erected by the Serb ethnic minority in the northern city of Mitrovica.