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Kenya's opposition lawmakers are protesting the passing of a bill to allow manual counting of election results, calling it a backdoor to rigging next year's presidential vote.

A Cairo appeals court has upheld a one-year sentence on charges of "spreading false news" for Egypt's former chief auditor, who alleged massive government corruption.

Ikea, the leading Swedish home furnishings retailer, says "a tentative settlement" has been reached in the case involving three families in the United States whose children died after Ikea chests and dressers tipped over.

The nightmares returned to Catherine Cocampo this week — visions of a truck careening through crowds, leaving a trail of corpses behind it.

Russia will supply Serbia with fighter jets, tanks and combat vehicles, a move that potentially strengthens Moscow's influence in the Balkans.

A rights group says Congo security forces have killed at least 34 people amid protests in Congo against President Joseph Kabila's extended rule, as mediators urge the ruling and opposition parties to find a way out of the political crisis.

Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told an annual end-of-year meeting with the defense ministry to be ready for potential threats at the Russian border.

A pro-democracy activist in Thailand has been rearrested after his bail was revoked in a case accusing him of sharing online a Thai-language BBC story about the country's new king.

North Korea's Foreign Ministry says South Korea is stepping up efforts to encourage North Koreans overseas, especially diplomats, to defect.

The French foreign minister has expressed support for Lebanon's efforts to battle terrorism and host refugees during a visit to Beirut.

A restaurant fire whipped by high winds spread to at least 140 buildings Thursday in a small Japanese city on the Japan Sea coast.

Santa and Father Frost, not tanks and troops, have met up at the busiest border crossing between Russia and Finland.

The United Nations says two mortar attacks in the Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this week killed four aid workers and seven other civilians.

Pope Francis has denounced the resistance he is encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, saying some of it is inspired by the devil and that the prelates who work for him must undergo a process of "permanent purification" to serve him and the Catholic Church better.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told an annual end-of-year meeting with the defense ministry to be ready for potential threats at the Russian border.

A Swedish man is claiming to be the first person in the world to have reached the South Pole in a wheelchair.

A U.S.-based Muslim cleric on Thursday condemned the killing of Russia's envoy to Turkey and rejected accusations that his movement was behind the attack.

When tanks rolled through the streets of central Moscow in August 1991, my mother's initial reaction was alarm, and she immediately thought about accounts she had read of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena edged closer to a state bailout with its capital raising efforts falling short of the 5 billion euros ($5.2 billion) it is seeking to stay afloat.