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The United Kingdom faces a Christmas of discontent as labor unions threaten to disrupt airports, rail services and mail deliveries.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria where thousands more civilians and rebels are expected to leave the eastern part of the city of Aleppo under a key cease-fire deal (all times local): 5:15 p.m.

Zimbabwe's ruling party has endorsed 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe as its candidate in a national election scheduled for 2018.

More than 30 political detainees in South Sudan's most notorious prison face torture, starvation or death, according to a Danish man detained alongside them for over two months before being released in late November.

Oil giant BP PLC has agreed to an onshore oil deal with the Mideast emirate of Abu Dhabi worth $2.22 billion following years of negotiations.

Children scamper in the bush, jumping here and there to catch grasshoppers before they fly away.

The military wing of an ethnic rebel group in Myanmar says government forces have started launching attacks on its headquarters.

Dozens of people have participated in a gay pride event in highly conservative Montenegro where authorities are promising to boost gay rights as part of efforts to join the European Union.

West African leaders at a summit in Nigeria are discussing the Gambian president's refusal to accept electoral defeat.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has harshly criticized U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's recent comments about Iran posing a threat to the region.

The Eiffel Tower has closed for a fifth day in a strike over working conditions — causing disappointment for scores of tourists.

Opponents of Poland's populist government are staging a new protest in Warsaw, gathering outside the presidential palace in an appeal to the head of state to protect the young democracy's constitutional order from a series of government steps they deem anti-democratic.

The Pentagon said Saturday that China will return a U.S. Navy drone seized in international waters.

The head of the European Union border control agency says that about 350,000 migrants have arrived in the EU so far this year.

A very strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and a tsunami threat has been issued to areas near the epicenter.

Pope Francis is celebrating an active if low-key 80th birthday, sharing breakfast with eight homeless people before celebrating Mass with cardinals.

Death in Aleppo was personal for Modar Sheko.

An agreement was reached Saturday to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were suspended a day earlier, Hezbollah's media arm and a monitoring group said.

Security officers have restored order at a prison in the central English city of Birmingham one day after an estimated 600 inmates seized control and launched a destructive rampage.

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye clashed with anti-Park protesters Saturday, as large crowds of demonstrators again gathered in Seoul to demand the scandal-ridden leader's immediate ouster.