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The lawyer for the main suspect in a high-speed train attack thwarted by three Americans last year in northern France says that her client acted on orders from the leading member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015.

On a bustling commercial road in the Kurdish capital of Erbil stands a grimy brown building bound by a high barbed-wire fence. A few armed men sit in a decrepit watchtower. Behind the cement walls of the Women and Children's Prison of Erbil, where an array of female ISIS jihadists are held.

French President Francois Hollande has come to the defense of Greece after European creditors pulled a recently announced debt relief package for the country.

The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic has ended and three U.N.

European Union diplomats say Israel demolished 866 structures in 2016, leaving 1,221 Palestinians homeless, almost half of them children.

Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry says traces of explosives have been found on some of the victims of an EgyptAir flight from Paris that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May.

Human rights groups have renewed calls for a full investigation into the disappearance of a well-known community organizer four years ago at a police checkpoint in the capital of Laos.

Britain's fertility regulator has approved controversial techniques allowing doctors to create babies using the DNA from three people — what it called a "historic" decision to help prevent a small number of children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases from their mothers.

German prosecutors say two employees at a medical practice in the western city of Marburg have been fatally shot.

Sweden's militarily strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland has turned down a Russian request to rent harbor space after the government warned it could harm the Scandinavian country's defense and political interests.

Montenegro says it's seeking the extradition of a man photographed standing near Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week in Serbia on suspicion he took part in an alleged coup attempt.

Lufthansa says it will buy the remaining 55 percent stake in Brussels Airline it doesn't already own, and integrate the Belgian carrier into its Eurowings subsidiary.

Egypt's official MENA news agency says a top militant who was convicted and sentenced to death for the killing of 25 policemen in 2013 has been executed.

Vietnam's government says U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told Vietnam's prime minister in a telephone conversation that he hopes to promote relations with the Communist country.

Aleppo's mayor has appealed to European Union leaders to send monitors to help ensure the safety of thousands of civilians trying to flee the besieged Syrian city.

Belgian authorities have detained four people after a series of raids to break up a weapons smuggling ring trying to send guns into Libya in defiance of a U.N.

An international rights group says Turkey has "all but silenced independent media" in an accelerating crackdown on journalists who are being detained on "bogus charges" including terrorism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Japan on Thursday for a two-day summit that marks his first official visit to a G-7 country since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.

The European Union has earmarked hundreds of millions of euros for the northern African nation of Niger as part of its efforts to stop migrants from reaching Europe.

Shares in Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset empire have fallen nearly 8 percent after the Italian government suggested it wouldn't accept a hostile takeover by France's Vivendi media group.