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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.

A survey shows that business activity across the 19-nation eurozone is growing at a relatively strong pace at the end of the year thanks to an upturn in manufacturing.

Canadian officials have visited North Korea and met with Canadian detainee Hyeon Soo Lim, who was sentenced to life in prison last year over what Pyongyang described as anti-state activities.

A Kuwait court has convicted and sentenced 16 people to two years in prison each for repeating a speech by an opposition leader previously deemed offensive to the nation's emir.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is brushing aside concerns that she might be angered that European Union leaders are meeting without her to discuss Europe's future.

Saudi Arabia's state oil company is setting up joint ventures with two international drilling companies as part of an effort to boost economic development in the kingdom.

Residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona are bracing for a forced evacuation after rejecting a final compromise to voluntarily leave their homes.

Poland's lower house of parliament has voted to eliminate middle schools and return to an earlier system in which children attended eight years of primary school followed by high school or vocational school.

One oil worker has been reported killed and nine more are missing in Azerbaijan after part of their offshore oil platform broke off in strong winds.

German police say there's evidence an Afghan refugee suspected of raping and killing a 19-year-old university student in Freiburg was also convicted of attempting to kill another woman in Greece.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is convening his final war-planning conference with core members of the anti-Islamic State coalition, dogged by questions about what Donald Trump's arrival in the White House next month will mean for the future of the coalition.

A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a restaurant in the Somali capital Thursday, killing himself and injuring three others.

A possible South Korean presidential contender says the country should reconsider its plans to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system to cope with North Korean threats.

A report by environmental group Greenpeace says Thai fishing fleets are operating thousands of kilometers (miles) from home in unregulated waters to dodge government oversight over illegal fishing and onboard human rights abuses.

The Latest on Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan (all times local): 4:35 p.m.

A Kabul airport official says 34 Afghan asylum seekers returned home after being deported from Germany the previous day.

The lawyer for a prominent Chinese human rights campaigner says police have detained his client for allegedly falsely using ID that wasn't his own to buy train tickets.

A Japanese-Australian community leader says he has filed a racial discrimination complaint against a Sydney church that he alleges has intimidated Japanese nationals by erecting a memorial to women forced to work as sex slaves by Japan's World War II army.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria where a cease-fire deal to allow evacuation of rebels and tens of thousands of civilians from eastern Aleppo is back on (all times local): 8:55 a.m.

The media arm of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group says overnight negotiations have reinforced a cease-fire deal to allow Syrian rebels and tens of thousands of civilians to leave the besieged eastern city of Aleppo.