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The European Union has added Iran's Aseman Airlines to its blacklist of companies banned from European skies due to safety concerns.

The Philippine defense secretary said Thursday it is highly unlikely his country will allow the U.S. military to use it as a springboard for freedom of navigation patrols in the disputed South China Sea to avoid antagonizing China.

Britain's foreign secretary has claimed that U.K. ally Saudi Arabia was engaging in "proxy wars" in the Middle East — comments that Prime Minister Theresa May say do not represent Britain's position.

A surprise decision by Russia to sell a fifth of its state-controlled oil company to, among others, a Swiss company has raised questions about the impact of Western sanctions and who is behind the deal.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renounced the dollar in favor of the ailing Turkish lira in keeping with his appeal to Turkish citizens to do the same.

Amnesty International has urged Egyptian authorities to release a photojournalist jailed for more than three years in what the London-based rights group calls a "politically motivated" case.

An Egyptian official says security forces have arrested the son of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The lawyer for a teenager accused in the London slaying of a retired Florida teacher says the defendant is fit to stand trial next year.

Human Rights Watch is calling for an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over the war in Yemen, and says the United States might be complicit in "atrocities" there.

Hungary's prime minister is urging the Hungarian minority in Romania to vote in Sunday's parliamentary election there and "speak up for their own interests." Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke Thursday during a visit to western Romania, home to a large Hungarian minority.

A human rights group says the Philippines is facing one of the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the Asia Pacific, fueled by government policies that restrict intervention, including access to condoms by men who have sex with men.

A Greek court has rejected the extradition request by Turkey of the last two of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after a failed July military coup in Turkey, their lawyer Christos Mylonopoulos says.

The drama of Britain's exit from the European Union was being acted out this week on two of London's grandest stages — the Supreme Court and the House of Commons chamber.

Dozens of people have been injured in anti-India clashes that erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir following a gunbattle between rebels and government forces.

President Bashar Assad said in comments published Thursday that Syrian forces' victory in the battle for Aleppo will be a "big gain" for his government but that it will not end of the country's civil war.

The head of MI6, Britain's international spy agency, is warning that Britain cannot be safe until the war in Syria is brought to an end.

Roman Catholic Church authorities in Poland have announced the successor to the retiring archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who had been personal secretary to the late Pope St. John Paul II, a native of Poland.

The Latest on the European Central Bank's policy meeting (all times local): 1:45 p.m.

A state-owned newspaper in the United Arab Emirates is reporting that Abu Dhabi investigators are heading to the U.S. after police in Ohio shot dead an Emirati.

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