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Planes and helicopters have flown over the Romanian capital as thousands turned out to celebrate the national day, marking the date when the country reunified with Transylvania in 1918.

A popular independent online news outlet in the Gulf nation of Qatar says its website has been blocked inside the energy-rich country.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says his country and Russia want a cease-fire in Syria, where the two nations support opposing camps in the conflict.

German police say they're carrying out checks on freight trains entering Germany from Austria after dozens of migrants entered the country as stowaways on such trains in recent weeks.

Israel's new ambassador to Turkey has arrived in Ankara as the two countries seek to mend relations that soured after a deadly Israeli naval raid on a Turkish ship headed for Gaza.

Thailand is preparing to welcome a new king with final arrangements scheduled to formalize the accession of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to the throne.

South Korean police say they have detained a man suspected of setting fire to the birthplace of late military dictator Park Chung-hee, the father of current President Park Geun-hye.

Foreign governments are warning citizens in Indonesia to stay away from central Jakarta ahead of a huge rally against the capital's minority Christian governor.

Police say a fire has engulfed a factory manufacturing explosives in southern India and 15 workers are feared dead and another three injured.

The death of reporter Regina Martinez was almost too much for her colleagues to bear.

Fidel Castro's ashes are completing the first leg of a more than 500-mile (800-kilometer) journey across Cuba, traveling in a flag-draped cedar coffin through small towns and cities where his rebel army fought its way to power nearly 60 years ago.

Simultaneous tear-filled tributes were held at packed stadiums in Colombia and Brazil for the victims of this week's air tragedy that claimed 71 lives when a chartered plane crashed while ferrying a scrappy, small-town soccer team to the finals of a prestigious South American tournament.

Congress formally ratified a revised peace agreement with Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, capping a torturous four years of negotiations, a stunning referendum rejection, last-minute compromises and two signing ceremonies.

China's Finance Ministry has imposed an additional 10 percent import tax on luxury cars in the communist government's latest move to curb ostentatious spending.

West Papuan protesters faced off with police in the Indonesian capital on Thursday in a demonstration calling for the remote region's independence.

Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali-born student accused of carrying out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University this week, reportedly protested on his Facebook page about the killing of minority Muslims in Myanmar.

After five decades of war, more than four years of negotiations and two signing ceremonies, Colombia's congress late Wednesday formally ratified a peace agreement allowing leftist rebels to enter politics.

The managers of an apparently unregistered coal mine in northeast China are under questioning as rescuers tried Thursday to reach 22 workers trapped for a third day.

The Chinese engineering firm responsible for building a cooling tower where 74 workers were killed has offered about $175,000 in compensation to each of the victims' families, state media reported.

An official survey has found that Chinese factory activity rose again in November to its highest in more than two years.