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The International Monetary Fund is projecting an economic contraction of 9 percent this year in struggling Suriname.

Haitians will try yet again to elect a president this weekend despite the fact that much of the southwest is still in ruins from Hurricane Matthew, parts of the north have been battered by floods and the country remains in political disarray.

Diplomats say opposition activists were abducted and beaten before a demonstration against the cash-strapped government's plans to introduce a new currency.

French authorities have shut one of the biggest public hospitals in Paris because of a bomb threat.

At least 26 people were hurt, six critically, when a man set himself afire Friday inside a Melbourne, Australia-area bank, authorities said.

A Spanish court has given a reduced five-year prison sentence to a Moroccan woman who confessed to having tried to join the Islamic State group.

The president of Peru has started off an Asian-Pacific trade summit with a warning about what he sees as a growing threat to global free trade.

Police in Slovenia say they have seized nearly 900 kilograms (2,000 pounds) of drugs and detained 10 suspects in the biggest bust in the small Alpine nation in years.

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The European Union's top economy official says there's mounting evidence to show that Portugal is leaving behind its recent economic crisis.

More than 40 developing nations on the front lines of climate change have pledged to pursue 100 percent renewable energy.

A Catalan government opinion poll indicates people in the northeastern region are evenly divided over the question of independence from Spain, less than a year before the region's planned secession.

Court authorities in Macedonia have officially named 10 intelligence service employees as suspects in the illegal wiretapping of more than 5,800 phone numbers between 2008 and 2015, a scandal that plunged the country into a deep political crisis.

Angela Merkel says she feels a duty to serve her country and Europe, adding further fuel to rampant speculation she'll seek a fourth term as German chancellor.

Turkey's state-run news agency says 76 academics have been detained at a university in Istanbul as part of the ongoing investigation into the movement allegedly responsible for an attempted coup.

A new marble tomb has been installed for the reburial of Poland's former president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife, whose remains were exhumed Monday as part of a new investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed them and 94 others.

Italian prosecutors say they are investigating a former resident of Italy, now living in Iraq, as a foreign fighter for the Islamic State group.

Slovenia has made access to drinking water a constitutional right in a bid to protect the Alpine nation's water resources from excessive exploitation.

The leader of Italy's right-wing, anti-EU Northern League party is visiting Moscow two weeks ahead of Italy's referendum.

An Egyptian lawyer and the victim's family are accusing the country's police of beating and torturing to death a street vendor while in custody — the latest in a string of cases that have triggered criticism of police brutality and outrage on social media.