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Thousands of steel workers from across the European Union are protesting at the EU's headquarters to demand more job security and increased protection from cheap foreign imports.

A spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev says the 85-year-old former Soviet leader is in hospital for a scheduled operation.

Iran's state TV says a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims has crashed, killing 26 people and wounding 16 others.

Cuba has announced five days of nationwide military exercises to prepare troops to confront what the government calls "a range of enemy actions." The government did not link the exercises to Donald Trump's U.S. presidential victory but the announcement of maneuvers and tactical exercises across the country came nearly simultaneously with confirmation of Trump's surprise win on Wednesday.

The European Union says that economic growth in Britain is set to "almost halve" next year because of the impact of the June referendum vote to leave the 28-nation bloc.

The Israeli military says it has struck a Syrian army artillery position after a rocket from Syria hit the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights.

France's highest court will rule for the first time on the cases of 13 black and Arab men who claim they were victims of unjustified identity checks based on racial profiling.

A Chinese court has given the head of a chemical trading company a suspended death sentence over an explosion at a warehouse in Tianjin last year that killed 173 people, most of them firefighters and police officers.

The election of a U.S. president who has called global warming a "hoax" raised questions Wednesday about America's involvement in the Paris Agreement on climate change — and the future of the deal itself.

The British Transport Police says a tram has derailed in south London, injuring a number of people.

Responding to mounting criticism from the European Union, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged the EU to halt membership talks with Ankara.

Prosecutors say more than 1,000 police officers have made searches related to criminals gangs across Germany and have seized weapons, drugs and documents.

A Pakistani government official says National Geographic's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl" has been deported to Afghanistan.

The Israeli military says troops have shot and wounded a Palestinian who attacked an Israeli soldier with a screwdriver in the West Bank.

Indians awoke to a morning of confusion after the government withdrew the highest-denomination currency notes overnight to halt money laundering in a country where many in the poor and middle-class still make day-to-day transactions in cash.

A Pakistani government official says National Geographic's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl" has been deported to Afghanistan.

An ardent supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico won the governor's race on the island Tuesday, after campaigning on a pledge to turn the economically troubled U.S. territory into the 51st state during his term.

A 4-year-old girl was decapitated and her arms were severed last week in rural India as part of a black magic ritual aimed at finding a lost cell phone.

Iranian media says authorities have blinded a man to punish him for throwing chemicals in the face of a four-year-old girl in a 2009 assault that destroyed her vision.

Taxi drivers from around Brazil staged a protest in the capital Tuesday against the presence of Uber, demanding that it be prohibited.