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Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger on charges of posting anti-state comments in the communist country's latest crackdown on dissent.

A U.S. organization that monitors militant activity online says the leader of the Islamic State group has released a new message encouraging his followers to keep up the fight for the IS-held city of Mosul in Iraq.

Lissette died under the care of the Chilean state, suffocating in her own vomit while a caretaker allegedly sat on her back while trying to contain the 11-year-old during what was described as "a crisis of aggressiveness." Her mother had sent her to a government shelter hoping authorities could protect her as she became increasingly violent and difficult to handle.

Thailand's top court has dismissed a criminal defamation case against British labor activist Andy Hall brought by a local fruit canning company and the attorney general.

The African Development Bank is loaning Nigeria $600 million to help offset a budget deficit of $7 billion, a statement said Wednesday.

A new guide to support teachers in Canada with LGBTQ discussions is being attacked for suggesting staging drag shows in school and addressing students as “comrade” instead of boys and girls.

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The number of reporters who were subject to police surveillance in Quebec is growing as various media outlets are reporting provincial police were keeping track of who their own journalists were speaking to.

Moscow authorities have sealed off the Russia office of human rights group Amnesty International, the group's director in Russia said Wednesday.

France's interior minister has ordered the closure of four mosques that allegedly espoused a 'radical ideology,' the latest such shutdowns among dozens since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks nearly a year ago.

German police and prosecutors say they have arrested a man in Berlin on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organization.

Eight people have been accused of rape, eight others accused of looting and one accused of injuring a victim during a July rampage that targeted Americans at a South Sudan hotel popular with foreigners, the government announced Wednesday. Most of the accused are from the military, it said.

England will face FIFA sanctions after insisting they will feature embroidered poppies honoring Britain's war dead on their soccer jerseys for a match against Scotland.

Hundreds of Brazilians dressed as zombies dragged their rotting limbs on Wednesday while groaning and playfully lurching at tourists along Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach.

Saudi Arabia has awarded eight scientists the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.

An organization seeking to support persecuted Christians in North Korea who live under the world's most oppressive regime has said that believers there are surprisingly not praying for their own freedom, but rather for their Western brothers and sisters who are tempted by money and material wealth.

The Newseum on Wednesday unveiled a special 24-foot-long banner displaying a large photo of Austin Tice, the American journalist whose whereabouts were still unknown more than four years after his kidnapping in Syria.

Amnesty International says three young men in Cameroon have been jailed for 10 years for sharing a text message that joked about the Boko Haram extremist group.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he'll consider continuing to acquire weapons and defense equipment from treaty ally the United States if the military recommends so, despite offers from China and Russia.

A Saudi newspaper is reporting that a prince has been flogged over an undisclosed crime, just weeks after another was executed for killing a man in a melee.