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The leader of a delegation from the European Parliament is urging Sri Lanka to improve human rights conditions, including the replacement of its tough anti-terrorism law, if it wants to regain lucrative EU trade concessions which the island nation lost six years ago.

Albania's defense ministry has nominated a woman for promotion to the rank of general, which would be a first for the nation.

Egyptians this week have watched the Nile's water turn a murky brown-yellow color, the result of days of heavy rain in parts of the country and subsequent flooding that eroded the surface of lime hills and mountains and swept them into the waterway.

Donald Trump’s favorability rating is sky-high here, where citizens are paying surprisingly close attention to the U.S. election and see the developer and political novice as the clear choice for the White House.

A German police officer is being retried on allegations he killed and dismembered a man he met in an internet chat forum devoted to cannibalism.

Iran's parliament has approved President Hassan Rouhani 's three nominees for the posts of culture, education and sport ministers.

Jailed Russian opposition activist Ildar Dadin says he has been tortured by prison guards.

Germany's justice minister is proposing legislation which would dissolve child marriages, with limited exceptions in cases where spouses are at least 16.

All night long, a cold wind howled around the gothic castle that inspired the Dracula legend, as a Canadian brother and sister became the first people to pass the night there in 70 years.

Zimbabwe's president has formalized a law allowing the introduction of a new currency this month.

Russia's defense minister is accusing the Syrian rebels of massive shelling of residential areas in the city of Aleppo.

Hundreds of rescuers were struggling Tuesday to find 15 coal miners still trapped a day after a gas explosion killed 18 of their colleagues in western China.

Turkish state television says the nation's armed forces are deploying tanks and other military vehicles to the border with Iraq.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has sharply criticized South African President Jacob Zuma, saying "political meddling for private interests" during his tenure has weakened state institutions and poses a threat to the country's democracy.

German police say they have seized several firearms from a couple believed to belong to the so-called Reich Citizens' Movement, a loose grouping of anti-government extremists, after authorities revoked their weapons permits.

Fears are growing for the safety of North Korea’s first lady who has vanished from public view for the past seven months.

Moroccan prosecutors say 11 people are facing manslaughter charges after a fish vendor was crushed to death in a garbage truck in an incident that prompted nationwide protests.

The new leader of the Catholic Church in Guam will immediately assume all responsibilities in the archdiocese while its suspended archbishop faces a church trial for allegedly sexually abusing altar boys.

A brother of three American citizens slain after fighting in Serbia in 1999 has accused the Balkan country's leaders of refusing to bring the killers to justice despite repeated pledges to do so.

Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan has called off a mass protest aimed at shutting down the capital and forcing the resignation of the prime minister.