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A United Nations panel says Argentina has arbitrarily detained activist Milagro Sala and is asking the government for her immediate release.

Nearly a year after the curious death of a former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Washington hotel room, authorities announced Friday that he died accidentally from numerous bodily injuries after "days of excessive consumption of alcohol."

A United Nations expert says he will examine the Israeli government's treatment of human rights groups in the region in his next report.

How many sleepless nights did the young man who would become one of soccer's greatest players spend gazing up at the ceiling, imagining dizzying dribbles, spectacular goals and hoisting the World Cup above his head? That is the question visitors often ask when they see the small wooden bed in the former house of Diego Maradona, which was recently turned into a museum in Argentina's capital.

An overpass north of Milan has collapsed under the weight of a truck carrying an oversized load just hours after highway authorities say they requested the road's immediate closure.

President Juan Manuel Santos told Colombians Friday that "everything is on the table" in efforts to revive a peace pact that voters narrowly defeated on Oct. 2 and said a revised accord could be reached "in a matter of days." The chief negotiator for the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Timoleon Jimenez, expressed hope Santos was right.

Barring any surprises, a former Lebanese general and a strong ally of the militant Hezbollah group is poised to be elected Lebanon's president next week, formally ending a two-year vacuum in the country's top post and a political crisis that has paralyzed the troubled Mideast nation.

Russia has been voted off the United Nations Human Rights Council in a stunning rebuke to the country which is increasingly being accused of war crimes over its actions in Syria.

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Venezuela is in the midst of an escalating political confrontation as the deeply unpopular socialist administration struggles to stay in power and a newly energized opposition tries to bring about change this year.

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A letter obtained by The Associated Press shows Malta gave diplomatic clearance to a Russian tanker a week before the foreign minister said the country would not refuel Russian ships.

The destruction of a sprawling shanty town near the English Channel has caused the number of migrants in Paris to skyrocket this week, French officials say.

German police say they're investigating several people who ignored an elderly man who had collapsed in a bank branch, and eventually died, for failing to help him.

Turkey's state-run news agency says the pro-Kurdish mayor of the southeastern city of Siirt has been sentenced to one year of prison on charges of "disseminating terrorist propaganda." Anadolu Agency says Tuncer Bakirhan was not present at the hearing Friday in which he was sentenced.

Many people in the southwestern peninsula of Haiti are in dire need of safe drinking water because Hurricane Matthew, which roared through on Oct. 4, ruptured water pipes and contaminated many wells with sewage from latrines or ocean storm surge.

The Islamic State group is using tens of thousands of people as "human shields" in and around Mosul while the Iraqi forces are waging a large-scale offensive aimed at retaking the country's second-largest city, the U.N.

Dozens of people who had remained near what was left of a closed migrant camp in northern France during a massive evacuation operation have been transferred to reception centers across the country.

The United Nations is paying tribute to the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej with a ceremony in the General Assembly Hall.

The European Union's foreign policy chief says a deal reunifying ethnically divided Cyprus would be a "game changer" for the bloc and the Middle East.