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The Latest on the fighting in Iraq (all times local): 1:45 p.m.

A judge in Northern Ireland has dismissed one of the legal challenges to Britain's decision to leave the European Union, or Brexit.

The past few years have been stormy for Iceland, a country threatened by volcanoes and brought low by bankers. Now, Icelanders are thinking of putting their trust in pirates.

In a story Oct. 23 about 83 missing Nigerian soldiers, The Associated Press erroneously quoted senior military officers.

A teacher was shot and killed as she arrived at school Friday morning in Thailand's deep south, the latest of thousands of people who have died in the region during an insurgency that began over a decade ago, police said.

A top Chinese anti-corruption official has rejected suggestions that the country's nearly 4-year-long campaign against graft is politically biased.

Turkey's military has fired 460 employees as part of an ongoing investigation into the movement allegedly responsible for the failed coup attempt on July 15.

After the Protestant Reformation five centuries ago, Sweden became a grim place for Roman Catholics: Those who rejected the new Lutheran faith were punished with deportation or death.

Israel's prime minister says a nuclear facility will be named after late former President Shimon Peres.

France is hosting an international summit of foreign ministers from countries near the western Mediterranean Sea that is expected to discuss the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and elsewhere, radicalization, as well as migration.

The U.S. military says Iraqi forces have retaken 40 villages from the Islamic State group near Mosul since a massive operation to drive the militants from the city began last week.

A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has moved to detain a blogger who was already under house arrest pending trial for playing "Pokemon Go" in a church.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 11:15 a.m.

Syrian rebel groups say they have launched a large-scale offensive to break the government's siege of eastern Aleppo, a contested city in the north of the country and the current focal point of the six-year war.

Swiss bank UBS says it's being investigated by Hong Kong regulators over its work on some initial public offerings on the southern Chinese financial center's stock market.

Several Austrian supermarkets are pulling some brands of bitter chocolate off their shelves after a consumer group found traces of mineral oil in samples.

A Pakistani prosecutor says National Geographic's famed green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' has made her first appearance before a court, insisting she did not fraudulently obtain Pakistani nationality.

Firebrand Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says he will not attend court next week to face hate speech charges, calling the case against him "a political trial." Prosecutors have charged Wilders, leader of the populist Dutch Freedom Party, with insulting a group based on their race and inciting hatred and discrimination.

Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself deeper into debt.

Italian oil and gas giant Eni says it narrowed third-quarter losses but continued to be stung by the downturn in gas and oil prices.