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Three African countries in the space of a week have announced they are withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, amid accusations that the tribunal is unfairly targeting Africa.

An Egyptian court has upheld life sentences against the top leader of the country's now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group and 36 others, including former ministers, in murder and violence charges, and upheld death sentences against 10 others tried in absentia.

South African police have used stun grenades to disperse student protesters outside parliament, where the finance minister was giving a budget speech.

Even as it provides support for Iraq's battle to retake Mosul, the US-led-coalition is laying the groundwork to push Islamic State militants out of the Syrian city of Raqqa, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday.

The Swiss government is exempting volunteer firefighters who are called to emergencies from a near-total ban on consuming alcohol before getting behind the wheel.

A federal judge in Mexico has ordered that a once-fugitive police chief be held on charges of aggravated kidnapping in the disappearance of 43 students.

Hungarian authorities say that a police officer was killed during an attempted home search in the village of Bony, near the western city of Gyor.

A German court has convicted of fraud a woman accused of posing as a cousin of a victim of last year's Germanwings crash and flying to France twice at parent company Lufthansa's expense.

A Pakistani investigator says the police have arrested National Geographic's famed green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' for having a fake Pakistani identity card.

Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of atrocities in recent days, officials said Wednesday.

Britain is expressing concern that its NATO ally Spain is considering refueling a fleet of Russian warships that could be used to ramp up air attacks in Syria.

The Latest on developments in the civil war in Syria (all times local): 2:30 p.m.

Russia's top security official is urging closer cooperation with Serbia as part of increased efforts by Moscow to boost its influence in the Balkan country that is seeking EU membership.

The European Parliament has asked French police to investigate an incident between two lawmakers of the U.K. Independence Party that landed one of them in the hospital earlier this month.

A new report finds that the global gender pay gap will not be closed for another 170 years if current trends continue.

Getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program has long been the holy grail of multilateral diplomacy with Pyongyang.

Nigerian militants say they have bombed an oil export pipeline operated by U.S.-based multinational Chevron, and are warning companies not to carry out repairs to sabotaged infrastructure that has reduced oil exports from this West African nation to a near 30-year low.

Spain is close to finally having a government following a 10-month political deadlock as Parliament prepares for an investiture debate that will likely elect conservative leader Mariano Rajoy to head of minority government this week.

A Swedish industry group says a court ruling that drones with cameras must have a license under the country's surveillance laws "is a huge blow" to recreational and commercial users.

Until last week, no country had withdrawn from the International Criminal Court.