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South Africa said Friday it will soon submit a bill in parliament to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, raising concerns of a possible African exodus from a human rights tribunal accused by some African leaders of unfairly targeting their continent.

The Vatican and the prestigious Sunni Muslim center of learning, Al-Azhar, are expected to formally reopen talks next year after a five-year lull.

Poland's defense minister says he believes Egypt has sold two French-made Mistral warships to Russia for the symbolic price of $1.

A senior NATO officer says the addition of cyber warfare to traditional threats means the military alliance faces a 360-degree threat.

The United Nations human rights office says Congo's security forces killed at least 48 people during anti-government opposition protests last month, using excessive force that also injured at least 140 people.

Now this is an open house: The Vatican is opening the private apartment at the papal summer retreat to the public, giving visitors a rare look at the bed where Popes Pius XII and Paul VI died and where John Paul II recovered from the 1981 assassination attempt.

Indian banks are scrambling to contain the damage after more than 3.2 million debit cards may have been hacked.

German police say a man has been attacked by a person in a clown costume wielding a baseball bat, while a woman was accosted separately by a man in a clown mask with a chain saw.

The Latest on Europe's response to the influx of asylum seekers and migrants (all times local): 12:50 p.m.

Uganda says it remains "undecided" about whether to leave the International Criminal Court after two African states this week decided to pull out.

Spain's Socialist party is preparing for a crucial weekend meeting that could help end the country's near 10-month political impasse by allowing the rival conservative Popular Party to form a minority government.

German lawmakers have approved a bill that allows the country's foreign intelligence agency to spy on European Union institutions and fellow EU member states.

Bailout inspectors have returned to Athens for talks on more proposed austerity measures and reforms, while the country's largest labor union made an international complaint against Greece, describing changes in the job market as a violation of workers' human rights.

South Africa will soon submit a bill in parliament to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, its justice minister said Friday, making the country the second this week, after Burundi, to move to leave the tribunal that pursues the world's worst atrocities.

A Norwegian court says an Iraqi-born cleric can be extradited to Italy, which suspects him of enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria.

The Latest on developments in Syria where a Russia-announced pause in the fighting is underway to allow civilians, rebels to leave besieged areas of Aleppo (all times local): 11:45 a.m.

Police say a train has hit a truck at a road crossing in southwestern Germany, killing the truck driver.

People across Britain fell silent to mark 50 years since a mountain of coal sludge collapsed onto a Welsh village, killing more than 140 people in one of the country's worst mining disasters.

German lawmakers have called for a crackdown on anti-government extremists after a police officer was killed by an adherent of the so-called Reich Citizens Movement.

The Syrian government has opened a corridor for rebels and civilians who want to leave the besieged eastern neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo.