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A man has briefly held a group of people hostage in a supermarket in a Brussels suburb before surrendering to police.

This farming village east of Mosul was turned into a bunker during more than two years of Islamic State rule: A network of tunnels and cramped living quarters betrays an extremist group increasingly forced to operate underground by a punishing air campaign and mounting territorial losses.

A theater in one of Russia's largest cities has cancelled a planned performance of the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" following protests by an organization of conservative Orthodox Christians.

The U.N.'s special representative on torture expects he will end his six-year term without visiting the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

On the eerily quiet streets of Mosul, fighters from the Islamic State group are killing suspected spies, blocking roads and planting bombs ahead of a showdown with Iraqi forces.

An opposition leader in Congo says government and other negotiators have signed an agreement calling for the next presidential vote to be held in April 2018 — more than a year after President Joseph Kabila's mandate expires.

Somali police say at least seven are dead after hours of clashes as Somali and African Union troops pushed back al-Shabab extremists from a town near Mogadishu.

It was anything but a show of unity in Dresden on Oct. 3, the Annual Day of German Unity, which marked the 26th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany.

The pace of operations slowed on Tuesday as Iraqi forces began pushing toward larger villages and encountering civilian populations on the second day of a massive operation to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group.

Hungary's far-right Jobbik party said Tuesday it would only support the government's constitutional amendment opposing the mass settlement of migrants if it also bans a disputed arrangement offering residency permits to foreigners buying a special state bond for 300,000 euros ($330,000).

The president of Burundi has signed legislation to make Burundi the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.

The wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a television interview broadcast Tuesday that she has declined offers to leave her country earlier in the now six-year-long war in return for safety and financial security for her and her children.

School always provided a sense of security for 12-year-old Love Manie Simeus.

The Latest on Europe's response to massive influx of asylum-seekers and migrants (all times local): 6:40 p.m.

France's defense minister says the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul could last months but is "essential" to preventing new Islamic State attacks.

German police say a man has died and a woman was seriously wounded in a shooting at a hair salon in the western town of Dueren.

Scientists say they've unlocked the evolutionary origins of the European bison — and solved a riddle posed by Stone Age cave art in the process.

Mexican authorities say six people have been found alive with their hands cut off in the western state of Jalisco, along with another person who was killed.

Kenya's president says he is not shielding corruption suspects and is blaming officials for not dealing with malfeasance in his administration.

A Hamas-run court in Gaza has sentenced a man to death for allegedly collaborating with Israel.