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A Lithuanian court has called former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to testify in a mass trial related to the 1991 crackdown on the country's independence movement.

Rights activists in Jordan have called for stiffer punishment for family violence, after four women and a man were killed in so-called honor crimes in a week.

Police say at least nine people have been killed at a Brazilian penitentiary in a clash between rival gangs of inmates in the northern state of Roraima.

A Toronto court will hear arguments on an attempt to bar the Cleveland Indians from using their team name and logo in Ontario.

Police say at least nine people have been killed at a Brazilian penitentiary in a clash between rival gangs of inmates in the northern state of Roraima.

The German government is appealing to rival retailers to reach an agreement that would prevent job losses at a supermarket chain that faces being broken up.

Talks to convince a small Belgian region to back a wide-ranging trade deal between the 28-nation European Union and Canada could spill over in this week's EU summit of leaders.

Kuwait's Council of Ministers says the country will hold its parliamentary election on Nov. 26.

British police say a toddler who went missing on a Greek island 25 years ago is believed to have died as a result of the accident.

The walking dead are gnawing at Europe's weak economy — zombie banks and zombie companies.

Lithuania's health minister has died at age 34 just a week after being re-elected to the Baltic country's parliament.

A South African university says protesters demanding free education broke windows, forced open doors and threw human excrement in an effort to disrupt the resumption of classes.

A top court at the heart of Poland's political turmoil and Europe's concern about the nation's rule of law is marking its 30-year anniversary.

Prosecutors in Indonesia are seeking an eight-year prison term for a Chinese Uighur accused of involvement in plots to attack government officials and minority Shiite Muslims.

Pop-up clothes dyeing centers are a new phenomenon in the Thai capital as black apparel becomes too expensive for many following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

North Korea said Monday that it wants Britain to pull out of upcoming military exercises in South Korea, calling the drills a "hostile act." Britain has announced that it will send fighter jets and support planes to Asia, and that it will take part in exercises in South Korea together with South Korean and U.S. forces in early November.

Iran's deputy oil minister says a preliminary agreement by OPEC nations to limit output to between 32.5 million and 33 million barrels per day is a "small step, but in the right direction." Amir Hossein Zamaninia spoke Monday in Tehran, after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reached the deal in late September.

Niger's interior and public security minister says gunmen attacked a prison that holds jihadists and were repelled by security forces.

The Latest on the developments in Syria's civil war (all times local): 1:55 p.m.

Chemical company BASF says several people have been injured in an explosion at a facility in southwestern Germany.