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Members of Austria's elite Cobra police commando unit have been assigned to protect the left-leaning candidate for Austria's presidency in response to death threats from right-wing extremists.

Video and photographs show a Catholic priest, his white robe streaked with blood, after he was hit in the face by a rubber bullet at the gates of a church during fighting between South African police and student protesters this week.

Poland's deputy defense minister has described the French as "people who learned to eat with a fork from us a few centuries ago" but denies that the two countries are embroiled in a diplomatic war over a failed defense deal.

Swiss federal prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings against Falcon Private Bank Ltd. on suspicion it failed to prevent alleged money laundering linked to the Malaysian state fund 1MDB.

A witness says as many as 10 people have been killed when security forces clashed with Shiite Muslims attending a religious ceremony in northern Nigeria.

Hundreds of men, boys, and several women, are commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of Prophet's Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in a Shiite tradition in Lebanon's south by lashing their foreheads and backs in a blood-soaked, open air parade.

Lawmakers in Burundi have overwhelmingly voted in support of a plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.

The Indian army says a three-day standoff between its soldiers and suspected rebels in Indian-controlled Kashmir has ended with the killing of two militants.

Lawyers for the only surviving suspect in last November's attack in Paris say they will no longer defend him because he refuses to speak.

China is protesting the attendance of the U.N.

France's interior minister says he will lodge a criminal complaint about anti-police graffiti found inside the buildings of a famed Parisian university.

A spokesman says South Sudan's exiled rebel leader Riek Machar is traveling to South Africa but will not seek political asylum there.

The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 1:20 p.m.

British lawmakers are pressuring the government to give them a say on negotiating terms for the U.K.'s exit from the European Union.

A Rwandan official says an academic extradited from the United States last month has been charged with multiple offenses related to his alleged role in the 1994 genocide.

Ivory Coast's parliament has approved changes to the constitution that ease a presidential eligibility requirement at the center of a political crisis that turned deadly.

Germany's interior minister says some 213,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in the country this year, keeping it on course for a far lower total in 2016 than last year's 890,000.

A local official says at least seven people have been killed in an explosion targeting a taxi in northeastern Nigeria's largest city.

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

Egypt says it will host Russian troops this month for joint military exercises at the coastal city of El-Alamein, the latest step in the two countries' rapprochement.