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Syria's military command said it would scale back its bombardment of the contested city of Aleppo on Wednesday to allow civilians to evacuate besieged rebel-held neighborhoods.

Michal Kovac, who served as the first president of Slovakia after it became an independent state in 1993, has died.

Four European countries were forced to scramble fighter jets after two Russian Blackjack bombers blasted across the continent, it has been revealed.

A 43-year-old man who lived in isolation at his parents' home in Bavaria for three decades has been taken to a psychiatric hospital and German police are investigating whether his parents did anything wrong.

An army spokesman in Mali says three soldiers have been killed and one injured when their vehicle hit a land mine.

Israel carried out airstrikes on Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory landed in a street in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Wednesday, the Israeli military said.

United Nations peacekeepers abandoned their posts when fighting erupted in South Sudan's capital in July and then used tear gas on frightened civilians who sought shelter at the center of the U.N.

Turkey and Iraq summoned each other's ambassadors on Wednesday to protest statements by one country's prime minister and the other's parliament, a move reflecting growing tensions between the two neighbors, both fighting the Islamic State group.

An Iraqi tribal leader says an airstrike has killed 19 pro-government tribal Sunni fighters south of the town of Mosul, which is held by the Islamic State group.

Four days of strikes called by Greek air traffic controllers next week are expected to disrupt flights across and into the country.

Soon after he was elected leader of Portugal's center-left Socialist Party in 1992, Antonio Guterres added a red rose motif to the clenched, raised fist which was the party's traditional symbol.

The European Union Force deployed in Bosnia, NATO troops from neighboring Kosovo and soldiers of the Bosnian Army have concluded their days-long exercise designed to show how effectively they can act if needed.

A senior government official says all members of Kenya's electoral commission have resigned ahead of next year's presidential election, after waves of opposition protests called for them to go.

A senior Pakistani police official says officers have seized a large cache of assault rifles, grenades, guns and bomb-making material from a house in the southern port city of Karachi.

Pope Francis is pushing through with an unusually high-powered month of outreach to other Christians, celebrating 50 years of Catholic dialogue with the Anglican Church in between important visits to Orthodox and Lutheran leaders.

A German lawyer says he will challenge a decision by German prosecutors to drop an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Israeli navy says it has intercepted a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists trying to break Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and is now escorting it ashore.

Four young men found slain on a roadside have been identified as members of Catholic evangelism group, authorities in western Mexico said.

The Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force in 30 days, after the number of countries ratifying the accord surpassed a key threshold.

The Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday that Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next secretary-general of the United Nations.