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German lender Commerzbank says it expects to cut a net 7,300 full time jobs as part of a restructuring to concentrate on its core businesses.

The human rights group Amnesty International says it has gathered "horrific evidence" that the Sudanese military has used chemical weapons against civilians, including very young children, in one of the most remote corners of the Darfur region over the past eight months.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 12:40 p.m.

A top Russian diplomat says a United States' threat to halt cooperation with Russia in the Syria conflict constitutes an "emotional breakdown" and says Russia is willing to support a 48-hour cease-fire around Aleppo.

Officials say two lions have escaped from a zoo in eastern Germany.

The human rights group Amnesty International says it has gathered "horrific evidence" that the Sudanese military has used chemical weapons against civilians, including very young children, in one of the most remote corners of the Darfur region over the past eight months.

Aid workers are warning that tens of thousands of children in northeastern Nigeria will die in famine-like conditions created by Boko Haram's Islamic uprising if food doesn't reach them quickly.

Spain's leading opposition Socialist party is in the throes of a crisis after nearly half of its executive board resigned in a rebellion against leader Pedro Sanchez.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has signed a peace treaty with a notorious warlord, pledging to lobby the U.S. and the United Nations to remove him and his party from terrorist blacklists.

Turkey's national security council has recommended that a three-month state of emergency declared following the failed July 15 coup be extended.

At least 32 people were reported missing Thursday after rain-saturated hillsides collapsed onto villages in southeastern China following a typhoon.

Afghanistan's unity government is expected to remain in place despite the formal expiration on Thursday of the U.S.-brokered deal between two electoral rivals whose internal feuding has undermined efforts to battle the Taliban and stabilize the country.

The Latest on funeral preparations and a nation in mourning at the death of Israel's ninth President, Shimon Peres (all times local): 9:00 a.m.

The family of two American women was searching for answers Wednesday after the sisters were found dead at a tropical African island resort.

The Australian government says an Iranian national extradited from Indonesia is to appear in a Sydney court charged with people-smuggling offenses.

A senior police official says gunmen have kidnapped the executive director of Pakistan's main media house in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

A sign outside Sandra's cage explains that "orangutan" comes from the Malay expression for "person of the forest." But she remains in a concrete cell in a Buenos Aires zoo and may never see the rainforests of her ancestors.

A patient New Zealand Lotto player bagged a cool $1 million – all thanks to a pushy patron who decided to cut him in line.

Tropical Storm Matthew swirled westward into the open waters of the Caribbean early Thursday after hitting islands at the sea's southern entry with heavy wind and rain.

South Korea's military says a North Korean soldier has crossed the border between rivals to defect to the South.