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Forty-two world leaders kick off the second day of the 71st United Nations General Assembly.

Iraqi state TV says the finance minister has been dismissed following a no-confidence vote from parliament over alleged corruption and mismanagement.

A general assembly of Banco Portugues do Investimento has approved changes to shareholder voting rights that clear the path for a 1.62 billion euro ($1.8 billion) takeover by Spain's Caixabank.

The United Nations says some people fleeing South Sudan into Uganda are forced to pay bribes at checkpoints run by South Sudan's government and armed groups.

The new caretaker of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says his main task will be to promote dialogue among Christians in the Holy Land — and between Christians and other religious groups.

Armenia has proudly showed off state-of-the-art Russian ballistic missiles at a military parade marking its independence day.

The Saudi Civil Defense says a citizen has been wounded by a projectile fired from Yemen into the southern border region of Najran.

A new Amnesty International report says an elite Nigerian police squad set up to combat violent crime is torturing detainees to extract lucrative bribes and confessions.

An attacker armed with a knife tried to enter the Israeli Embassy in Turkey on Wednesday before being shot and slightly wounded by Turkish security officials, Turkish and Israeli officials said.

Hungarian prison inmates have ramped up their production of razor wire, working around the clock as Hungary prepares to build a second fence on the border with Serbia to keep out refugees and other migrants.

The Latest on Syria's conflict (all times local): 2:20 p.m.

A European law and human rights commission is criticizing proposed constitutional changes in Azerbaijan that would extend the president's term.

Thai officials have ended the search for bodies from a weekend boat accident after recovering 28 bodies and accounting for all the people listed as missing.

The U.K. may be sailing into an uncertain future outside the European Union, but if campaigners have their way, Britannia will rule the waves again.

The Indian army says its soldiers are searching areas near the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan where two gunbattles with suspected rebels raged for half a day.

A German court says it has added staff and storage space to handle the flood of investor lawsuits against Volkswagen.

Documents retrieved from Sirte, the Islamic State group's last bastion in Libya, record the variety of dowries offered by militant grooms to their future wives, including an explosive belt, a Kalashnikov and the offer to memorize parts of the Quran.

Israel's Defense Ministry says its forces shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in the leg after she refused to stop at a West Bank crossing.

Japan's central bank chose to keep its policies for sustaining a stronger economy mostly unchanged at a policy meeting that ended Wednesday.

Air China has started regular flights between Beijing and Warsaw, the first ever direct connection to Poland by any Asian airline.