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Uniformed paramedics marched and ambulance lights flashed during a South African protest against attacks on emergency responders, who are sometimes targeted by criminals when they rush to treat patients in poor communities.

With strikes and protests, French unions are staging a last-ditch bid to dismantle a labor law that weakens their powers and worker protections.

Police say some 100 officers had to get between far-right Germans and asylum-seekers who were fighting in the eastern German town of Bautzen.

One person is dead in Taiwan after a typhoon roiled the island and parts of southeastern China, in what Chinese and Taiwanese weather authorities labeled the strongest storm so far this year.

The British government has approved construction of the country's first new nuclear power plant in decades, to be built with Chinese investment.

Separatist rebels and government troops are both reporting violations of a cease-fire that was supposed to begin in eastern Ukraine at midnight on Wednesday.

The World Bank says less than half the money pledged by donors to rebuild the Gaza Strip after the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel has been disbursed.

The Israeli military says it has struck three Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel.

Police on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali said Thursday a German woman was killed and about 20 other people injured in an explosion on a speed boat ferrying them to neighboring Lombok.

At least six passengers were killed and more than 100 others were hurt Thursday when a passenger train collided with a freight train near the central Pakistan city of Multan, rescuers and a railway officials said.

China has detained journalists in the fishing village where it suppressed new protests five years after the village received international attention for demonstrations against land seizures.

Police on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali say a German woman was killed and about 20 other people injured in an explosion on a speed boat ferrying them to neighboring Lombok.

Every year Raju Laljibhai Dipikar goes out with his wife and three daughters and chooses an elaborate statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god so dear to devout Hindus.

Food, water and shelter are obvious basic needs for people fleeing war.

A Syrian freed from Guantanamo nearly two years ago was in a coma early Thursday after a hunger strike to dramatize his unhappiness about being resettled in Uruguay and his demand to be moved to another country.

A former Guantanamo prisoner on a hunger strike slipped into a coma Wednesday, said a doctor in Uruguay, where the ex-detainee was taken in as a refugee nearly two years ago but has been demanding to move elsewhere to reunite with his family.

Rescue and railway officials say at least six passengers have been killed in train accident near the Pakistan city of Multan.

A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country's Senate that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead.

The head of the criminal investigation agency for the Attorney General's Office, whose dismissal had been demanded by the families of 43 college students who disappeared two years ago, resigned Wednesday.

Environmentalists are warning that one of Europe's most celebrated conservation wetlands could dry out completely, endangering rare wildlife and thousands of jobs.