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Spanish authorities say a passenger train has derailed in the northwestern Galicia region, killing two people and injuring several others.

Britain's former financial services watchdog is suing MasterCard for 14 billion pounds ($18.6 billion), alleging the firm slapped excessive charges on millions of transactions.

Masked men armed with guns, knives and stun grenades have attacked a camp of volunteer firefighters who came to southern Russia to help to put out forest fires.

Cypriot officials are baffled by reports that a meteor streaking across the nighttime sky may have exploded overhead with a thunderous bang that some said made the ground shake.

German exports took a nose dive in July, falling 2.6 percent over the previous month in another sign of weakness from Europe's largest economy.

A Cambodian opposition leader was sentence to five months in jail Friday in the latest faceoff between the government and opposition as political tensions around challenges to Prime Minister Hun Sen's long-standing autocratic rule show no signs of easing.

The Greek government is adamantly opposing the revival of a European Union rule that would allow the forcible return to its territory of asylum-seekers who entered the bloc via Greece — a path followed by more than a million people in the past two years.

Senior U.S. officials played down hopes Friday of an imminent cease-fire agreement for Syria as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva for a fourth set of negotiations with his Russian counterpart in the last two weeks.

Dozens of tourists who were trapped in cable cars dangling above the Alps overnight, including a 10-year-old child, have all been safely rescued.

A bus crashed off a bridge in eastern India on Friday, killing at least 21 people and injuring another 30.

A Pakistani government statement says Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has extended the stay for Afghan refugees, pushing back a previously announced deadline by three months.

A Kabul defense official says Afghan forces have retaken most of a southern provincial capital that was nearly overrun by the Taliban the day before.

An upstart German nationalist party has gone from ousting its leader amid bitter infighting just over a year ago to reveling in newfound success.

Republican activists are trying to "make America great again" — from inside a Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank.

Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last year's hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker in the scorching heat.

EU finance ministers are preparing to meet on Greece amid signs that country may fall short of economic commitments it needs to meet for its next tranche of aid under a multi-billion euro bailout plan.

The Latest on North Korea's nuclear test (all times local): 1:50 p.m.

Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death on Sept. 9, 1976.

North Korea on Friday conducted its fifth nuclear test, producing its biggest-ever explosive yield, South Korean officials said, with the South's president calling the atomic detonation an act of "fanatic recklessness." The North's test, which comes eight months after its previous such detonation, defies both tough international sanctions and long-standing diplomatic pressure to curb its nuclear ambitions.

North Korea confirmed that it had conducted a "nuclear warhead explosion" test Friday, defying international sanctions and increasing diplomatic pressure to curb its nuclear ambitions.