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Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that governing the church wasn't his strong suit but says he doesn't see his papacy as a failure and that he succeeded at least in breaking up the Vatican's so-called "gay lobby." In a new, book-length interview, excerpts of which were published Thursday in Corriere della Sera, Benedict also said he was shocked, and initially uncertain, about the election of Pope Francis.

Air China says it has removed copies of its inflight magazine containing an article that told visitors to take precautions when visiting areas of London with large ethnic-minority populations.

European Union leader Donald Tusk is urging Britain to hurry up and get on with finalizing its divorce from the bloc.

A Sri Lankan court has given permission to police to exhume the remains of a newspaper editor killed seven years ago for a fresh investigation.

German port authorities say they've seized 2 million euros ($2.3 million) in cocaine packed among industrial machinery being shipped from Brazil.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency says seven Chinese citizens have been arrested in a raid on a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory inside a pig farm north of Manila.

A European Union judge says an EU agreement to exchange air passenger information with Canada to combat terrorism should be revised because parts of it would infringe on people's rights.

British Defense Minister Michael Fallon says sexual exploitation by U.N.

The prime minister of Armenia says he is resigning in order to give way to a coalition government.

The European Central Bank is weighing whether to increase its efforts to boost stubbornly low inflation in the 19-country eurozone at Thursday's meeting of its governing council.

China trade showed unexpected strength in August in a positive sign for global economic growth.

A defense lawyer says a Pakistani court has postponed the hearing of the ex-husband and the father of a British woman who was murdered while on a family visit to Pakistan.

A helicopter operated by a rescue service has crashed in central Slovakia, killing all four people on board.

The gray-bearded officer's summary of the war in eastern Ukraine is terse with weariness.

Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for six generals and scores of other military personnel as part of an ongoing investigation into the July 15 failed coup.

An Afghan official says the Taliban have pushed into the capital of southern Uruzgan province, triggering fierce clashes and sending all government officials fleeing from the city.

The Israeli military says its aircraft struck targets in Syria after a projectile hit the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights.

The only surviving suspect in last November's attacks on Paris is set to face an anti-terrorism judge for interrogation, after refusing past questioning in frustration at 24-hour video surveillance of his prison cell.

China is shunning a security dialogue in Seoul amid an ongoing row over South Korea's decision to deploy a powerful U.S. missile defense system.

Police in the Maldives have raided the office of one of the country's leading news websites shortly after a television documentary was broadcast that accused the country's president of corruption, money laundering and misrule.