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Indonesia's minister of environment and forestry has condemned attempts by a palm oil company to stop an investigation into forest fires by taking ministry investigators hostage.

Syrian state media is reporting that multiple bomb blasts have struck government and military targets around the country.

A new wave of young Hong Kong activists seeking to change the way the southern Chinese city is governed by Beijing emerged Monday as the big winners of legislative elections.

Danish police say they have no evidence that a gun attack in a Copenhagen suburb known for its hashish trade was ordered by the Islamic State group.

A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves: ___ EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest key developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region.

Israeli police say their forces have shot dead a Palestinian who tried to ram his car into them in east Jerusalem.

The Latest on the G-20 summit in China (all times local): 1 p.m.

North Korea on Monday fired three suspected medium-range Rodong missiles that traveled about 620 miles and landed near Japan in an apparent show of force timed to the G-20 economic summit in China, Seoul officials said.

Julie Clarke Neville says her Australian author and social commentator husband Richard Neville who was best known as founder of the 1960s counterculture magazine Oz has died.

Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels expelled the Islamic State group from the last strip of territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday, effectively sealing the extremists' self-styled caliphate off from the outside world, Turkey's prime minister and a Syrian opposition group reported.

South Korea says North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles off its east coast in a show of force timed to the G-20 economic summit in China.

South Korea's financial regulator says financially troubled Hanjin Shipping Co. is seeking stay orders in dozens of countries to help minimize disruptions caused by its slide into bankruptcy proceedings.

Sleepy Guyana has long been one of the hemisphere's poorest places, a sparsely populated nation on South America's northern shoulder that relies heavily on exports of sugar, rice and gold.

The giant panda, one of the symbols of China, is off the endangered list thanks to aggressive conservation efforts.

The light was fading over Vientiane on a cool December evening when a Jeep was stopped at a traffic light.

Police in Brazil's biggest city clashed with protesters who marched to reject the new president Sunday, five days after Dilma Rousseff was ousted as leader of South America's biggest nation.

A teenager who plotted to run over and behead a police officer as part of an Islamic State movement-inspired attack on an Australian Veterans' Day ceremony was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison.

The latest bomb attack by suspected Islamist militants in Davao City is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s biggest challenge since taking office in June, and his move to declare a nationwide “state of lawlessness” is rattling nerves.

A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a German state election Sunday in the region where Chancellor Angela Merkel has her political base, overtaking her conservatives to take second place amid discontent with her migrant policies, projections indicated.

A Ukrainian television station has been forced to broadcast from outside its own building after the building caught fire amid a protest.