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U.S. heavy equipment maker Caterpillar says it may close a Belgian manufacturing site and lay off about 2,000 workers, an announcement met with dismay and alarm by employees and the government.

Workers across India are on strike to protest economic reforms including a rise in the minimum wage for unskilled laborers.

Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon says support for Scottish independence is growing and that the time is right for a "new conversation" on independence because of Britain's decision to leave the European Union.

The father of a 3-year-old boy whose lifeless body photographed on a Turkish beach drew the world's attention to the plight of refugees says little has changed in the year since.

The Paris prosecutor has announced harsher prison sentences for returning French jihadis, saying the country faces an increased risk of attacks as the Islamic State group weakens in Iraq and Syria.

Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks on Friday, when gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian, and a suicide bomb attack on a district court in the town of Mardan killed 10 people and wounded 41 others.

The Daily Mail newspaper has retracted a story about Melania Trump after her lawyers filed a lawsuit in the United States accusing the newspaper and a Maryland blogger of publishing false statements about her alleged involvement with an escort agency.

The government of Uzbekistan said on Friday that ailing President Islam Karimov is in critical condition, following a week of speculation that the country's president of nearly 27 years could be at death's door.

A small plane has crashed in rainy weather in western Slovenia, killing the three people on board.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson says his country will continue to be involved in European issues even after it leaves the European Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a rare visit in Russia's Far East.

India and Egypt have agreed to boost cooperation in security and anti-terror efforts, with their leaders calling terrorism one of the gravest threats their countries face.

The Turkish president has accused the European Union of failing to deliver funds it promised as part of a deal to stop migrants crossing the Aegean Sea.

The Latest on Syria's conflict (all times local): 11:20 a.m.

Lawmakers in Spain's Parliament are expected to reject for a second time acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's bid to form a minority government, pushing the country closer to a third election in a year.

The head of the United Nations says the world body has failed to protect civilians in conflicts despite repeated commitments over the years and the killings at the end of Sri Lanka's civil war seven years ago prompted him to launch an initiative to focus early attention on human-rights violations.

Turkey's state-run news agency says one Turkish soldier was killed and six wounded in clashes with Kurdish militants in the volatile southeast.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve is to visit the French port city of Calais three days before residents, local businesses, dockers and truckers plan protests to demand that an overcrowded migrant camp be closed.

Turkey's president denies claims by U.S. officials that Syrian Kurdish rebels fighting Turkish forces in northern Syria have withdrawn east of the Euphrates River.

Authorities say a man suspected of shooting two police officers — seriously wounding one — and a bystander in a Copenhagen neighborhood known for its thriving hashish trade, has died.