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After four years of grueling bombardment and crippling siege, the remaining residents and rebels of a Damascus suburb agreed to surrender and evacuate under the terms of an agreement reached Thursday, Syrian government and opposition activists said.

She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania that she was alive.

A Somali police officer says a car bomber has prematurely detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the new Turkish embassy compound in the capital, Mogadishu.

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Ryan Lochte will be summoned to give testimony in front of Brazil's Justice Department in Rio de Janeiro over his since-recanted claim he and other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint, a police official told Fox News on Thursday.

The ashes of Polish fighter ace Capt. Kazimierz Sporny, who is credited with downing at least five enemy planes in the World War II Battle of Britain, have been brought from London to western Poland for a military burial.

A dramatic 10-second video released this week by aid worker Kayla Mueller's family showed the woman pleading for help shortly after Islamic State fighters kidnapped her in Syria in 2013.

Burundi police say they have detained eight people accused of being members of a WhatsApp group for defaming the government and insulting public institutions.

The dodo bird is extinct — but one collector can now have their own dodo skeleton.

Three people were killed Thursday after they were apparently shot with a crossbow in Toronto's east end.

A court in Norway has detained a 32-year-old Norwegian man, suspected of joining the militant Islamic State group in Syria two years ago.

Critics of local French bans on full-body burqini swimsuits have filed legal challenges, forcing the country's highest administrative authority to investigate Thursday whether such bans are actually legal, as photos and video surface showing police forcing Muslim women to disrobe.

Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes in Italy Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as the death toll reached 250 and officials anguished over how to secure their ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain.

Brazil's Senate on Thursday began a trial to decide whether to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office.

Egyptian security officials say a police driver kidnapped this week has been publicly shot dead in Sinai by suspected militants from the local Islamic State affiliate.

U.N.

United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world for years poured untreated or untested sewage into public waters or agricultural lands in some of the most ravaged countries they protect, failed to dispose safely of wastewater, sewage and garbage, and only sporadically kept the environmental safety and sanitation records that missions are supposed to report regularly for themselves and for U.N. headquarters.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has captured images of a bright burst of light on the comet it is orbiting, apparently caused by a landslide.

Somalia's central bank says a bank teller is on the run after stealing $530,000 in a month-long scam that replaced real cash with fake bills.

Portugal's foreign ministry has asked Baghdad to lift the diplomatic immunity of the Iraqi ambassador's teenage sons who are suspected of attempted homicide.