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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stayed away Monday from a Tokyo shrine that honors convicted war criminals among the nation's war dead, a bid to avoid controversy with neighboring countries on the 71st anniversary of the end of World War II.

A South African woman who kidnapped a newborn nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raised the girl as her own was sentenced Monday to 10 years in jail.

Austrian police say they've arrested nine Iraqi men on suspicion of rape for an attack on a German tourist in Vienna on New Year's Day.

Searchers in Thailand found the wreckage of a missing army helicopter on Monday along with the bodies of the five people on board, officials said.

Russia's military says it has started exercises in the eastern Mediterranean near Syria to test the navy's ability to respond to "crisis situations of a terrorist nature." The Defense Ministry statement says that in the exercises that began Monday a naval strike force will fire artillery and missiles in combat-like conditions.

A prosecutor has slapped a gag order on the case of a Jordanian writer who was arrested after posting a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam.

American tanks and soldiers have taken part in a yearly military parade in Warsaw, a symbolic show of increased U.S. military involvement in a region shaken by a more assertive Russia.

Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb at a police station in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing two police officers and a young child, officials said.

It happens with horrifying frequency in southern Thailand, a country much of the world associates with pristine beaches and alluring, sapphire blue seas: a bomb goes off.

Peruvian authorities say a magnitude 5.4 earthquake has killed four people and injured 30 in a remote Andean part of the country.

The Republican Party has launched its first ever election campaign in Israel, trying to convince skeptical American-Israeli dual citizens to cast their votes for Donald Trump.

Pope Francis is decrying what he calls the "shameful silence" about long-running conflicts in Africa and elsewhere.

The mayor of a Corsican town has banned full-body swimsuits known as "burkinis" after a clash between local residents and Muslim bathers of North African origin.

Two suspects are on the run after an axe and gun attack in the German city of Cologne left one person injured, reports say.

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.

The remains of 33 Turkish Cypriot villagers who were shot and killed after being taken off two buses during Turkey's 1974 invasion of ethnically divided Cyprus have been laid to rest after they were discovered down a mineshaft more than four decades later.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman is calling on Russia to exert its "great influence on the Syrian president" to alleviate suffering in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he and his German counterpart have discussed resuming international talks on resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine in light of escalating tensions.

The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.

A doctor monitoring the plight of 75,000 Syrians stranded on the sealed border with Jordan says she's been told infectious diseases are spreading among them.