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Belgian police launched several raids overnight in parts of Brussels as part of an anti-terror probe and have taken three people into custody.

Japan's embassy in China is urging its citizens to pay more attention to their safety while in the neighboring country as sensitive anniversaries and territorial tensions might exacerbate anti-Japanese sentiments.

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency says it has put the Identitarian Movement, a group that rails against "mass immigration" and calls for "an end to the Islamization of Europe," under observation.

A schoolgirl who left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria is feared to have been killed in an airstrike in the country.

China's auto sales growth accelerated in July, rising 26.3 percent over a year earlier, and General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. reported new demand records for the month.

A blast from a suspected grenade and gunshots rocked a Philippine jail, leaving 10 inmates dead, including two alleged Chinese drug criminals, officials said Friday.

A court has ordered the formal arrest and jailing of the former deputy governor of Romania's central bank on suspicion of illicitly receiving 1 million euros ($1.1 million) when he was parliament speaker.

A lawyer says one of three London schoolgirls who traveled to Islamic State-controlled area of Syria to become "jihadi brides" is believed to have been killed in an air strike.

Once bustling with hundreds of party supporters and supplicants from far-flung towns, the headquarters of India's Congress party wears a deserted air these days.

The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons -- a measure some are decrying as a discriminatory anti-Muslim move that only worsens religious tensions.

A tip from the FBI triggered what Canadian police on Thursday called a "race against time" as police scrambled to identify and locate a balaclava-wearing would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of committing a terror attack in Canada.

Thailand was hit by a rapid succession of explosions Thursday and Friday in five central and southern provinces.

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says a woman and her three children have been stopped in Lebanon from entering Syria to join the Islamic State group.

Japan is searching for eight Chinese crewmembers missing after their fishing boat collided with a cargo ship off disputed islands in the East China Sea.

Tourists huddled in their hotel rooms and ducked inside buildings after bombs, one after another, exploded in at least four areas of Thailand, including popular beach cities, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more.

The German economy, Europe's biggest, grew 0.4 percent in the second quarter — a slower pace than in the previous three-month period but better than economists had forecast.

Japan's Sharp Corp. says China has become the final government to approve the acquisition of the Japanese electronics maker by the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and the tie-up will go ahead soon.

A Chinese official has tried to reassure companies and investors the country's growth is stable despite unexpectedly weak data for July, saying the world's second-largest economy is "making steady progress." The spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday the weakness in factory output, imports and other activity in July was due largely to summer flooding and other one-time factors.

Coordinated explosions targeting some of Thailand's most popular resort cities and beach towns killed at least four people and wounded dozens more. Police said Friday that 10 foreigners were injured in the violence, some of the worst here since the military seized power in a coup two years ago.

Fidel Castro greeted his 80th birthday from his sickbed, gripping a newspaper to show he was alive two weeks after stepping down as president.