Thailand's stagnating economy is unlikely to get much of a boost from a referendum Sunday on a new constitution proposed by the military government, which took power in a 2014 coup.
Japan has protested to China after six Chinese coast guard vessels approached disputed East China Sea islands accompanying a fleet of hundreds of Chinese fishing boats.
A fire swept through a Friday night birthday party at a bar in the Normandy city of Rouen, killing at least 13 people and injuring six others, French authorities said.
Tropical Storm Earl made landfall on the coast of Mexico's Veracruz state late Friday night after gaining strength as it passed over the Gulf of Mexico.
A 95-year-old Catholic priest admitted to sexually abusing boys decades ago on Guam, and said he confessed his sins to other priests on the island at the time but none told him to specifically stop.
An Argentine judge has lifted an arrest warrant for the 87-year-old president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group in a highly politicized embezzlement case.
Colombia's government and the country's biggest rebel movement have agreed on procedures for implementing a cease-fire after a final peace accord is agreed on.
Morocco's state-run news agency is reporting that two buildings have collapsed in a working class neighborhood of Casablanca, killing at least one person and injuring 16.
British police have charged a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man with carrying out a stabbing rampage in London's Russell Square that killed an American woman.
Several thousand demonstrators have rallied in Cyprus' capital Nicosia to denounce the July 15 failed coup in Turkey and show support for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The long running civil war in Syria appears to be entering a new and even grimmer stage, with troops loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad intensifying a widespread offensive on the city of Aleppo and elsewhere, including, according to residents, renewed use of chlorine barrel bombs.
An African regional bloc says South Sudan's government has accepted the deployment of a regional force to the country, almost a month after fighting erupted between opposing army factions.
Central African Republic's justice minister says United Nations officials have detained the son of a former president and handed him over to the country's authorities.