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Uganda and Congo have agreed on a joint intelligence security plan to combat rebel groups active along the countries' border.

Abubakar Shekau says he still leads Boko Haram, exposing the biggest rift yet among Nigeria's Islamic insurgents and possibly paving the way for a break from the Islamic State group.

Police in Bangladesh say they have arrested a British man and a University of Toronto student for their alleged involvement in last month's deadly attack on a restaurant by radical Islamists.

Moldova's defense ministry says that recent military exercises involving Russian and separatist troops on Moldovan territory are illegal.

Pope Francis called on followers to offer forgiveness to those who wrong them during a pilgrimage to his namesake's hometown marking the 800th anniversary of the Feast of Pardon initiated by St. Francis.

A court in Turkey issued a formal warrant Thursday for the arrest of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who the government accuses of being behind the failed July 15 coup that left more than 270 people dead.

Pakistan's interior minister has chastised arch-rival India over violence in the contested region of Kashmir.

Lawmakers in Greece have approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens — a proposal that triggered dissent within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how manage the migrant crisis.

Taliban militants in western Afghanistan Thursday attacked a convoy carrying foreign tourists, including Americans, leaving at least six people injured, officials in the region told several news agencies.

One of Germany's governing parties is pressing a lawmaker to quit Parliament after it emerged that she lied about her academic qualifications.

Aid agencies say they have delivered a month's worth of food and supplies to more than 75,000 Syrians stuck on Jordan's sealed border, using cranes to lift bags from the Jordanian side over an earthen barrier along the frontier.

Women have been banned from a British swimming pool so that Muslim men can have it to themselves for a weekly men-only session.

Nigeria's government has resumed paying stipends to former militants even as security forces' air and ground assaults have reportedly killed scores of fighters disrupting petroleum production in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Italy's justice minister says that top investigators are looking into whether the Islamic State group is playing a role in managing the flow of migrants from Libya.

A German federal court has ruled that a person with a genetic abnormality who identifies as neither woman nor man can't be entered in the country's birth register under a label such as "inter" or "diverse." The plaintiff was identified by advocacy group Dritte Option only as Vanja — born in 1989 and registered as a girl.

The United Nations Children's Fund said Wednesday it is "extremely" concerned for the safety and wellbeing of children caught up in the violence engulfing the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, including the rebel-held eastern neighborhoods under government siege.

A Turkish gay rights organization says a gay Syrian refugee has been found decapitated in Istanbul.

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Cyprus' justice minister says authorities have arrested a 28-year-old Austrian man on suspicion of having links to terrorist organizations.

Montenegro's police have arrested a Montenegrin suspected of killing at least six ethnic Albanians, including two women, in a Kosovo village in 1999.