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South Africans are voting in municipal elections in which the ruling African National Congress seeks to retain control of key metropolitan areas despite a vigorous challenge from opposition parties.

Fresh protests have flared in Indian-controlled Kashmir following the overnight killings of two civilians by government forces amid a nearly monthlong security lockdown and protest strikes.

Hundreds of Pakistanis have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against the imminent visit of India's interior minister, Rajnath Singh.

Rights groups are criticizing the detention of an Omani journalist who is apparently held over an article he wrote regarding improper interference in a court case.

London's police force is putting more armed officers on the streets — a visible response to attacks by Islamic State-inspired groups in Europe.

Human rights groups have accused Australia of deliberately ignoring the alleged abuse of asylum seekers being held at a remote Pacific island detention facility in a bid to deter future refugees from trying to reach the country by boat.

Officials say a truck transporting Cambodian garment workers to their factory has crashed, injuring 33 people.

A woman with revisionist views of World War II history has been named Japan's defense minister in a Cabinet reshuffle.

Two or three vehicles carrying dozens of people plunged into a flooded river after a portion of an old bridge collapsed on the Mumbai-Goa highway in western India, police said Wednesday.

A Chinese legal rights activist was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison on subversion charges Wednesday, in the second in a series of cases underscoring the ruling Communist Party's determination to rein in government critics.

Trials started this week of Chinese lawyers and legal rights activists who were detained in July last year and charged with subversion for their attempts to bring attention to abuses and demand government accountability.

Schools in the Middle East are facing major budget shortfalls ahead of the new academic year, leaving some 1 million Syrian refugee children out of school, according to a report published by Their World, an international children's charity.

Eruptions at three volcanoes in Indonesia have darkened skies in parts of the archipelago and disrupted some flights.

Philippine officials say police commandos have clashed with armed bodyguards of a town mayor linked to illegal drugs, killing six in a continuing crackdown that has left more than 400 suspected drug criminals dead.

HSBC says its first-half profit declined 29 percent from a year earlier as uncertainty about China's economic outlook and Britain's relationship with the European Union fueled global market volatility.

Eruptions at three volcanoes in Indonesia have darkened skies in parts of the archipelago and disrupted some flights.

Vietnamese police have launched an investigation into illegal dumping of waste material from a Taiwanese steel company already under fire for massive fish deaths in what officials say was the country's worst environmental disaster.

Police say two to three vehicles carrying dozens of people plunged into a flooded river after a portion of an old bridge collapsed on Mumbai-Goa highway in western India.

Nicaraguan first lady Rosario Murillo was named Tuesday to be the running mate of her husband, Daniel Ortega, in his bid to win election to a third consecutive presidential term in Nov. 6 elections.

China's Defense Ministry has rejected accusations from Japan that the Chinese military is destabilizing the regional military balance by seeking to change the status-quo in the East and South China Seas.