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Indonesian television networks reported early Friday the government carried out a series of executions, rebuffing harsh criticism from human rights activists.

France's top administrative body denied a request by the sole surviving suspect from the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris to remove two live video cameras from his cell.

The ISIS terrorist who slit a priest’s throat and used a nun as a human shield during an attack in France on Tuesday bragged about his intended assault to an audience of up to 200 people on an encrypted communications app nearly a week before the spree.

The leader of Syria's Nusra Front said in a recording aired Thursday that his group is changing its name, claiming it will have no more ties with Al Qaeda, in a move the US and many analysts described as a rebranding effort to spread its influence among Islamic rebels there.

Turkey's top military commander, who was held hostage during an attempted coup, kept his post Thursday, while the general who served as acting chief of staff was promoted following a purge in the military following the failed putsch.

Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia's military takeover of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate's intentions toward the Kremlin.

Colombia's celebration of victory in the South American club soccer championship has ended in violence, with three fans killed in a night of boisterous revelry.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis uprooted by the Islamic State group are now returning home after a string of Iraqi government victories in Anbar province, but the United Nations is warning civilians may be returning too soon as much of "liberated" Iraq is still dangerous, littered with roadside bombs and bobby-trapped explosives.

Iran once again is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz – a key Persian Gulf shipping route – “if the enemy makes a small mistake” and threatens the Islamic Republic, one of its generals boasted Tuesday.

Much of the world was in a state of shock after two extremists murdered a French priest inside a Normandy church during Sunday mass this week, but while such violence seems uncommon among the Western world that are extremely common in places like Africa.

Indonesia executed four drug traffickers on Friday and said it had not yet decided when 10 others convicted of drug crimes would be put to death.

A Toronto police officer has been sentenced to six years in the shooting death of a teen on a streetcar in a case that sparked protests in Canada's largest city after it was caught on video and posted on YouTube.

Yemen's Shiite rebels on Thursday announced a formal alliance with the country's ousted president and his onetime ruling party by forming a new political council to rule the country, which analysts warn could add a wrinkle to peace talks with the current government.

Greek police say about a hundred refugees have briefly blocked a key road in the northern city of Thessaloniki, demanding better health services in their state-run camp.

The U.S. Army general in charge of American and NATO troops in Afghanistan says the Islamic State group presence in the country is directly linked to the parent organization in Iraq and Syria.

Officials in Thailand announced an investigation into accusations that a mayor angrily locked five reporters in his office and forced workers to pull the pants off one reporter to be photographed.

An Egyptian court on Thursday convicted the country's former top anti-corruption official of "spreading false news" over a damning report he had issued, sentencing him to a year in prison that he must pay fines to avoid.

Yemen's Shiite rebels have announced a formal alliance with the country's ousted president and his onetime ruling party by forming a new political council to rule the country.

Kosovo's special prosecutor's office says excavations in the center of the capital, Pristina, have found no traces of any people still missing from the separatist war in 1998-99.

The United Nations chief says the promise of peace and justice in South Sudan has been "squandered" and the country is "poised on the brink of an abyss." Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also said Thursday he is appalled by the scale of sexual violence documented by human rights monitors, who found that South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a U.N.