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Police in Thailand, acting on a complaint filed by the army, have arrested the niece of a conscript who was tortured to death by his fellow soldiers.

Vietnam aims to settle its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea through bilateral negotiations even though it doesn't rule out applying international laws, as the Philippines did in its recent arbitration victory, the deputy foreign minister said Tuesday.

Italian bank Unicredit is overhauling its management as part of moves to improve the bank's financial health.

Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden cars on Tuesday outside the offices of the U.N.'s mine clearing agency and a Somali army checkpoint in Mogadishu, killing 13 people, including seven guards, Somali police officials said.

The Latest on the hostage-taking in the French region of Normandy.

Israel's national museum says it will put on display later this week a 2,200-year-old Egyptian mummy that shows signs of some modern-day afflictions.

German police say shots have been fired at a hospital in Berlin.

The Latest on the hostage-taking in the French region of Normandy.

An Afghan official says a military offensive has been launched against the Islamic State group in the country's far eastern region.

The outspoken leader of Italy's right-wing, anti-EU Northern League party has refused to apologize for comparing the lower house speaker to a blow-up sex doll.

Two Turkish generals serving in Afghanistan and a former Istanbul governor have been detained as part of a crackdown in the wake of Turkey's July 15 failed coup.

The Latest on Tuesday's knife attack at a Japanese facility for the mentally disabled that left 19 dead (all times local): 7 p.m.

Ukraine's interior minister has ordered police to bar a major religious procession from entering the capital, Kiev, after police found ammunition planted along the planned route.

Slovenian police say they have found 12 migrants hidden on a cargo ship from Turkey.

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Heavy rains and floods have killed at least seven people and forced around 1.2 million to leave their water-logged homes in India's northeastern state of Assam.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says conservation work has been completed on half of a wooden barracks that housed prisoners at the former Nazi German death camp during World War II.

Spain's king has begun meeting party leaders with the aim of selecting one to try to form a government and avoid a third election, but no candidate appears to have enough parliamentary backing to do so.

The Palestinian president says he will sue Great Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its support for a Jewish national home in the Holy Land.

A local French official says police are surrounding a church in a suburb of Rouen, the capital of the Normandy region, after assailants seized hostages.