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An official says former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has asked the Australian government to nominate him for the United Nations top job.

British lawmakers are due to vote on whether to replace the country's fleet of nuclear-armed submarines, a powerful but expensive symbol of the country's military status.

Britain's foreign ministry says a plane carrying Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to Brussels has made an unscheduled landing because of a "technical issue." The Foreign Office says the Royal Air Force plane carrying Johnson and officials took off from a base in London and landed at Luton Airport northwest of the city on Sunday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday gave signals that Turkey might reinstate capital punishment in the wake of Friday's failed coup attempt.

Venezuela's government says a brother of the late President Hugo Chavez has died.

Henrik Stenson kept hitting the best shots of his life, one after another, because there was no other way to beat Phil Mickelson in a British Open duel that ranked among the best in golf.

A group that monitors online extremist activity says al-Qaida's North Africa branch has reported the death of a Tunisian commander in Mali.

The Turkish government on Sunday ratcheted up its crackdown on alleged plotters of the botched coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, issuing an arrest warrant for his top military aide while rounding up as many as 6,000 opponents of the regime, according to government officials.

Turkey reopened the airspace around Incirlik Air Base on Sunday, allowing the U.S. to restart strike missions targeting the Islamic State terror group, as the alliance between the two nations showed signs of serious strain.

The Turkish government accelerated its crackdown on alleged plotters of the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with the justice minister saying Sunday that 6,000 people had been detained in the investigation, including three of the country's top generals and hundreds of soldiers.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has called off a search for 15 people reported missing in an attempt to reach the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Funeral ceremonies and prayers for those killed in Turkey's failed military coup were held Sunday in Ankara and Istanbul, where the grief-stricken relatives mourned the price their loved ones paid to protect Turkey's democracy.

The Israeli military says it fired two missiles at a drone that crossed into its airspace from neighboring Syria.

Egyptian officials on Saturday disclosed that the word “fire” is clearly audible on the cockpit voice recording from EgyptAir Flight 804, but safety experts and a person involved in the investigation said there are no clear-cut answers so far about the sequence of events that brought down the jetliner almost two months ago.

The brother of slain Pakistani model Qandeel Baloch on Sunday confessed to strangling her to death for "family honor" because she posted "shameful" pictures on Facebook.

The Tunisian man who plowed his truck through crowds in Nice had researched the route ahead of the attack that killed at least 84 people and injured scores of others as they were celebrating Bastille Day, according to French media reports.

A hotel in Mecca's Azaziya neighborhood has caught fire, sending plumes of smoke over the area as firefighters worked for hours to extinguish the flames that engulfed the 10-storey building.

An Egyptian court has rejected an appeal by an Egyptian author against a two-year prison sentence he was given on obscenity charges.

The Israeli military says two soldiers have been killed after a grenade one of the troops was holding exploded.

Armenia's security forces say a group of armed men has attacked a police station in the capital, killing one officer, wounding two and taking several others hostage.