The family of a Palestinian high school dropout who killed a 13-year-old Jewish settler girl in her sleep last month before being shot dead is now eligible for $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for "martyrs." Israel argues that such stipends for families of Palestinians killed or wounded in the conflict promote violence by rewarding attacks, and has stepped up a campaign against the fund after a series of killings of West Bank settlers.
The eurozone's top official has sought to downplay concerns over the financial health of Italy's banks, insisting that their problems are "not an acute crisis." Jeroen Dijsselbloem says that there are issues among Italian banks surrounding non-performing loans — in effect loans that aren't going to be repaid — but that isn't anything new.
The father of a U.S. airman and Afghanistan veteran who disappeared days ago in northern Italy says he doesn't buy a police report suggesting his son fell into a canal after getting drunk at a cookout.
Turkey's state-run news agency says police have arrested seven suspects pending trial in connection with the attack at Istanbul's airport that killed 44 people.
The Vatican says Pope Francis will meet with Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders during his Sept. 30-Oct. 2 trip to the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan, adding a strong interreligious dimension to an already politically delicate trip.
The Philippine military says troops have killed 40 Abu Sayyaf extremists and wounded 25 others in two battlefronts in the first major counterterrorism offensive in the south under the new president.
Human Rights Watch says the Turkish government is preventing independent investigations into alleged mass abuses against civilians across southeastern Turkey.
An international rights group says the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels has also damaged the impoverished country's economic infrastructure in the year-long air campaign.
Spain's Foreign Ministry has called in the British ambassador to protest what it described as reckless behavior by a Gibraltar police boat patrol toward a Spanish police vessel.
Volkswagen says it has decided to repay early a pair of loans from the European Investment Bank totaling 975 million euros (nearly $1.1 billion) as the company grapples with fallout from its diesel-emissions scandal.
Opposition monitoring groups say air raids have struck a diesel market in northwestern Syria, killing at least eight people, including a media activist.
A top German police official says it likely will be impossible to find many of the perpetrators of sexual offenses committed against women on New Year's Eve.
Romania's president has signed into law legislation obliging supermarkets to sell at least 51 percent locally-produced meat, fruit, eggs and vegetables.
