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A lawyer for the family of a Palestinian teen whose 2014 murder was part of a chain of events that sparked the Gaza war says he wants Israel to punish the teenager's killers in the same way it does Palestinian militants.

Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, arrived in Kabul Friday to meet with his commanders to discuss a “resurgent” Taliban two days after President Obama announced he would keep thousands of additional troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in January, reversing a previous decision.

For NATO, its two-day summit beginning Friday may be the most crucial since the Cold War.

NATO's chief says it's not sufficient for the alliance to reinforce its own armed forces, it must also help partner nations in the Middle East and North Africa that are threatened by extremist violence.

Power has been partially restored on Taiwan after a powerful typhoon slammed into the island's eastern coast, killing two people and injuring 72.

Iraqi officials say the death toll from an attack on a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad has risen to 37 overnight, with 62 people wounded.

Unresolved questions have haunted Yuan Shanshan since her husband, the human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi, was taken away a year ago by the police.

A South Sudanese military official says five soldiers were killed in a shootout Thursday night between opposing army factions in the capital.

Authorities in Dubai say a small electrical fire has struck the sister building of a Dubai tower damaged in a massive New Year's Eve inferno.

Australia has extended its military mission in Afghanistan by six months to mid-2017 and potentially longer as the troubled nation battles a resurgent Taliban.

When Venezuela's opposition lawmakers took over the congress in January, they vowed it was the beginning of the end for President Nicolas Maduro.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in South Africa today on the latest stop of a four-nation Africa tour to raise his country's economic profile on the continent.

A global conservation group says Borneo's orangutans are now a critically endangered species due to hunting and destruction of forest habitat.

A 19-year-old Japanese college student joined others casting a historic first ballot at a polling station earlier this week.

U.S. and South Korean military officials said Friday they're ready to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system in South Korea to cope with North Korean threats.

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The former commander in chief of the Chilean army has been taken into custody for his alleged participation in the killing of 15 left-wing militants at the start of that country's military dictatorship in 1973.

Saudi Arabia has identified suspects in two of the three attacks that stuck the kingdom this week, including one outside the sprawling mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried in the western city of Medina that killed four security troops.

An Argentine judge has frozen the bank accounts of former President Cristina Fernandez as part of an investigation into allegations of defrauding the state in her administration's handling of the dollar futures market.