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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman is calling on Russia to exert its "great influence on the Syrian president" to alleviate suffering in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he and his German counterpart have discussed resuming international talks on resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine in light of escalating tensions.

The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.

A doctor monitoring the plight of 75,000 Syrians stranded on the sealed border with Jordan says she's been told infectious diseases are spreading among them.

A top Pakistani investigator says police have arrested the father and ex-husband of a British woman of Pakistani origin who was killed last month in what authorities suspect was an "honor killing." Samia Shahid's family buried her, claiming she died of natural causes.

An early-morning scuffle in the western German city of Cologne left a man seriously wounded Monday, and police have taken some bar patrons in for questioning.

Pope Francis is urging people to think about the plight of women who are "slaves of the arrogance of the powerful" as well as children forced to do "inhumane" work.

Iraq's parliament has approved a partial Cabinet reshuffle, part of a set of reforms proposed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi that has been stymied by the country's entrenched political blocs.

Firefighters in Portugal and Spain still are battling scores of wildfires after a week that has wrought the worst destruction in years on the mountainous Iberian Peninsula.

Lebanese state media say that a roadside bomb near the country's eastern border with Syria has wounded two Lebanese soldiers.

The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant.

Thai authorities say they are investigating whether bombings last week at several popular tourist destinations were related to long-term separatist violence in the country's far south.

Turkey's state-run news agency says police teams are conducting operations at three Istanbul courthouses as part of an investigation into the July 15 abortive coup.

Swiss police say a search has been carried out at the residence in neighboring Liechtenstein of a man who attacked passengers on a train with a knife and burning liquid.

A South African woman who kidnapped a newborn nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raised the girl as her own has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Syrian opposition activists and militant websites say a push by an alliance of rebel groups and al-Qaida-linked militants to open a new front with government forces in Aleppo has failed.

An official says Turkey has summoned Austria's charge d'affaires to protest a news ticker at Vienna's airport that claimed Turkey allows sex with children under age 15.

Turkish investigators call it the ultimate long game.

Zambia's president is leading in nearly complete results from an election whose vote-counting process has taken days and prompted opposition allegations of irregularities.

Turkey's foreign minister says Ankara needs defense cooperation with countries outside NATO because some Western partners are unwilling to sell his nation equipment or exchange information.