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An African regional bloc says South Sudan's government has accepted the deployment of a regional force to the country, almost a month after fighting erupted between opposing army factions.

Central African Republic's justice minister says United Nations officials have detained the son of a former president and handed him over to the country's authorities.

A Kenyan court has acquitted 35 Chinese nationals and five Taiwanese who were arrested two years ago on suspicion of wire fraud.

A United Nations Board of Inquiry says that it is highly likely that South Sudanese government forces supported an attack on a U.N.

Ecuadorean police have seized close to 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of cocaine and detained four people who allegedly tried to hide the drug in a truck that was to be put on a cargo ship in the port city of Guayaquil.

In the Belgrade Zoo, special treatment is reserved for one elderly resident. Muja, an American alligator, is the oldest animal in the Serbian capital's small zoo. Moreover, the zoo boasts that he is the world's oldest American alligator in captivity.

An international rights group has decried the prolonged detention and torture of a young detainee in Egypt over allegations that he belongs to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group.

Kuwait says that it has arrested a Filipina it accuses of joining the Islamic State group and planning an attack.

British police have charged a 19-year-old Somali-Norwegian man with carrying out a stabbing rampage in London's Russell Square that killed an American woman.

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After raiding a home and business owned by someone suspected of loyalties to a banned Muslim cleric, police listed the incriminating evidence they found: two shotguns, a pistol, ammunition, a fake identity card — and three $1 bills.

Police say they have uncovered a stash of guns, pipe bombs and explosives linked to Irish Republican Army dissidents.

The Paris prosecutor's office says that a Frenchman arrested in the Netherlands in March has been transferred to France, given preliminary terrorism charges for an alleged attack plot and placed in custody.

The British authorities have said Zakaria Bulhan – the 19-year-old Norwegian man of Somali descent arrested on suspicion of murdering American tourist Darlene Horton in London on Wednesday night and stabbing five others – does not necessarily have any links to Islamic terrorism.

Police say they have arrested a man over one of the deadliest mass shootings in Northern Ireland's years of violence, the murder of 10 Protestant workmen in 1976.

Authorities in Burundi are preventing public transport vehicles from crossing the border into Rwanda, in an escalation of tensions over allegations that Rwanda backs rebels opposed to Burundi's government.

France, on edge with fears of a new terror attack, continues to cancel traditional festive events for security reasons, the latest the famed Braderie de Lille, an annual flea market in the northern city that draws people from all over France.

Samuel Meso's graduation gown was once a source of pride for the 25-year-old Zimbabwean who studied engineering.

Turkey and Austria have traded barbs, with the Turkish foreign minister calling Austria the "capital of radical racism" and his Austrian counterpart telling Turkey to moderate its tone.

An Afghan official says at least 10 people have been killed in two explosions in the eastern province of Paktia.