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Burundi's government has rejected the proposed deployment of up to 228 United Nations police to the East African nation to monitor human rights abuses and calm violence.

A video purportedly by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate has delivered a threat to Israel, saying the Jewish state will soon "pay a high price." The 35-minute video, posted on social media this week, also purports to show footage of alleged attacks by IS militants against Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.

A major corruption case shaking Iraq has been taken up by the country's prosecutor general.

Six candidates are competing to lead Britain's right-wing U.K. Independence Party, which was a key force in the country's vote to leave the European Union.

Youssef Chahed, a minister in the previous government, says he has been nominated as the country's new prime minister, a decision that must be approved by parliament.

Romania's government has declared a day of mourning for the funeral of Anne of Romania, the wife of deposed King Michael.

A group of British lawmakers says the country has fewer than 10 Border Force vessels to patrol 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) of coastline — a "worryingly low" number.

A presidential spokesman in Uganda says some ruling party officials want to remove the age limit on the presidency so long-time President Yoweri Museveni can run again.

A German court has convicted a former top spy in Yugoslavia's secret service and his one-time subordinate of involvement in the 1983 killing of a Communist-era dissident, and sentenced them to life in prison.

Armenia's top investigative body said Wednesday that 23 people are now in custody on suspicion of organizing riots in the capital, Yerevan, during a two-week armed standoff.

Sweden has decided not to send back failed asylum-seekers from Turkey with "reliable connections" to the attempted coup in that country.

Pope Francis says while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi death camps in Poland he reflected on today's cruelties in "this world sick with cruelty, violence and suffering." In recounting his visit to Poland last week, he told pilgrims at the Vatican Wednesday that while seeing the camps, he thought that even though today's cruelties aren't as concentrated as those practiced at the Nazi facilities, they're similar in sense of suffering.

The Latest on the airport incident in Dubai (all times local): 2:25 p.m.

Nepal's parliament has elected a former communist rebel leader as the country's new prime minister.

The United Nations says the number of casualties in fighting in eastern Ukraine is back to last year's highs.

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The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights organization, is visiting Turkey for talks with the country's leadership and opposition officials — the first high-ranking European official to do so after the attempted July 15 coup.

The Mideast's biggest airline Emirates says "an incident" has happened at Dubai's main airport as social media users are reporting smoke at the scene.

Thailand's central bank says it has decided to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1.5 percent.

French President Francois Hollande has strongly criticized U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying some of the things Trump does make him sick.