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A Chinese court issued a suspended three-year prison sentence to a human rights activist charged with subversion of state power after a brief trial Tuesday, the first publicly acknowledged hearing in a secrecy-shrouded yearlong case involving hundreds of rights activists.

A brick wall in Melbourne, Australia, has become a battleground for freedom of expression in the city, as a griffiti artist "covered up" his controversial mural of a bikini-clad Hillary Clinton on Monday by painting a burqa over the image.

Italian financial police have arrested the former CEO of Veneto Banca and seized millions in cash, shares and property as part of a wide-ranging investigation.

Observances are being held at Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of the camp, who, like the Jews, were condemned to destruction under Nazi Germany's murderous ideology.

The leader of Spain's biggest opposition party on Tuesday snubbed an approach from acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to create a "grand coalition" that would govern the country and end seven months of political deadlock.

Hundreds of mourners were gathering Tuesday in the cathedral of Rouen, in western France, for the funeral Mass for the priest who was killed by two Islamic extremists last week in the nearby town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.

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The leader of Spain's biggest opposition party has snubbed an approach from acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to create a "grand coalition" that would govern the country and end seven months of political deadlock.

Bavaria's finance minister says the state plans to sue Volkswagen over losses to the state pension fund in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal that has taken its toll on the automaker's profits.

The United Nations refugee agency says about 60,000 people have fled South Sudan since fighting broke out between rival army factions almost four weeks ago.

Iraq's prime minister has issued a travel ban for some sitting lawmakers and politicians amid corruption allegations that surfaced during the questioning in parliament of the country's defense minister.

The recent stress tests into Europe's biggest banks were meant to reassure that, on the whole, they are strong enough to withstand another crisis.

Germany's Federal Office for Statistics says some 42,300 unaccompanied minors entered the country from abroad last year.

A new study has found that the proportion of people owning their homes in England has fallen to its lowest level in thirty years.

Syria's state news agency says rebel fire has killed at least nine civilians in the government- controlled section of the divided northern city of Aleppo.

Turkey's justice minister has sent a document to the United States seeking the arrest of cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and whom Ankara accuses of instigating an attempted coup on July 15.

An American man jailed in the Philippines for over five years has been freed after being acquitted of rape.

Kuwait is raising its subsidized gasoline prices for the first time in years, following its Gulf neighbors as low global oil prices continue to gnaw away at budgets across the region.

Air France's CEO says the company has lost about 90 million euros ($100 million) in a seven-day strike by cabin crew that has affected 180,000 passengers.

A group of lawyers asked by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to investigate mileage cheating at the Japanese automaker found the company set unrealistic goals, but employees simply couldn't say, "No." The Tokyo-based automaker acknowledged in April it had systematically falsified mileage data on its eK wagon and eK Space minicars, also produced for Nissan Motor Co.