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A Brazilian judge has accepted charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for allegedly obstructing a corruption investigation involving state-run oil giant Petrobras, clearing the way for one of the country's best-known political figures to stand trial.

Beijing has criticized new European tariffs on Chinese steel as "unjustifiable" protectionism coming just weeks after commerce ministers from G20 nations pledged to promote free trade.

Nicaragua's top electoral authority has decimated the country's political opposition by unseating practically all of its remaining lawmakers in the congress as President Daniel Ortega prepares to seek a third term.

The Security Council has agreed to send a contingent of United Nations police to Burundi to tamp down on violence and protect human rights in the African nation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he was dropping all lawsuits against those charged with insulting him.

The United Nations has extended the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, delaying decisions on giving the force a more robust mandate in the face of rising violence in the world's youngest nation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is dropping all lawsuits against those charged with insulting him.

A Brazilian judge has accepted charges against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for allegedly obstructing the corruption probe at state-run oil giant Petrobras.

Pope Francis and his predecessors St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI each came to the memorial at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in southern Poland.

A Canadian couple found guilty of terror charges will walk free after a judge ruled they were entrapped by the country's national police force in a police-manufactured crime.

Colombia's government ombudsman's office says that nearly 1,300 Cubans who hope to make their way to the United States are stranded in miserable conditions the Panamanian border.

A village in northern Haiti is transformed over two days each July into the spiritual center of the Voodoo religion.

The Saudi-led coalition has refuted reports by rights groups that it is imposing a blockade on Yemen, saying it facilitates the passage of humanitarian aid without delay and in "record time." In a Friday statement, the coalition says that the health situation in Yemen is at the top of its priorities.

An editor in South Sudan says that prominent journalist Alfred Taban was released on bail Friday after being held for two weeks ago following the publication of an editorial calling on the country's president and vice president to resign.

Thousands of Congolese gathered in the capital's main stadium to show support for the president, who is about to begin talks ahead of the November elections amid expectations that the polls will be delayed.

A spokesman for Armenia's police force says three more gunmen who have been holding a police station in the capital for nearly two weeks have been wounded in exchanges of gunfire.

Scottish police have charged 77 people and found more than 30 million pictures of young people being abused during a six-week operation against online child abuse.

An Austrian court has cleared a left-wing politician of defaming right-wing presidential candidate Norbert Hofer by suggesting he is a Nazi.

One of the South African twin brothers charged with plotting to blow up the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, allegedly asked the Islamic State group to send money and provide training for them to carry out a suicide bombing campaign in the country.

A U.S. Air Force surveillance plane making a routine flight over Russia to fulfill a treaty obligation was forced to make an emergency landing in eastern Russia earlier this week after experiencing a problem with its landing gear, a Pentagon spokesperson told Fox News.