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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expressing concern at the Turkish government's restrictions on individual rights under the state of emergency imposed after a failed July 15 coup and "worrying reports" of mistreatment of some military detainees.

A moderately strong earthquake with an initial magnitude of 5.4 has struck near the East Coast of Honshu Japan.

An internal probe by French police has concluded that security measures were appropriate in Nice on the night of the deadly Bastille Day truck attack that left 84 people dead and hundreds wounded.

DEVELOPING: Turkey's government has decided to close down dozens of media outlets, including 45 newspapers and 16 television stations in the wake of a failed military coup, the country's state-run news agency reported Wednesday.

A suitcase containing a spray can exploded near a refugee center and a police station in the German state of Bavaria on Wednesday, but no one was hurt, authorities said.

A Bulgarian prosecutor has charged three Syrian nationals with terrorism offenses.

A Human Rights Watch report says members of the youth wing of Burundi's ruling party have gang-raped women and girls related to people accused of being opposed to President Pierre Nkurunziza.

An Austrian court has rejected an appeal by a man suspected of links to the Islamic State group team that killed 130 people in Paris in November, clearing the way for his extradition to France.

Video captured a bull taking a break from a bull run in Spain -- apparently to run a quick errand.

Three Thai human rights activists have been charged with criminal defamation over a report that detailed alleged systematic torture inside military enclosures in the country's southern provinces.

Newspaper publishers are demanding that Nigeria's secret service release a colleague detained on accusations that he is an oil militant.

He wrote that he intended to kill disabled people and that his plot would benefit Japanese society.

They walked for miles in blazing sun to reach the doorstep of the European Union only to find its doors shut.

An Italian judge has indicted the Eni oil company, former CEO Paolo Scaroni and eight others on a charge of bribing an Algerian official to win an 8 million euro ($8.8 million) contract.

The family of a Burundian journalist who was arrested last week, reportedly by the country's National Intelligence Service, now fears he is dead.

German police deployed officers near a refugee accommodation center and a branch of the country's office for asylum-seekers on Wednesday amid reports of an explosion.

The head of Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church says he will petition European and U.S. diplomats to quickly lift an embargo against Syria.

In a rebuke to the Egyptian government, the top religious scholars of Egypt's Al-Azhar have rejected new government measures to standardize Friday sermons, saying such a step would "freeze" the development of religious discourse.

Israeli forces tracked down a group of suspects behind the deadly ambush of a family car in the West Bank earlier this month and killed the man who pulled the trigger in that attack in a shootout early on Wednesday, the military said.

The British Council, which promotes British culture and values worldwide, said Tuesday it has started disciplinary procedures against an employee who went on a social media rant against Prince George.