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Congo's President Joseph Kabila has issued a series of pardons meant to ease tensions around upcoming elections.

A couple and their three children have been gunned down in western Mexico, marking the fifth killing of families in two weeks.

Nigerian girls have the right to wear the hijab headscarf to school, an appeals court has ruled in a country where suicide bombers have abused Islamic dress to hide their deadly weapons.

The United Nations counter-terrorism chief says the Islamic State group committed or indirectly inspired at least 393 attacks in 16 countries during the month of Ramadan.

At least 16 people were killed and 17 wounded in northern Mali in fighting that ended Friday morning between rival Tuareg groups, according to an officer in the U.N.

Brazil's Islamic community supports police actions against a group of people suspected of planning attacks during the Olympics as long as the investigations are conducted in a transparent way, a Brazilian Muslim leader said Friday.

A new video surfaced of the Catholic priest widely reported to have been crucified on Good Friday by Islamist terrorists in Yemen, leaving remaining questions about his fate.

Military school cadets who were arrested following the failed coup in Turkey were unwitting participants because their commanders told them they would be attending a "surprise party" for the new head of the academy, relatives of the youths said Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he will meet Russia's foreign minister next week in Laos to review a plan to solidify Syria's tattered truce and restart long-stalled negotiations on a political transition.

ExxonMobil workers say the force majeure — or freedom from contractual obligations because of extraordinary circumstances — declared by the U.S.-based oil multinational on Nigeria's largest crude stream could last a month.

A Turkish diplomat says the presidents of Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are set to meet to lay groundwork on possible future deliveries of natural gas from Turkmenistan to Europe.

The Latest on an attack Friday night in Munich (all times local): 7:25 p.m.

An 18-year-old man with dual German and Iranian citizenship opened fire at a McDonald's restaurant and a crowded shopping mall in Munich Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring 16 others before turning his gun on himself, the city's police chief said.

Police in Germany say there's been a shooting at a shopping center in Munich.

Canadian energy company Husky Energy says between 52,834 gallons (200,000 liters) and 66,043 gallons (250,000 liters) of crude oil and other material has leaked into the North Saskatchewan River in west-central Canada.

A Vatican official says the number of nuns who dedicate their lives to prayer and contemplating God is dwindling, even as Pope Francis has written a new document praising their relevance in the world.

The United Nations Security Council is expected to call on the international community to help Libya dispose of its last remaining chemical weapons stocks.

The lawyer of a dual British-Australian national indicted in a botched attempt to kidnap two Australian-Lebanese children at the center of a custody battle says he has objected to a travel ban imposed on his client.

Here are the key events in the financial scandal and investigation that Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, will stand trial for.

Poland's foreign minister has defended the country's education minister, saying that remarks which appeared to deny Polish responsibility for two massacres of Jews in the 1940s have been misunderstood.