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Israel says it will renew diplomatic ties with the largely Muslim African country of Guinea, the latest step in Israel's courtship of the continent.

Responding to international pressure, Albania's main opposition Democratic Party has agreed to accept the final draft of a judicial reform package, considered fundamental to convincing the European Union to launch membership negotiations with the Balkan country.

A Myanmar army general says soldiers killed at least five civilians last month and will be prosecuted, in a rare instance of the military taking responsibility for carrying out atrocities against ethnic minorities.

At least part of a 75-story skyscraper in Dubai burned Wednesday marking the third such blaze this year.

European arrests in terrorism cases were up sharply last year, as law enforcement moved to address a shift by jihadist groups to carry out mass casualty attacks on the continent, according to a new report.

All 84 people killed in the Nice truck attack have been formally identified, and the death toll for the Bastille Day carnage has not increased despite several people being still in critical condition, a top French official said Wednesday.

Dutch police say a 28-year-old woman has died after her parachute apparently failed to open when she attempted a BASE jump from an electricity pylon.

A 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker who went on a rampage on a Bavarian train with an ax and a knife appears to have acted alone, goaded on by online Islamic extremist propaganda, Germany's top security official said Wednesday.

Turkey's dizzying crackdown on tens of thousands of government workers could achieve what the coup attempt that prompted it failed to do: Bring the entire nation to a grinding halt.

The Vatican is striking back at conservative critics of Pope Francis' landmark document on family life, ratcheting up its defense of the pope with new vigor as bishops begin implementing the document around the world.

A residential skyscraper in Dubai has caught fire in the densely populated Marina district, sending plumes of smoke into the air.

Human Rights Watch says security forces in Kenya have forcibly disappeared at least 34 people over the past two years during "abusive" counterterrorism operations in the capital and the northeastern part of the country.

Iraqis are enduring the hottest day so far this year, with temperatures soaring up to 51 degrees Celsius (124 Fahrenheit) in Baghdad and as much as 53 degrees Celsius (127 Fahrenheit) in the southern part of the country.

Yemeni security officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up at a checkpoint in the country's south, killing four soldiers and wounding six.

Qatari authorities say a fire has broken out at a shopping mall under construction in the country's capital, the second such blaze in the 2020 World Cup host nation in less than four months.

The Nordic region's largest bank says it will close 68 accounts at its Luxembourg branch as it adopts tougher rules on clients using offshore companies.

An explosion has struck a southern Syrian town and there are conflicting reports on the cause of the blast.

Czech police say an international law enforcement team has broken up a gang that allegedly produced amphetamines to distribute on the black market in Sweden.

Tens of thousands of supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party are marching in the capital, Harare, in response to a series of recent protests against the government of 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.

Libya's dinar has plunged to a new low on the black market amid continued political deadlock in this oil-rich country.