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A loud explosion was heard in Turkey's capital city of Ankara Tuesday, with one report saying an explosion may have occurred at the state-run television building.

The Latest on the German train attack (all times local): 4:25 p.m.

The Iraqi government has announced a two-day mandatory official holiday beginning Wednesday due to a heat wave.

Israeli police say they are stepping up security measures for this week's gay pride parade in Jerusalem after a deadly attack at last year's festivities.

Iran's semi-official ILNA news agency is reporting that at least one person has been killed and 30 people injured in clashes over a water supply.

Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by truck and crane, to a sanctuary for the threatened species.

Serbian police say they have detained six people for smuggling 78 migrants trying to reach the European Union.

The Russian intelligence agency says it is conducting a probe of several top-ranking crime investigators on suspicion of collusion with criminal gangs.

Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militant was killed in a gunbattle with security forces, a top minister said Tuesday, in a victory for the government's counterterrorism campaign that further tightens the vise on a dwindling band of extremists in the jungles of Sulawesi island.

The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia says it does not mind people playing the hit smartphone game "Pokemon Go" around synagogues and other cultural buildings.

Prague's City Hall has agreed to completely ban Segway scooters in the city's historic center and some other parts of the Czech capital.

Zimbabwe's president is attacking the pastor who organized a nationwide strike against the government, saying he should move to another country if he's unhappy with conditions at home.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for an ax-and-knife attack on a German train that left at least five people injured, but authorities said it appears the 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was shot and killed by police as he fled the scene appears to have self-radicalized and had no direct link to the extremists.

A lawyer for the British government has confirmed that the country will not begin exit talks with the European Union this year.

Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says verdicts are to be handed down in 10 days for suspects on trial over the storming of Saudi diplomatic missions in January.

In a pre-dawn operation near a tribal region, the Pakistani army and paramilitary troops on Tuesday rescued a chief justice's son kidnapped last month in southern Sindh province by a splinter group of the Taliban, the army spokesman said.

Turkey's central bank cut a key interest rate Tuesday, days after an attempted coup triggered concerns over the country's economic outlook.

Romania's prime minister is launching a national anti-corruption strategy in a bid to crack down on widespread corruption that plagues every walk of life in Romania.

The Latest on the attempted military coup in Turkey (all times local): 2:10 p.m.

Afghan officials say the Taliban have launched attacks on multiple fronts in the country, including a strategic tunnel in the Hindu Kush mountains.