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Syria's President Bashar Assad has denied that his forces targeted U.S.-born journalist Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria in 2012 and says that he does not know how she died.

A suspected extremist being held at police station in western Kenya grabbed a gun and shot at police officers, killing four, leading to a hostage situation, an official said Thursday.

The United States, India and other countries continue to evacuate their citizens from South Sudan, where a fragile cease-fire appears to hold amid fears of a return to civil war.

Vietnam has protested China's recent activities in the disputed South China Sea saying they seriously violate Vietnamese sovereignty.

The seaside South Korean city of Sokcho is enjoying a surge of visitors who are wandering the streets at all hours as they look at their smartphones.

South Korea's central bank has lowered its growth outlook on Asia's fourth-largest economy citing Britain's decision to leave the European Union.

A police official says a suspected extremist being held at police station in western Kenya has grabbed a gun and shot at police officers, leading to a hostage situation.

Gay activists have canceled what was to be the first gay pride march in the Israeli city of Beersheba after Israel's Supreme Court restricted the event's route due to concerns of violence.

A veteran newspaper editor from Lesotho is in critical condition after being shot outside his home in the country's capital, Maseru.

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Amnesty International says Cameroonian security forces have unlawfully killed dozens of civilians and tortured and forced the disappearances of others in mass arrests of suspects in fighting the Boko Haram Islamic insurgency.

A leaked proposal shows the U.S. offering Russia a new military pact against the Islamic State and al-Qaida in Syria.

An international rights group says a quarter of all Afghan children work for a living yet the government fails to protect them from injury, death or exploitation.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a visit to Kyrgyzstan has welcomed the country's decision to send for review the case of an ethnic Uzbek journalist jailed for life.

South African authorities say eight people, some of them children, have died in a fire at an orphanage.

Britain's new Treasury chief says there will be no emergency budget — even though there are questions marks hanging over the economy following the country's decision to leave the European Union.

Iraq is marking the anniversary of the 1958 overthrow of the monarchy and recent victories over the extremist Islamic State group with a military parade staged in central Baghdad.

An Afghan official says there are no plans to revive a peace process aimed at bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table.

Islamic State confirmed through its media outlet Wednesday that one of its top military commanders was killed fighting near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

With the dust not settled yet from one of Australia's closest-ever elections, competing political factions have begun laying out disparate demands — from pushing for a ban on Muslim immigration, scrapping a trade deal with China to imposing curbs on gambling — as potential concessions from the government in return for supporting legislation in the next Senate.