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Islamic extremists in Bangladesh hurled homemade bombs and engaged in a gunbattle with police guarding a large Eid prayer service at the end of the holy Muslim month Thursday morning.

A man has admitted to killing a fellow Muslim in Scotland because he felt he had disrespected Islam.

Serena and Venus Williams will be back on court, separately, to play for a spot in the Wimbledon final.

Human Rights Watch says Burundi's intelligence services have tortured scores of suspected government opponents at their headquarters and in secret locations.

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says the Revolutionary Guard has killed two Kurdish insurgents who have been on the run since last week.

The Latest on Britain's vote to leave the European Union (all times local): 11:30 a.m.

A spokesman for the Russian president says Vladimir Putin has signed into law controversial counter-terrorism amendments that have sparked alarm among rights activists.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Ukraine aiming to reassure the former Soviet republic that the United States stands by it in its territorial disputes with Russia.

Activists and state media are reporting continued violence around Syria, despite a day old truce, including a government offensive on a rebel-held supply line in the northern province of Aleppo.

Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that firefighters have extinguished a fire at a petrochemical factory in the southwestern oil-rich province of Khuzestan.

A French court has convicted and jailed a tycoon over a 283 million-euro carbon tax scam after a trial in which he testified he made unrelated campaign donations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

More than 500 inmates are being evacuated from a prison in western Germany after experts said parts of the building were so dilapidated they could collapse any time.

Chinese police say they have released an assistant to a human rights lawyer on bail, just ahead of the anniversary of a national crackdown on rights defenders.

Ukrainian pilot and lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko has thanked Poland for its support in obtaining her release after almost two years of Russian captivity.

The Polish capital once lent its name to the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-led defense alliance that stood as a counterweight to NATO during the Cold War.

Italian navy officials say they have recovered 217 bodies from the hull of a migrant ship that sank off Libya last year in a tragedy that sparked the EU to beef up Mediterranean rescue operations.

A powerful typhoon was approaching eastern Taiwan, churning up huge waves and wind Thursday that grounded fishing boats, commercial ships and planes.

U.N.

In what some are terming NATO's most important meeting in a generation, U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of the 27 other member nations are deciding how to retool the Cold War-era military alliance to face a daunting range of modern threats, from a hostile Kremlin to religious-fueled violence and attacks in cyberspace.

Cambodian authorities say they will ban visitors to the famed Angkor temples who dress immodestly.