Vatican prosecutors have asked a tribunal to absolve one journalist and give a suspended, one-year sentence to another for publishing books based on confidential Vatican documents exposing greed, mismanagement and corruption in the top ranks of the Catholic Church.
Trucks of Turkish aid have begun arriving in the Gaza Strip via Israel as part of a reconciliation accord reached between Israel and Turkey last month.
Poland's defense minister says decisions to be approved at this week's NATO summit in Warsaw will build a deterrence force that should make Russia "forget about threatening Poland" and other nations.
The plight of Kaavan, a mentally tormented bull elephant confined to a small pen in the Islamabad Zoo for nearly three decades, has galvanized a rare animal rights campaign in Pakistan.
NATO's chief says alliance leaders this week will approve the use of NATO AWACS aircraft to assist the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State extremist group.
Hundreds of Kenyans including human rights activists, lawyers and taxi operators peacefully protested against what they said are pervasive killings linked to police, as a court ordered that three police officers be held for two weeks on charges they murdered three men.
Israel's Shin Bet security agency says two Palestinian gunmen who carried out a deadly shooting attack at a Tel Aviv cafe last month drew inspiration from the Islamic State group.
A Turkish news agency says two suspected Islamic State operatives have been detained at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, which was the scene of last week's deadly triple suicide bombing-and-gun attack.
Poland's president has strongly condemned all forms of racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, saying there is no room in today's Poland for those forms of prejudice.
Malaysian police say a grenade blast at a bar last week that injured eight people was the first attack in the country by the Islamic State militant group, and that 15 people have been detained.