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The Russian Embassy in Nigeria says pirates have kidnapped the Russian captain and two crewmen off a ship in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea.

Former U.N.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has urged the European Union to extend sanctions against Russia, which he says continues its armed aggression in eastern Ukraine against international agreements.

Nelson Mandela's dream of a hospital to provide specialized care for children has opened in Johannesburg on Friday.

Lithuania has opened a 24-hour hotline for citizens to report potential foreign spies in an effort to increase public awareness of potential threats.

German authorities have arrested an Afghan man suspected of being a member of the Taliban.

Hong Kong authorities are stepping up their campaign against opposition lawmakers who used their swearing-in ceremony to stage apparent protests against Beijing.

A former first lady of Peru who began working for the U.N.

A Russian theater director is asking President Vladimir Putin to protect the nation's arts scene from interference by officials and vigilantes.

An Iraqi commander says troops fighting Islamic State militants in the northern city of Mosul are now in full control of a densely populated neighborhood and have retaken another.

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Disabled people and patients with chronic illnesses from around Greece protested in central Athens Friday against austerity measures as the government races to clinch a new deal with bailout lenders.

French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says the spring election will pit nationalists and patriots like herself against those in favor of globalization, the European Union and immigration.

The head of Gambia's election commission says President Yahya Jammeh will accept defeat more than 22 years after he seized power in a coup.

A Hungarian cable news and talk channel has been sold to an ally of the prime minister, the broadcaster's founder said Friday.

Technicians are working across Poland to restore power to some 180,000 households and to unblock roads and railway tracks after heavy snowfall and wind broke power lines and felled trees.

In a planned move, Denmark is pulling back its F-16 fighter jet squadron from an international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Pope Francis has put an American priest killed during Guatemala's civil war on the path to possible sainthood by declaring him a martyr.

Prosecutors are seeking a four-year jail sentence for a train dispatcher accused of negligence that led to one of the worst train crashes in German history this year.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is using his first major policy address to underscore his country's commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.