Russia's defense ministry has presented the Ukrainian military attaché with a note of protest in reaction to Ukraine's plans to conduct training launches of missiles over Crimea next week.
Four people died in Costa Rica during the devastation of Hurricane Otto, whose epicenter has now moved into the Pacific Ocean, while Nicaragua's Cardenas municipality on the Costa Rican border awoke Friday morning unable to contact the outside world, without electricity and with overflowing rivers.
Controversy has broken out in France after a dozen conservative mayors asked for HIV-prevention posters featuring gay men kissing and embracing to be taken down in their towns, sparking accusations of homophobia.
President Vladimir Putin has given a Russian passport to U.S. action film star Steven Seagal, calling it a sign of a thaw in relations with the United States.
U.S. actress Florence Henderson, who gained lifelong fame for playing Carol Brady in the 1970s TV sitcom "The Brady Bunch," has died in Los Angeles of heart failure, the Henderson family said in a statement. She was 82.
Norway's Supreme Court has rejected Edward Snowden's request for a legal guarantee that would allow him to collect an award in the Scandinavian country without risk of being extradited to the United States.
Prosecutors say two British men accused of providing cash to a key figure in the mass terror attacks in Brussels and Paris used a bank account that included government money from excess housing benefits.
Turkey's state-run news agency says the presidents of Turkey and Russia have discussed developments in Syria, a day after three Turkish soldiers were killed in what Ankara claims was a Syrian government airstrike.
The top leader of Colombia's main rebel group says he hopes the U.S. will soon release a guerrilla member serving a long sentence and that President-elect Donald Trump will continue strong U.S support for ending a conflict that past administrations helped fuel.
Norway's state Lutheran Church has condemned the anti-Jewish legacy of Martin Luther, the 16th century German theologian who started the Protestant Reformation.
Amid frosty relations with Ankara, Germany is considering moving military planes involved in the international mission against the Islamic State group from Turkey to Jordan, Kuwait or Cyprus.
According to a poll conducted by Florida Atlantic University’s Business and Economics Polling Initiative, more than one in five Hispanics don’t plan to do any Christmas and Hannukah shopping at all this year, up from one in ten in 2015.