The Indian army says three of its soldiers have been killed along the highly militarized de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Britain's High Court will begin hearing lawsuits filed by a group of Nigerian farmers and fisherman alleging that decades of oil spills have fouled the water of the Niger River Delta, where a Shell subsidiary has operated since the 1950s.
Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have issued arrest warrants for 48 Kurdish militants, including the leader of a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish group.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said Tuesday that the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the northeastern part of the country and triggered moderate tsunamis was an aftershock of the devastating 2011 quake.
Lebanon's newly elected president is attending a military parade in central Beirut, the first such celebration in two years, to mark the country's Independence Day.
Greece's government and its bailout creditors remain apart in talks about new reforms, but Athens says a deal can still be achieved by early next month.
China says it is caring for about 3,000 refugees who have entered its territory to escape fighting in Myanmar between the government and ethnic rebels.
Turkey's government has dismissed a further 15,000 people from the military, police and the civil service as part of an ongoing investigation into the failed military coup in July.
Local leaders say Boko Haram fighters are overrunning villages near the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, forcing hundreds more people to flee as they loot and burn the area where nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014.
A Libyan anti-terrorism security force says authorities have arrested a wife of the one-eyed militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, once considered the most dangerous man in the Sahara and formerly a top al-Qaida figure in North Africa.
Spanish police say they have arrested the suspected financial mastermind of the alleged scheme of kickbacks involving Brazil's the state oil company Petrobras, construction companies and Brazilian politicians.