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A United Nations committee that monitors acts of torture in member countries has grilled a Sri Lankan intelligence chief over the alleged abuse of detainees during the country's civil war.

Puerto Rico's government warned in a liquidity report released on Wednesday that it will run out of money in less than three months as the U.S. territory pushes for permission to restructure nearly $70 billion in public debt.

The area was supposed to have been cleared of ISIS days ago.

A proposal to make mosques reduce the loudspeaker volume of their call to prayer has sparked an uproar among Israel's Muslims, underscoring their fraught relationship with the country's Jewish majority.

Activists say a court in Ivory Coast has imprisoned two men for public indecency after they were accused of engaging in same-sex sexual acts.

Authorities in Mexico's Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo say the former governor sold state-owned properties to associates at prices far below their market value.

A Congolese press freedom group says a state television reporter was killed in his home by unidentified assailants.

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Military police in Rio de Janeiro are shooting pepper spray at demonstrators protesting austerity measures.

China has banned a nickname widely used to disparage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The migrant crisis has arrived in the small, Italian winemaking town of Soave, where the mayor is fending off plans to house more than 100 new arrivals and a growing protest movement is capitalizing on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's victory to seek an end to the politics of integration.

Albania's Defense Ministry says a woman has been promoted to the rank of general, a first for the nation.

Iceland's president has asked the leader of the Left-Green Movement to try to form a government, after the leader of the biggest party in parliament failed to assemble a majority coalition.

Supporters of the International Criminal Court are appealing for unity in the aftermath of three African nations announcing plans to withdraw and Russia symbolically turning its back on the court.

Syrian and Russian forces pushed on with their bombardment of Aleppo Wednesday, one day after the two militaries announced a full-scale offensive to retake the contested Syrian city.

Investigators have determined that a London tram that crashed last week, killing seven people, was traveling at nearly four times the speed limit when it derailed.

Poland's lawmakers have approved a new military force to strengthen the defense of a nation concerned for its security amid Russia's growing assertiveness.

Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday approved the resignation of the center-right prime minister, who stepped down after the candidate of the opposition Socialist Party capitalized on popular discontent with the government to score a landslide victory in last weekend's presidential election.

A Belgian police station apparently was so cluttered that investigators didn't realize a missing phone that belonged to one of the Paris suicide bombers was hiding under a giant pile of paperwork, local media reported Tuesday.