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Iran's moderate President Hassan Rouhani has appointed a woman as the head of the country's tourism and cultural heritage department.

A Somali police official says a suicide car bomber has targeted an army convoy near parliament headquarters in Somalia's capital.

Hooded youths taking part in an anti-government protest in the Italian city of Florence have attacked police with cobblestones, sticks and other objects and police have responded with tear gas.

Angela Merkel's allies in Bavaria are positioning themselves to the right of the chancellor in a bid to win voters disgruntled by her immigration policies at next year's national election.

Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper said Saturday that a court ordered that its chief editor and eight senior staff be jailed pending trial, prompting a call for an emergency meeting by Turkey's main opposition party.

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Thousands have gathered in Albania to celebrate the beatification of 38 Albanian Catholic martyrs executed or tortured to death during the former communist regime.

The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party says Prime Minister Theresa May's government is resisting "democratic scrutiny" of the Brexit process because it has not developed any plans for leaving the 28-nation bloc.

South African President Jacob Zuma says he is not afraid of going to jail, in a defiant response to critics who say he should resign because of scandals involving alleged corruption.

France's defense ministry says a French soldier was fatally injured in an attack in northern Mali after a mine was detonated at his passing armored vehicle during a supply mission.

The opposition monitoring Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 74 civilians, including 25 children, have been killed in the 8-day-old rebel offensive on the government-held part of Aleppo city.

The Latest on the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 2:15 p.m.

Nigeria's army says it has rescued one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamic extremists more than two years ago in a raid on a forest hideout.

Turkey's state-run news agency says the leader of the pro-Kurdish opposition party has been taken to a maximum security prison in the northwestern city of Edirne.

Romanian authorities say three people have died and 57 were injured in a pileup on a fog-bound highway.

Spain's Interior Ministry says French police have arrested the leading member of the Basque militant group ETA.

An Afghan official says one person has been killed after a sticky bomb targeted a district chief's vehicle in the country's east.

A senior Pakistani meteorologist says heavy smog loaded with pollutants has covered the city of Lahore and elsewhere, causing breathing problems and disrupting normal traffic.

Iraqi special forces on Saturday were clearing buildings in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out Islamic State militants in their drive to take back the city.

Opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper says a court has ordered that its chief editor and eight senior staff be jailed pending trial.