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Lebanon's two major parliamentary blocs have named Saad Hariri, a former prime minister and a Sunni leader, as their candidate for premier in the government to be formed after a new president was elected.

More than 1,000 Italians have welcomed some 80 migrants to the neighborhood in Milan with a block party featuring a pasta lunch, a brass band and crafts in a gesture aimed at countering rising anti-migrant tensions.

A fire at a large karaoke parlor in Vietnam's capital killed 13 people on Tuesday, state media said.

Turkey has denied allegations by a human rights group that police have tortured or abused detainees following the failed coup attempt.

A slum camp built by migrants on France's northern shore, harboring unfathomable hope and humanity mixed with filth and fear, is now a puddled moonscape of dirt and sand dunes.

As South African police investigate the brutal murder of an Australian-British banker, more details have emerged of how his killer got in.

Venezuelan opposition leaders say the government has released at least four out of more than 100 jailed activists they consider political prisoners.

NATO is holding an emergency exercise drill in Montenegro while Russian troops will participate in a war game in Serbia as the two Balkan neighbors seem to be heading in different directions strategically.

Swedish police are searching for suspects in the killing of two brothers who were gunned down in the city of Goteborg.

The head of the eurozone's bailout fund says his institution will come up with initial proposals to ease Greece's massive debt burden before the end of the year.

Iraq's special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday and were advancing toward its more urban center despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who hold the city, an Iraqi general said.

Serbian authorities have released from detention a senior Kosovo police official who was jailed on suspicion of terrorism over a month ago.

A car bomb targeting a military checkpoint on a road leading to Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri exploded Tuesday, killing all nine people in the vehicle, police and witnesses said.

Turkey has appointed a local administrator to replace the elected mayor of Turkey's largest mainly-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, who was arrested over alleged links to Kurdish rebels.

The leader of a delegation from the European Parliament is urging Sri Lanka to improve human rights conditions, including the replacement of its tough anti-terrorism law, if it wants to regain lucrative EU trade concessions which the island nation lost six years ago.

Albania's defense ministry has nominated a woman for promotion to the rank of general, which would be a first for the nation.

Egyptians this week have watched the Nile's water turn a murky brown-yellow color, the result of days of heavy rain in parts of the country and subsequent flooding that eroded the surface of lime hills and mountains and swept them into the waterway.

Donald Trump’s favorability rating is sky-high here, where citizens are paying surprisingly close attention to the U.S. election and see the developer and political novice as the clear choice for the White House.

A German police officer is being retried on allegations he killed and dismembered a man he met in an internet chat forum devoted to cannibalism.

Iran's parliament has approved President Hassan Rouhani 's three nominees for the posts of culture, education and sport ministers.