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The French Defense minister says his country is ending its military peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic.

Iraqi special forces advanced on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul from the east on Monday, taking heavy fire but seizing the last IS-held village before the city's eastern outskirts and clearing a path that was followed by army units.

An ethics probe has found that former European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso showed poor judgment, but did not breach the institution's code of conduct by taking a job with global investment bank Goldman Sachs.

A hero of World War II who vanished after he was credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust was declared dead Monday, more than 71 years after the war ended.

The United Nations' humanitarian chief says that if the warring parties in Yemen do not reach a peace agreement soon, the country could collapse with menacing consequences for the entire region.

A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western China on Monday, leaving 33 miners trapped, a local government official said.

Egypt's state news agency says the country's oil ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Iraqi counterpart to pave the way for Egypt to import oil from Iraq.

Rwanda's government says 22 French senior military officers helped to plan and execute the 1994 genocide, in which more than 800,000 people were killed.

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

When Ali Nimr drove drunk at night past Israeli police operating in his Jerusalem neighborhood, the officers sprayed the Palestinian's car with gunfire, fearing he was an attacker, according to his indictment.

Finland says it will start to operate the world's first icebreaker powered by liquefied natural gas on Tuesday as the number of LNG-powered vessels is steadily increasing in the Nordic country that is surrounded by the Baltic Sea and is heavily reliant on maritime transport.

Syria's military said Monday that it is determined to repel an attack on the government-controlled western part of Aleppo as it continued to battle insurgents in intense battles on the city's edge.

The British government has offered strong support for Bank of England Governor Mark Carney amid speculation that he'll soon announce whether he'll serve his full-term as governor.

An Ethiopian official says 2,000 people have been detained and later released under the country's state of emergency that was declared on October 8, 2016.

The Israeli military says three soldiers were wounded when a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a West Bank checkpoint.

Human Rights Watch says Nigerian government officials, soldiers and police are raping and sexually exploiting women and girl refugees from Boko Haram, instead of protecting them.

Police in Bangladesh have detained 15 people after hundreds of Muslims launched a wave of attacks against Hindu temples and homes in a rare convulsion of communal violence in the country's east.

A Bosnian court has sentenced seven people to a total of more than 12 years in jail for joining the Islamic State group in Syria and for illegally owning weapons.

Britain's Home Secretary has rejected holding an inquiry or independent review into violence between police and miners at Orgreave — one of the fiercest clashes of the 1984-1985 miners' strike.