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Super Typhoon Haima weakened and blew out to sea Thursday after smashing into the northern Philippines with ferocious wind and rain overnight.

Portugal's center-left government is rolling back some more austerity measures, even while it pledges to keep cutting its budget deficit.

Cowardly ISIS fighters dressed in women’s clothes are fleeing Mosul while the group’s commanders have ordered their wives and girlfriends to escape before the city is encircled.

Iraq's special forces, which barreled into a town east of Mosul on Thursday despite a wave of suicide attacks, are the country's most professional and least sectarian fighting force.

Pakistan says it has encouraged Kabul to hold peace talks with the Taliban, saying a recent peace deal between Afghanistan and key militant leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar can serve as a model for talks with the main insurgent group.

European Union leaders lashed out at Russia Thursday, criticizing its backing for the Syrian regime and accusing it of atrocities in the besieged city of Aleppo.

Archaeologists have removed the protective cover from one of the Middle East's largest carpet mosaics — but only for a day.

A 16-year-old girl has gone on trial in Germany accused of stabbing and wounding a police officer at the behest of the Islamic State group.

The Russian military announced Thursday it was conducting drills involving state-of-the art missiles near the nation's western border, one day after NATO warned Vladimir Putin's regime had launched its largest naval deployment since the Cold War.

Turkish jets and artillery struck US-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters in northern Syria Thursday, and Turkey's state-run news agency said as many as 200 militiamen were killed, in a major escalation of Turkey's offensive in northern Syria.

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar says he could return to the country as early as next month, even if he has to enter the way he fled — on foot.

Iraq's prime minister vowed Thursday to protect civilians fleeing the battle to oust Islamic State extremists from Mosul, as the offensive picked up speed and diplomats worked to ensure the gains are lasting -- and that jihadists don't escape.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is pushing for leadership elections in his Fatah movement and the PLO before the end of the year, as part of what senior officials say is largely an elaborate attempt to block the return of an exiled rival backed by several Arab states.

A high-ranking Lithuanian military commander says long-range Patriot missiles could be placed in the Baltic country as part of a multinational NATO battalion next year.

Journalists from a suspended opposition newspaper in Hungary have edited a magazine sold by the homeless.

A German union representing cabin crew says it plans to stage strikes at Lufthansa's budget offshoot Eurowings over the next two weeks in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Austrian Airlines says that a crack in a cockpit windshield forced one of its flights from Cyprus to Vienna to make an unscheduled landing in Belgrade, leaving passengers to spend the night in the Serbian capital.

A Pakistani government official says rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two Chinese engineers from a mine weeks after they were trapped while trying to rescue a Pakistani co-worker.

The Russian military says it has conducted drills involving state-of-the art missiles near the nation's western border, amid tensions in relations with the West.

A man charged in the death of a New Zealand tourist who plummeted from his apartment balcony after the two began arguing during a date was found not guilty of murder on Thursday.