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The Latest on the campaign to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 10 a.m.

Diplomats from the U.S., Iraq and some 20 other countries are meeting to make a stabilization plan for Mosul, as the international military operation to free the Iraqi city from Islamic State extremists intensifies.

The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 9:40 a.m.

Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Japan's Nissan Motor, is due to hold a news conference amid reports he will become chairman of Mitsubishi Motors, presiding over efforts to turn the troubled automaker around.

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish jets have struck 18 Syrian Kurdish militia targets north of the Syrian city of the embattled city of Aleppo, killing as many as 200.

An Indonesian court sentenced an Islamic militant to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a suicide bombing and gun attack in the capital Jakarta earlier this year.

The bodies terrified Betchie Salvador, because she always knew her husband could be next.

The Latest on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's meetings with top officials in China as part of a charm offensive (all times local): 12:30 pm Chinese President Xi Jinping, in meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, remarked that this was the first meeting between the two leaders since ties began improving following Duterte's election.

Investors will look for clues about whether the European Central Bank will extend its 1.74 trillion euro ($1.91 trillion) bond-buying stimulus program beyond its earliest end date of March, 2017.

Lawyers say the Australian government has quietly lifted the threat of jailing doctors who speak out against child abuse and neglect of asylum seekers in detention.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was meeting Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing as part of a charm offensive aimed at seeking trade and support from the Asian giant by setting aside a thorny territorial dispute.

Iraqi special forces joined the Mosul offensive on Thursday with a pre-dawn advance on a nearby town held by the Islamic State group, encountering heavy fire.

A man with an Islamic State group symbol was shot Thursday after attacking police on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta with a machete, police said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held out the hope of an indefinite halt to his country's airstrikes on Aleppo after meeting with the French and German leaders, who condemned Moscow's actions in the Syrian city.

International condemnation is pouring in following the murder of two agrarian activists in Honduras.

Ukraine's president says an agreement has been reached at a summit with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany on deploying an armed police mission in separatist eastern Ukraine.

Two senior cybersecurity officials say that the world should brace itself for more physically destructive hacks, warning that a more dangerous era is already upon us.

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A ceasefire has started in Yemen after warring parties agreed to hold a 72-hour truce.

Czech police have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of cyberattacks in the United States, officials said on Wednesday.