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

As the highly anticipated assault on the ISIS stronghold of Mosul grinds along, members of the minority Yazidi community wait with grim anticipation to learn the fate of loved ones trapped or enslaved in Iraq’s second-largest city.

A federal court has ordered the Swiss state to pay compensation to two Syrian men arrested and held on terrorism-related charges that were subsequently thrown out.

Serbia's foreign minister has complained that the Balkan country faces EU pressure to join Western-backed sanctions against Russia, describing it as "absolutely unacceptable." Ivica Dacic said in a statement on Wednesday that "Serbia wants to enter the EU but will not do anything that is against its own national interests." Officials also have said Serbia will contribute aid to a Russian humanitarian effort for Syria, insisting the decision was not political.

For Saif, an Iraqi army corporal, the battle for Mosul is intensely personal.

A mom who killed her eight-year-old son after he allegedly discovered she was having an affair with the boy’s grandfather has been jailed for 30 years.

Argentines are marching in the capital of Buenos Aires to condemn violence against women in a protest that is being echoed in other Latin American countries.

A man wearing an Afghan military uniform killed a U.S. service member and an American civilian outside the capital city of Kabul on Wednesday, officials said.

The Iraqi military on Wednesday called on Iraqis fighting for the Islamic State group in Mosul to surrender amid a wide-scale operation to retake the militant-held city, where up to 6,000 fighters are believed to be preparing for a climactic battle.

The Palestinians are urging the U.N.

France's interior minister has met with police union leaders in an effort to restore calm following two nights of angry demonstrations by officers protesting a lack of equipment and rising anti-police violence.

The monitor of South Sudan's peace deal is reporting "near-daily violations" of the cease-fire and says fighting could "trigger an uncontrolled escalation of violence." Festus Mogae said Wednesday that both sides have perpetrated "egregious violations of human rights" including gang rape and killing of civilians.

As her makeup washed away, so did their marriage.

US Army Apache attack helicopters have entered the battle for Mosul in support of Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State terror group, the head of the famed 101st Airborne Division running the coalition’s ground component told reporters Wednesday.

Super Typhoon Haima slammed into the northeastern Philippine coast late Wednesday with ferocious winds and rain that rekindled fears and memories from the catastrophe wrought by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

The man who spearheaded the ouster of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been arrested as part of a sprawling probe into corruption at state-run oil giant Petrobras.

The wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a television interview broadcast Tuesday that she has declined offers to leave her country earlier in the now six-year-long war in return for safety and financial security for her and her children.

A former Turkish military chief says the government was warned about U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement back in 2004 but no action was taken against the group.

Nigeria's president is vowing to "redouble" efforts to secure the release of nearly 200 schoolgirls who remain missing more than two years after being abducted by Boko Haram extremists.

Lawmakers in the Czech Parliament's lower house have condemned this week's resolution by UNESCO that Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem.