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Rights groups have written a letter to Oman's sultan over the recent targeting of journalists and activists by the country's Internal Security Service.

Deep in the woods on the outskirts of Moscow, a sudden burst of gunfire sends a flock of birds screeching into the sky.

A Croatian prosecutor has charged eight former Serb troop commanders with torture, rape, expulsion and killing of more than 100 civilians during fighting in Croatia in 1991-95.

Romania's Parliament has approved a bill to help holders of mortgages that were taken out is Swiss francs by converting them into Romanian currency at the rate at which they were borrowed.

The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local): 1:55 p.m.

Malawi's president is back home after a one-month trip overseas that intensified speculation about his health, and some countrymen are criticizing what they call a lack of transparency about his condition.

Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Norwegian government for allowing oil drilling in the Barents Sea.

A Nigerian community leader says the government is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction two-and-a-half years ago but more than 100 others appear unwilling to return home.

Danish police say they have arrested a 31-year-old man suspected of making a series of emailed bomb threats against major airports, a hospital, and at least two shopping centers, university campuses and public squares across the country.

Pakistan's air force says a fighter jet has crashed during a routine training exercise and that there are no reports of property damage or casualties on the ground.

A counterterrorism official says Bangladesh has discovered who funded the July 1 attack in which a group of assailants tortured and killed 20 hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka.

Britain's statistics agency says inflation in the country spiked to a near two-year high of 1 percent in the year to September from 0.6 percent in August.

Budget airline Ryanair has cut its 2017 profit forecast citing the slump in the British pound.

A United Nations human rights investigator says the Australian government is becoming increasingly secretive through a range of new laws, including a gag on officials speaking out about conditions at an Australia-run immigration camp in Nauru.

Police in Abu Dhabi say they've arrested three foreigners for trying to sell smuggled antiquities.

Luxury goods maker Burberry says first-half revenue rose 5 percent as the company benefited from the decline in the pound following Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

UNESCO's executive board is meeting for a vote on a resolution that minimizes Jewish ties to holy sites in Jerusalem.

The Latest on the Iraqi offensive to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 11:30 a.m.

Iraq's Kurdish forces say they are pausing in their advance on Mosul after capturing a handful of villages to the east from the Islamic State group as the Iraqi army presses ahead with the next stage of the operation to retake the IS-held city.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's office says she will host a meeting with the Russian, Ukrainian and French presidents on Wednesday to discuss efforts toward peace in eastern Ukraine.