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Hard-liners in Iran have released a video showing a detained Iranian-American businessman for the first time since his arrest last October.

A look at recent developments in the South China Sea, where China is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves: ___ EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a weekly look at the latest key developments in the South China Sea, home to several territorial conflicts that have raised tensions in the region.

Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine say a notorious warlord has been killed in a bombing in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

Russian news agencies say a man has blown himself up at a television station in the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.

A top aide of Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited Cairo to coordinate with Egypt in the fight against "terrorism" in the region.

The Japanese government will raise 416 billion yen ($4 billion) from the initial public offering of 160 million shares of Kyushu Railway Co., or JR Kyushu, the latest in the privatization of this nation's prized train operations.

Hard-liners in Iran have released a video showing a detained Iranian-American businessman for the first time since his arrest in October.

Dracula's castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the Transylvanian fortress.

European Union foreign ministers are debating whether to extend sanctions against the Syrian regime as political efforts to secure a cease-fire falter.

Thomas Harding is doing what other descendants of Holocaust victims would find unimaginable: applying for a German passport.

A state-owned newspaper in the United Arab Emirates is reporting that hundreds of Emirati doctors set to begin their residencies have gone unpaid amid signs of growing financial trouble in the oil-producing nation.

The United States and Britain are acknowledging the Western world's weak support for any military action against Syria's government as they seek ways to pressure President Bashar Assad and his chief backer, Russia, to halt a deadly offensive in Aleppo.

A strong earthquake has struck Papua New Guinea, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported, and there was no threat of a tsunami.

The cornfield is dotted with tents, mud-brick shelters and huts made of sticks and plastic sheets, home to around 900 Yemenis who fled the front-lines of their country's war.

Experts on a government-commissioned panel are set to hold their first meeting to study how to accommodate Emperor Akihito's apparent abdication wish.

Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway.

The Latest on the Iraqi operation to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 8:20 a.m.

For Yu Shuiping and other Chinese veterans, the country they served has yet to show its gratitude.

Officials in central Pakistan say two passenger buses have collided head-on, killing 24 people and injuring 69.

A Thai woman accused of insulting the country's late king was forced to kneel before his portrait outside a police station on the island of Samui as several hundred people bayed for an apology.