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The head of South Africa's state watchdog agency says she is delaying the release of a report on whether a wealthy business family linked to President Jacob Zuma sought to influence Cabinet minister appointments.

A Pakistani minister says the government has lifted a travel ban imposed on a prominent journalist after he published what they called a fabricated story about a high level security meeting.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is determined to take part in a possible operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, despite calls from Iraq for Turkey to withdraw its troops.

The former head of Azerbaijan's largest bank has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment over an alleged scheme to remove billions of dollars from the bank.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains open to holding top-level talks with Ukraine, Russia and France on the conflict in eastern Ukraine next week.

Aritz Parra, a multi-format journalist based in Beijing, China, has been named The Associated Press' chief correspondent for Iberia.

The Obama administration announced Friday it is eliminating a $100 limit on the value of Cuban rum and cigars that American travelers can bring back from the island.

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia could sell missile defense systems to Turkey.

Business representatives from Balkan rivals Serbia and Albania have met in an effort to boost economic ties and stabilize the troubled region where tensions still simmer following the 1990s' war.

The head of Russia's Orthodox Church begins a four-day visit to Britain Saturday that includes an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, but his visit has stirred some resistance because of his strong support of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Thailand's king, who died Thursday, was reputed to be the world's richest royal and one of the wealthiest people on the planet.

Belarus says it will use the recommendations of 20 International Atomic Energy Agency experts who visited the construction site of the country's first atomic plant.

Turkey's state-run agency says authorities have issued warrants for the detention of 189 more judges and prosecutors as part of an investigation into the failed military coup in July.

The chief of Europe's top human rights body says Turkey must stick to the rule of law and human rights principles when prosecuting those it accuses of involvement in July's failed coup to buttress its reputation as a nation that has reconciled democracy with Islam.

The Jesuits have elected their first-ever Latin American leader, following in the footsteps of the cardinals who elected the Jesuit Pope Francis as history's first Latin American pope.

Egyptian security and medical officials say suspected Islamic militants have attacked an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 12 soldiers.

An international human rights body has criticized new legislation in Poland regulating the Constitutional Tribunal, the nation's top legislative court, saying the new law "gives excessive power to parliament and the executive over the judiciary." The Venice Commission, a group of constitutional law experts with the Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights watchdog, issued its opinion Friday during a meeting in Venice, Italy.

Poland's leader has opened a two-day summit of Central European presidents to discuss the region's role in the European Union and improving prospects for young people.

Greek police say they have arrested a Syrian man on the island of Crete who is wanted in Belgium for alleged involvement in a migrant-smuggling ring.

The US-led coalition is increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces build up ahead of a planned operation to retake the city, it said in a statement Friday.