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Romania's foreign ministry says a Romanian engineer abducted in southern Nigeria has been freed.

Thomas Kufen, the mayor of this rust-belt town in western Germany, thinks his city has a bad case of refugee overload.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia is fighting al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria who are using civilians as human shields in the city of Aleppo.

A US Navy ship in the Red Sea was targeted by at least one missile fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen on Wednesday for the second time in just four days, a US official confirmed to Fox News.

For more than a month, insurgents fighting President Bashar Assad's forces had been on the march in central Syria, getting within few miles of the fourth-largest city of Hama.

The embattled outgoing governor of an eastern Mexico state who faces federal corruption investigations said Wednesday that he will step down almost two months before his term ends.

The governor of Congo's Haute-Katanga province says a warlord and militia leader who escaped prison has surrendered along with 100 of his fighters.

Critics of Venezuela's socialist administration are denouncing as undemocratic a move to bypass Congress' role in approving the country's budget.

Burkina Faso's defense ministry says heavily armed assailants have attacked a military position in the north near the Mali border, killing three soldiers and wounding another.

The Russian military has test-fired three ballistic missiles in one day, drills that come amid a U.S.-Russian rift over Syria.

Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid rising tensions over the prospect of a new world war, it’s been claimed.

The case is considered the most important constitutional matter in a generation: can Prime Minister Theresa May start negotiating Britain's exit from the European Union without an act of Parliament? Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller's lawsuit against the government seeks to answer this as well as much bigger questions about where power lies in this nation's democracy and whether rights can be revoked without a vote of lawmakers.

France's Socialist President Francois Hollande says he will announce in December if he will run for re-election next year.

Danish anglers are rushing to a western Denmark fjord to catch some of the up to 80,000 farmed rainbow trout that have been accidentally released, hoping to keep them from upsetting the area's ecological balance.

Despite growing diplomatic tensions over Syria, the leaders of Russia, France and Germany may meet "very soon" in Berlin to revive peace efforts for Ukraine.

Bosnia's national prosecutor's office says it is opening an investigation of its own suspended chief, who is suspected of having obstructed probes into alleged corruption involving the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik.

France's government has approved a decree creating a National Guard to bolster security against extremist attacks across the country.

Malawi's president has been out of the country for almost a month, prompting demands for him to explain what critics call his "absence without leave." As rumors of a health crisis grew, the statehouse this week announced that President Peter Mutharika will return home on Sunday, exactly a month after he departed for the United States.

Serbia says a billionaire friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is on a U.S. sanctions list over Ukraine has agreed to become the Balkan country's honorary consul.

Insurgent groups like Hezbollah and the Islamic State group have learned how to weaponize surveillance drones and use them against each other, adding a new twist to Syria's civil war, a U.S. military official and others say.