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Austria plans to upgrade the status of same-sex unions while still stopping short of declaring them marriages.

Maria Sharapova's ban for taking the banned substance meldonium has been reduced from two years to 15 months.

The United Arab Emirates' main state oil company is combining two major offshore divisions as it streamlines its operations amid a slump in oil prices.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited a synagogue in the Manila metropolis Tuesday to personally apologize to the Jewish community for making a "terribly wrong" comparison between his anti-drug campaign and Hitler and the Holocaust in a recent speech.

The Russian foreign ministry says its embassy compound in the Syrian capital of Damascus has come under shelling from rebel groups.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is at death’s door after being poisoned by a mystery assassin in Iraq, it has been reported.

German prosecutors on Tuesday dropped an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, citing insufficient evidence that he committed any crime.

Two U.S. officials—identified only as a man and woman—were reportedly slipped a date-rape drug last year at an upscale hotel bar in St. Petersburg in what played out like a scene from a James Bond movie.

Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte told President Barack Obama "you can go to hell" in a speech Tuesday that was his strongest tirade so far against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign, adding that he may eventually decide to "break up with America."

Canadian mining company Goldcorp says it is suspending operations at Mexico's largest gold mine as a weeklong blockade by a trucking contractor and local residents drags on.

Cyprus has returned remains of Greek commandos and air force crew killed in a military accident in 1974 when Turkey invaded the Mediterranean island.

Mali's army spokesman says one soldier has been killed in an ambush west of Timbuktu and the United Nations mission here says a second peacekeeper has died after an attack in another part of northern Mali.

Authorities on Tuesday suspended some 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen as Turkey pressed ahead with its vast crackdown on a network it says is behind the country's July 15 failed military coup.

As unrelenting airstrikes and gunfire trap thousands of men, women and children in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the Assad regime's tourism bureau has released a video that somehow missed all the scenes of chaos and panic.

Prosecutors have indicted a German man accused of joining the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab in Somalia on terrorism charges.

Britain's prime minister has announced plans to protect British troops from dubious legal claims made during conflicts.

Poland's conservative ruling party leader says the government will not back Donald Tusk, a former prime minister, for a second term as European Council head.

Dubai's transportation regulator has reached a deal allowing riders to book taxis through local ride-hailing service Careem.

Who says there's no free ride? Vienna's public transit authority is offering passengers precisely that if bus drivers run out of tickets.

Prosecutors say a fire at a hospital in western Germany last week in which two people died was caused by a patient pouring disinfectant over herself and setting it alight in an attempt to kill herself.