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Pope Francis has encouraged Europeans to welcome refugees, calling authentic hospitality "our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism." Francis Saturday spoke to alumni of Jesuit schools in Europe who were in Rome for a conference on refugees.

The capital of Turkmenistan, a country largely closed to outsiders, has opened a $2.3 billion terminal at its international airport in the shape of a flying falcon.

Morocco's elections next month will draw attention from around the region and beyond — but not all eyes will be welcome.

Philippine military officials say a Norwegian hostage has been freed by Abu Sayyaf militants who had beheaded two Canadian captives and freed a Filipino woman kidnapped with him in a southern marina last year.

Russia's space agency says a manned launch to the International Space Station that had been scheduled for next week has been postponed.

Iran's atomic agency is denying that the European Union has demanded full details of its manufacture of centrifuge parts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expressing frustration at Washington's refusal to publish the Syrian cease-fire deal reached with Russia, but says Moscow won't unilaterally release it.

Beer lovers from around the world are streaming to Munich's Theresienwiese for the start of this year's Oktoberfest, where security has been tightened following recent attacks.

South Sudan's government is challenging a new report by a U.S.-based watchdog group that says the country's leaders have amassed wealth abroad amid a conflict in which tens of thousands have been killed.

European Union President Donald Tusk is predicting that Britain will trigger the start of its exit negotiations from the bloc early next year.

Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is back in a South African hospital, just days after he left following three weeks of treatment there.

China has punished six local officials for failing to take care of a family whose grisly murder-suicide case prompted heated national discussion about the plight of the poor.

An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that a soldier killed himself after shooting to death three of his comrades in southern Iran.

Israel's military says its forces shot and killed a Palestinian who stabbed a soldier in the West Bank.

A powerful typhoon has caused at least 15 deaths in China and Taiwan just days before a second storm is expected to batter the region.

A hastily scheduled Security Council meeting was canceled because the U.S. does not want to make public details of the Syrian cease-fire deal, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said Friday.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Stevie Wonder, Michael Douglas and other stars pleaded for peace and the survival of the planet Friday which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said is "closer to conflict than we may like to think." At a ceremony Friday to commemorate the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21, Ban urged all combatants to lay down their arms that day.

French officials say three men have been charged and jailed after a woman was allegedly lured on Facebook by one of them and then gang-raped near the Eiffel Tower.

A fire has ruined much of a famed 16th century church in the Peruvian city of Cuzco.

Fifteen years after negotiations with leftist rebels collapsed in a fury of violence, the road to peace in Colombia once again passes through this remote southern town near where leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are gathering in a jungle conclave for their last meeting as an armed insurgency.