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Hungary says it is setting up a special department to coordinate the assistance and rescue of persecuted Christians around the world.

Drivers in China braced for wind, rain, and a giant bouncing balloon.

Barrick Gold Corp. says it is temporarily suspending operations at its Veladero mine in Argentina due to a new spill.

Libya's internationally recognized parliament, which is based in the far east and effectively runs this part of the country, has promoted a powerful general.

China has launched its second space station in a sign of the growing sophistication of its military-backed program.

A former Guantanamo detainee reportedly has awakened from a coma that resulted from a hunger strike to dramatize his unhappiness about being resettled in Uruguay and his demand to be moved to another country.

Unemployment in bailout-dependent Greece dropped to 23.1 percent between April and June, down from nearly 25 percent in the first quarter but still the worst jobless rate in the European Union.

A new report says Swiss trading companies are blending and dumping dirty fuel in West Africa with more than 100 percent the sulfur levels allowed in Europe, causing health and environmental hazards.

Two foreign tourists were killed and about 20 other people were injured in an explosion Thursday on a speedboat that was ferrying them from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali to neighboring Lombok, police said.

President Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party is expected to easily win a majority in Russian parliamentary elections Sunday.

A prominent pro-India Kashmiri politician has resigned from India's Parliament and from his regional party to protest a government crackdown in Kashmir that prevented people from offering Eid prayers for the first time in the troubled region.

A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country's Senate on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead.

The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local): 3:00 p.m.

Russia's new election chief whose notorious predecessor oversaw massive election fraud, says she will resign if the upcoming parliamentary vote is rigged.

An Albanian court has sentenced former labor minister Spiro Ksera to 20 months in jail for abuse of office.

A bank official says cash-strapped Zimbabwe soon will begin using notes issued by its own reserve bank for the first time since 2009.

Sweden's Armed Forces have published a "gender manual" to make officers pay more attention to equality between the sexes at home and on foreign missions.

A wing flap that washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian officials said Thursday.

A NATO official said alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg is looking forward to meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov soon on how to reduce chances of an accidental confrontation between Russian and NATO armed forces.

A new fence, electronic surveillance equipment and a paved road for police "border hunters" are all part of Hungary's continuing efforts to stop the flow of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa at its southern borders.