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The new chief prosecutor of an international effort to bring to justice those responsible for atrocities during Kosovo's battle for independence has pledged to investigate "without fear or favor." David Schwendiman, a former U.S. federal prosecutor who has also worked in Bosnia and Afghanistan, told reporters Thursday he is "aware of the political sensitivity of what I am doing," but stressed "I will be guided only by the facts and the law." Schwendiman is investigating allegations made in a 2010 Council of Europe report that senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, including current Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, ran detention centers where civilian captives, including Serbs, were killed and their organs sold on the black market during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia.

Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen says his country has been chosen to lead the European Union's new 16 million-euro ($18 million) program against corruption in Ukraine.

Dressed in a white pants suit, the new head of Japan's main opposition party stood out as she raised her hands on stage with three other dark-suited party leaders.

Officials from Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement say their fighters and allied troops have captured a Saudi military post in the border region of Jizan.

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 European Union has admitted Indonesia to a special licensing system it hopes will prevent the illegally felled tropical timber that makes up a substantial part of the country's wood production from being shipped to the 28-nation bloc.

Activists say Syria's cease-fire is still holding despite some violations but aid has not yet reached besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo.

Officials say a powerful typhoon has swept into southeastern China after hitting Taiwan, leaving a total of two dead and dozens injured.

Police say they have arrested the father, husband and brother of a woman who was tortured and hanged alongside her alleged boyfriend in a family courtyard in Pakistan.

Shares in troubled Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena are rising after the board confirmed Merrill Lynch banker Marco Morelli as its new CEO.

Human Rights Watch says a repatriation program for hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya doesn't meet international standards for voluntary return because it is marked by fear and intimidation.

Uniformed paramedics marched and ambulance lights flashed during a South African protest against attacks on emergency responders, who are sometimes targeted by criminals when they rush to treat patients in poor communities.

With strikes and protests, French unions are staging a last-ditch bid to dismantle a labor law that weakens their powers and worker protections.

Police say some 100 officers had to get between far-right Germans and asylum-seekers who were fighting in the eastern German town of Bautzen.

One person is dead in Taiwan after a typhoon roiled the island and parts of southeastern China, in what Chinese and Taiwanese weather authorities labeled the strongest storm so far this year.

The British government has approved construction of the country's first new nuclear power plant in decades, to be built with Chinese investment.

Separatist rebels and government troops are both reporting violations of a cease-fire that was supposed to begin in eastern Ukraine at midnight on Wednesday.

The World Bank says less than half the money pledged by donors to rebuild the Gaza Strip after the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel has been disbursed.

The Israeli military says it has struck three Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel.

Police on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali said Thursday a German woman was killed and about 20 other people injured in an explosion on a speed boat ferrying them to neighboring Lombok.