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Muslims worldwide are celebrating the first day of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," the most important Islamic holiday that commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim — also known as Abraham to Christians and Jews — to sacrifice his son before God stayed his hand.

Complete results of Croatia's snap election have confirmed a clear victory for the ruling conservatives, who now face a tough task of forming a coalition government.

The Chinese and Russian navies launched eight days of war games in the South China Sea on Monday, in a sign of growing cooperation between their armed forces against the backdrop of regional territorial disputes.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is visiting a holiday island in northern Greece where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

China says the United States has inflamed the conflict on the Korean Peninsula and must carry the burden of ending it in the wake of North Korea's fifth nuclear test.

Relatives of some of the 239 passengers and crew on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 want more of its possible debris to be examined to define a new search area for the missing plane.

Austria's interior minister has asked the government to postpone repeat presidential elections because of faulty absentee ballot envelopes, effectively cancelling a vote planned for next month.

South African media say several miners are trapped at an abandoned mine where they were working illegally.

India's top court has ordered the southern state of Karnataka to release water from a disputed river to neighboring Tamil Nadu after violence erupted in both states over water sharing.

A grouping of six Gulf Arab countries is expressing "deep concern" over a bill passed by Congress that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.

The Latest on developments in the civil war in Syria where a cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia is due to start at sundown (all times local): 12:10 p.m.

State media say a Vietnamese court has approved a Malaysian request for the extradition of eight Indonesians suspected of hijacking a Malaysian oil tanker more than a year ago, and rejected a similar request from Indonesia.

Turkey's state-run news agency says several people have been injured by an explosion near the ruling party headquarters and the governor's office in the eastern province of Van.

An American who has been a frequent visitor to Nepal has been arrested in the capital's tourist district on charges of sexually abusing children.

Samsung Electronics Lee Jae-yong, the only son of its ailing chairman, has been nominated to join its board of directors.

North Korea is mobilizing to deal with a disastrous flood that has killed more than 100 people, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and crippled infrastructure in its northern-most province.

Government forces in Mozambique have overrun a camp belonging to fighters of the opposition Renamo movement ahead of planned peace talks this week.

Election officials in Belarus say two opposition candidates have won seats in parliament for the first time in 20 years.

A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia is set to begin at sunset in Syria amid mixed messages of commitment from various rebel factions but with verbal backing by President Bashar Assad's government.

Turkey's president says the dismissal of 28 elected municipal and district mayors in several predominantly Kurdish towns in the country's east and southeast was overdue.