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A Kabul defense official says Afghan forces have retaken most of a southern provincial capital that was nearly overrun by the Taliban the day before.

An upstart German nationalist party has gone from ousting its leader amid bitter infighting just over a year ago to reveling in newfound success.

Republican activists are trying to "make America great again" — from inside a Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank.

Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last year's hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker in the scorching heat.

EU finance ministers are preparing to meet on Greece amid signs that country may fall short of economic commitments it needs to meet for its next tranche of aid under a multi-billion euro bailout plan.

The Latest on North Korea's nuclear test (all times local): 1:50 p.m.

Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ran it virtually uncontested until his death on Sept. 9, 1976.

North Korea on Friday conducted its fifth nuclear test, producing its biggest-ever explosive yield, South Korean officials said, with the South's president calling the atomic detonation an act of "fanatic recklessness." The North's test, which comes eight months after its previous such detonation, defies both tough international sanctions and long-standing diplomatic pressure to curb its nuclear ambitions.

North Korea confirmed that it had conducted a "nuclear warhead explosion" test Friday, defying international sanctions and increasing diplomatic pressure to curb its nuclear ambitions.

At the height of Cuba's post-Soviet economic crisis, a man with the obscure title of city historian began transforming Havana's crumbling historic center block by block, polishing stone facades, replacing broken stained glass and repairing potholed streets.

Honduran authorities say they have arrested the sixth, and last, suspect among those sought for allegedly carrying out the killing of environmental activist Berta Caceres last March.

The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying.

The Latest on North Korea's nuclear test (all times local): 12:45 p.m.

Honduran authorities have arrested a sixth suspect in the March killing of environmental activist Berta Caceres.

The popular mayor of a village in southern China has been given three years in jail for bribery in a case that prompted street protests in the man's defense.

Cambodia's government and its opposition are expected to face off in court and on the streets Friday as political tensions around challenges to Prime Minister Hun Sen's long-standing autocratic rule show no signs of easing.

The U.S. aviation regulator is urging travelers not to use the Galaxy Note 7 phone on flights following battery explosions that prompted Samsung to issue an unprecedented recall.

A European monitoring agency is reporting a 5.0 magnitude quake near North Korea's northeastern nuclear test site.

North Korea may have conducted a nuclear test to mark the anniversary of its founding nearly 70 years ago, South Korean media reported Friday.

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