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United Nations peacekeeping missions around the world for years poured untreated or untested sewage into public waters or agricultural lands in some of the most ravaged countries they protect, failed to dispose safely of wastewater, sewage and garbage, and only sporadically kept the environmental safety and sanitation records that missions are supposed to report regularly for themselves and for U.N. headquarters.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has captured images of a bright burst of light on the comet it is orbiting, apparently caused by a landslide.

Somalia's central bank says a bank teller is on the run after stealing $530,000 in a month-long scam that replaced real cash with fake bills.

Portugal's foreign ministry has asked Baghdad to lift the diplomatic immunity of the Iraqi ambassador's teenage sons who are suspected of attempted homicide.

Iraq's minister of defense has received a no-confidence vote from parliament just as Iraqi forces retook a key northern town near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul.

Russia's defense ministry says President Vladimir Putin has announced snap military drills on land and in the Black and Caspian Seas.

A government-backed commission in Burundi says the majority of Burundians want presidential term limits removed from the country's constitution.

The Latest on Colombia's peace deal (all times local): 9:30 a.m.

Some 30 demonstrators have gathered in London to protest local French bans of the body-covering burkini swimsuit.

Among the survivors of the devastating earthquake that struck central Italy on Wednesday are nuns, priests and a lucky few who also escaped unscathed from earlier quakes.

At least 13 people were killed and 36 others were wounded when gunmen attacked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghan officials said early Thursday.

A small Spanish town has come under fire for alleged cruelty to animals after a video showing a young calf being taunted, stabbed and eventually killed in the town's festival was much criticized on social media.

The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local): 3:50 p.m.

A former manager of a home for asylum-seekers in Germany has been charged with raping a Syrian woman.

A tourist from the Czech Republic, whose partner fell to his death, survived a harrowing month in the frozen New Zealand wilderness before being rescued, police said Thursday.

Three people have been wounded in an armed standoff in eastern Germany between police and members of a group that denies the legitimacy of the modern German state.

Brazil's Senate has begun deliberating on whether to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office.

Turkey's interior minister says Kurdish rebels have opened fire at security forces protecting a convoy of vehicles carrying Turkey's main opposition party leader in the northeast, wounding three soldiers.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah ahead of talks focusing on the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya with other Gulf Arab officials.