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A self-styled head-of-state arrived in New York this week seeking, like countless others before him, to establish goodwill, form diplomatic ties and attract investment. But Vít Jedlička most important and daunting task is to make the case that his nascent “nation” actually exists.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he expects talks with China on a long-simmering territorial dispute to start possibly this year, and urged Beijing to allow Filipinos to fish at a disputed shoal.

The U.N.-backed tribunal trying members of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge regime for genocide and other crimes has turned its attention to forced marriages, with witnesses testifying how such bonds were supposed to serve the state rather than personal desires.

The American-led UN Command in South Korea on Tuesday accused North Korea of planting land mines near a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.

Kosovo police say that the public broadcaster's building has been attacked with a hand grenade that caused material damage.

The U.S. military said Tuesday an Army soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb during an operation in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.

Cyprus police have formally asked authorities in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north to hand over two men wanted in connection with the killing of a British man and the serious wounding of another Briton in the island's coastal resort of Ayia Napa, an official said Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch says Bahraini authorities are systematically targeting Shiite clerics and violating their rights to freedom of assembly following a decision to strip the country's top Shiite cleric of his nationality.

Supporters say a British-Australian man held in Dubai over a charge related to his charity advocacy has been freed on bail.

The Kremlin says the leaders of Russia, Germany and France have raised the alarm about a recent uptick in fighting in eastern Ukraine.

The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb during an operation in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is believed to have been fatally wounded in an airstrike while he was praying in a forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria, the military said Tuesday.

Lions, tigers and poodles? North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's latest gift to the residents of Pyongyang, the renovated central zoo, is pulling in thousands of visitors a day with a slew of attractions ranging from such typical zoo fare as elephants, giraffes, penguins and monkeys to a high-tech natural history museum with displays showing the origins of the solar system and the evolution of life on Earth.

The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local): 4 p.m.

Turkish officials say authorities are still trying to identify eight people who perished in a suicide bomb attack targeting a Kurdish wedding in southeast Turkey, and believe that the bomber is one of them.

Turkey's state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have attacked a bomb disposal team in southeast Turkey, killing two Turkish soldiers.

Police in northern Greece have arrested a 41-year-old woman accused of using a "threatening note" to rob two banks in the country's second-largest city.

Officials in Myanmar say United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a peace conference next week that seeks to end decades of armed conflict with ethnic minority groups.

A British man arrested in the killing of a police officer on the tourist island of Bali confessed to bashing the Indonesian man with a beer bottle and leaving him unconscious, police said Tuesday.

Police say government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fired bullets and shotgun pellets to break up protests demanding an end to Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region, injuring at least 14 people.