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Leaders of liberal American and Israeli Jewish movements are demanding the right to pray at a Jerusalem holy site and say the Israeli government's lack of progress on giving them those prayer rights is "unjust and insulting." Israel announced in January it would expand and officially recognize a special mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

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A Tajik and a Yemeni national each held for roughly 14 years at Guantanamo Bay have been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Serbia, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday.

Theresa May said Monday she was "honored and humbled" to be chosen as Britain's next prime minister, after the Conservative Party confirmed she would take over from David Cameron this week.

Twin brothers conspired to blow up the US Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa and various Jewish institutions there -- possibly on behalf of the Islamic State terror network, prosecutors announced as they filed charges Monday.

The family of a Palestinian high school dropout who killed a 13-year-old Jewish settler girl in her sleep last month before being shot dead is now eligible for $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for "martyrs." Israel argues that such stipends for families of Palestinians killed or wounded in the conflict promote violence by rewarding attacks, and has stepped up a campaign against the fund after a series of killings of West Bank settlers.

The eurozone's top official has sought to downplay concerns over the financial health of Italy's banks, insisting that their problems are "not an acute crisis." Jeroen Dijsselbloem says that there are issues among Italian banks surrounding non-performing loans — in effect loans that aren't going to be repaid — but that isn't anything new.

The father of a U.S. airman and Afghanistan veteran who disappeared days ago in northern Italy says he doesn't buy a police report suggesting his son fell into a canal after getting drunk at a cookout.

Turkey's state-run news agency says police have arrested seven suspects pending trial in connection with the attack at Istanbul's airport that killed 44 people.

The Vatican says Pope Francis will meet with Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders during his Sept. 30-Oct. 2 trip to the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan, adding a strong interreligious dimension to an already politically delicate trip.

The leader of Poland's ruling conservative party has commemorated a massacre of Poles by Ukrainians during World War II, describing it as genocide.

The Philippine military says troops have killed 40 Abu Sayyaf extremists and wounded 25 others in two battlefronts in the first major counterterrorism offensive in the south under the new president.

One of the Middle East's biggest carriers, Qatar Airways, announced net profits of $445 million in 2016, up from $103 million the previous year.

A ringleader of London’s Black Lives Matter movement brushed off the recent police murders in Dallas with the words “What do they expect?”

Human Rights Watch says the Turkish government is preventing independent investigations into alleged mass abuses against civilians across southeastern Turkey.

An international rights group says the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen's Shiite rebels has also damaged the impoverished country's economic infrastructure in the year-long air campaign.

Spain's Foreign Ministry has called in the British ambassador to protest what it described as reckless behavior by a Gibraltar police boat patrol toward a Spanish police vessel.

Volkswagen says it has decided to repay early a pair of loans from the European Investment Bank totaling 975 million euros (nearly $1.1 billion) as the company grapples with fallout from its diesel-emissions scandal.

Opposition monitoring groups say air raids have struck a diesel market in northwestern Syria, killing at least eight people, including a media activist.

A top German police official says it likely will be impossible to find many of the perpetrators of sexual offenses committed against women on New Year's Eve.