Tightening its control over popular anonymous chat apps, the Russian government has approved regulations that would identify users by their cellphone numbers.
Turkey says joint patrols by U.S. forces and a Kurdish-led militia in northern Syria are "unacceptable."
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The leader of Poland's populist ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has hailed his party's showing in local elections as an "all-out victory" despite its failure to win mayoral races in any large cities
A western Wisconsin sheriff says a 10-year-old girl charged with first-degree intentional homicide dropped a 6-month-old baby and, when the infant cried, she panicked and stomped on the child's head
The official overseeing the European Union's future enlargement says that, in the long term, it would be "more honest" for the bloc to give up talks on membership for Turkey
The U.K. data commissioner has fined a campaign backing Britain's departure from the European Union and an insurance company founded by its millionaire backer a total of 135,000 pounds ($176,000) for breaches of data laws
Firefighters in the southern French city of Marseille say they have found a second body in the ruins of two collapsed buildings.
Pakistan's foreign ministry: Senior US diplomat in Islamabad, holds talks with Pakistani officials on Afghan peace efforts
The "largest-ever" U.S. sanctions list targeting Iran has drawn mockery from Iranian officials for including mothballed Boeing 747s, a bank that closed years earlier and a sunken oil tanker
French rescuers find second body in ruins of collapsed buildings in Marseille
Relegation-threatened Empoli has fired Aurelio Andreazzoli after winning only one of 11 matches in Serie A
Voters in Michigan and North Dakota will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana, which would make them first Midwestern states to do so
Albania prime minister has accused the country's president of violating the constitution with his denial to decree a new Cabinet minister
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