Yemeni officials and medics say a protester was killed and five were wounded as forces loyal to the country?s internationally recognized government used live ammunition to disperse a rally by separatists in the southern province of Shabwa.

The European Union?s highest court says that Facebook can be ordered by an individual member state to remove or block access to material which was previously declared unlawful and says that it can have a worldwide impact.

Britain?s government has restricted the export of 24 drugs as part of efforts to reduce shortages of some medicines, hormone replacement therapy drugs, contraceptives and adrenaline pens.

Authorities say an explosion has rocked an apartment house in southern Czech Republic, killing one person and injuring nine.

Japan?s space agency says its Hayabusa2 spacecraft has released a small rover that will land on the surface of an asteroid as part its final mission before heading back to Earth.

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A Dutch safety watchdog published a scathing report Thursday into a giant New Year?s Eve bonfire on a beach in The Hague that sent a blizzard of glowing embers onto nearby streets and buildings.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will bring his new Brexit plan to Parliament on Thursday, a day after he presented it to the European Union and received a guarded response.

Israel is swearing in its newly elected parliament.

A top marine biologist has urged Thailand?s government to speed up conservation plans for the dugong, an imperiled sea mammal, after their death toll for the year in Thai waters has already climbed to a record 21.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attorneys met Wednesday with Israel’s attorney general and other top law enforcement officials in Netanyahu’s long-awaited pre-indictment hearing on a series of corruption scandals.

Ukraine’s former president has accused the current government of betraying the country’s interests by signing accords with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Czech pop singer Karel Gott, who became a star behind the Iron Curtain, has died. He was 80.

Australia’s prime minister said Wednesday that his country is unlikely to provide the United States with internal government communications with an Australian diplomat who is partially responsible for triggering the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election.

The Mail on Sunday newspaper says it will defend itself 'vigorously' against a lawsuit brought by Prince Harry’s wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

Cardiff will appeal to sport’s highest court against FIFA’s ruling that the club should pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) to Nantes as a first installment of the transfer fee for the late Argentine striker Emiliano Sala.

An international labor union investigating worker safety and the use of migrant workers at venues for next year’s Tokyo Olympics is asking for a joint inspection of construction sites and an open interview with workers.

A lawsuit filed by a former police officer in Tennessee says negligence by his superiors led to a police shooting in which he was wounded by friendly fire and a black man was killed.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday criticized governments that wield absolute power as threats to religious freedom, as he scrambled to contain a political crisis back home.

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is holding imports of clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China and Malaysia as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe.

Serving up drinks at the American Legion post in Concord, Jeff Holland gets a little testy when the talk turns to smoking.

Firefighters have freed a deer that got stuck in an empty swimming pool in a German town, with a little help from a hunter.

Ukraine’s leader isn’t just trying to charm U.S. President Donald Trump ? he’s set his sights now on Tom Cruise, too.

Sri Lanka’s police chief, who has been suspended for alleged negligence leading to Easter Sunday bomb attacks, has been arrested for allegedly threatening a worker at police headquarters two years ago.

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On their first week in class, a group of students is playing a first-person shooter video game in a sleek new digital studio. It’s their introduction to the degree in esports they’ve all enrolled in.

Inflation in the 19-country eurozone eased in September, largely due to cheaper energy prices.

A senior North Korean diplomat on Tuesday said North Korea and the United States have agreed to resume nuclear negotiations on Oct. 5 following a months-long stalemate over withdrawal of sanctions in exchange for disarmament.

The official set to become the European Union’s employment chief has no plan to create a European minimum wage.

The BBC has reversed a decision finding one of its presenters in breach of editorial guidelines for comments critical of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Prosecutors in the only criminal trial involving the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has appealed against the acquittal of three former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives.

Iraq and Syria have opened a key border crossing between the two neighboring countries, seven years after it was closed during Syria’s civil war.

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Iran says this month’s missile-and-drone attack by Yemen’s rebels on major Saudi oil sites was an act of 'legitimate defense' by the Iran-allied Houthis.

A Pakistani mountaineering official says an army helicopter has airlifted two British climbers to safety and that efforts are underway to rescue their three climbing partners stranded on a peak in the country’s north.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels on Monday launched two attacks on U.S. and European military targets, officials said.

Three of four inmates who overpowered two female corrections officers and escaped from an Ohio county jail were caught in North Carolina after slightly more than a day on the run, authorities in both states said.

The group stage of the Champions League is only one round old and already Chelsea faces a match it cannot afford to lose.

Lebanon’s central bank governor says the bank will secure foreign currency for some imports in a move that is expected to ease the demand for hard currency.

Egypt’s president says he’ll protect the poor and middle-class Egyptians hard hit by his government’s austerity measures.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged calm as tempers flare in the debate over Britain’s departure from the European Union, even though tempers are flaring over what he said.

The professor refuses to campaign for president and the prisoner cannot, yet both are running for Tunisia’s highest office.

Hundreds of Lebanese are protesting in the country’s capital an economic crisis that has worsened over the past two weeks, with a drop in the local currency for the first time in more than two decades.

The family of one of Egypt’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, says security forces have re-arrested him while he was under probation.

A New York City police officer was shot and killed in a struggle early Sunday in the Bronx.

An Afghan official says that protesters are alleging an airstrike by U.S.-led forces overnight in the country’s east has killed at least five civilians.

Greek police say a car carrying 12 migrants has run through a red light and crashed into a vehicle coming from a side street, killing its driver, a 64-year-old Greek man.

The Slovak Defense Ministry says a Soviet-made Mig-29 military jet of the country’s air forces has crashed during a training flight.

Austrians are electing a new Parliament, four months after a corruption scandal brought down ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party.

The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a 'bloodbath.' Governments aren’t working together like they used to. Polarization is tearing us apart. Killing. Migration. Poverty. Corruption. Inequality. Sovereignty violations. Helplessness. Hopelessness.

Egypt has loosened security measures in the capital, Cairo, a day after it sealed off the main square and downtown thoroughfares to thwart a possible protest against the country’s president.

Security was tight as the family of longtime Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe prepared on Saturday to bury him at his rural home. A highly private farewell was planned for one of Africa’s most divisive figures after a weeks-long family dispute with the administration that forced him from power.

While the U.S. scrambles to crack down on vaping, Britain has embraced electronic cigarettes as a powerful tool to help smokers kick the habit.

Bosnian police have arrested two people after a group of soccer fans broke into a radio station in Sarajevo and forced its staff to withdraw a news item.

Had the night of June 13 gone differently, maybe NHL rivals would be looking to the Boston Bruins as the model to follow to win the Stanley Cup.

The WNBA will crown a first-time champion when the Washington Mystics and Connecticut Sun meet in the league’s best-of-five finals beginning Sunday.

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Saudi Arabia has announced a new tourist visa scheme, as part of efforts to open up the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom to foreign visitors and diversify its oil-reliant economy.

Iran slammed on Saturday the United States for what it called an 'inhumane' decision to bar its foreign minister, who was attending the U.N. summit meetings in New York, from visiting a hospitalized Iranian diplomat in the city.

A heavy spell of retreating monsoon rains has flooded wide areas in northern India, killing dozens of people this week, an official said Saturday.

Britain’s government watchdog says there is still a 'significant amount' of work to do to make sure the country has an adequate supply of licensed drugs in case of a no-deal Brexit.

Bulgaria’s highest court says it will look into a petition by the chief prosecutor to revoke the parole by a lower court to an Australian man convicted of fatally stabbing a Bulgarian student during a 2007 brawl.

UEFA has punished Red Star Belgrade for the latest 'racist behavior' by its fans, and banned the club from selling tickets to its fans for a Champions League game at Tottenham.

Egypt’s president has warned against 'deceitful' attempts to discredit his rule amid fresh calls for anti-government protests.

Mourners are signing memory books, flags are lowered and French politicians from across the spectrum are paying tributes to late President Jacques Chirac.

Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir hope speeches by Indian and Pakistani leaders at the U.N. General Assembly will turn world attention to the disputed Himalayan region.

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The European Union is imposing sanctions on seven members of Venezuela’s security and intelligence services on suspicion that they are involved in torture and other rights violations.

A senior adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has dismissed concerns about tensions arising from Parliamentary debates over Brexit, telling supporters that it isn’t surprising that people are upset about the country’s failure to leave the European Union.

Kneeling beneath Lebanon’s ancient cedars, Waheeb Humayed peers through a protective visor and waves a metal detector until he hears the tell-tale beep. He clips the grass, pushes a small prodder into the ground and gently sweeps the dirt away with a garden trowel, revealing another deadly mine.

The fate of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency of France may lie in the fate of his planned overhaul of the retirement system, which has already prompted strikes and protests.

A Georgia sheriff’s employee has been fired over a video that shows him confronting a 19-year-old Latina for speaking Spanish at a McDonald’s and then admitting to being a racist.

German authorities have closed three pharmacies in the western city of Cologne after a pregnant woman died after using a tainted diabetes test.

An environmental group is suing the operator of Poland’s giant Belchatow power plant to court, seeking to make Europe’s single biggest carbon dioxide emitter end its use of coal by 2035.

Ukraine’s president says his comments in a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump shouldn’t have been publicly released.

A court appearance has been set for a West Virginia woman accused of falsely reporting that an Egyptian man tried to kidnap her daughter from a shopping mall.

A Russian trawler with an ammonia tank and carrying about 200,000 liters of diesel oil was in flames Thursday at a northern Norwegian port and authorities evacuated surrounding areas because of an explosion risk.

Riot police on Thursday secured a stadium in downtown Hong Kong for a town hall session by embattled city leader Carrie Lam aimed at cooling down months of protests for greater democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

The Latest on Brexit (all times local):

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a backlash from furious lawmakers on Thursday over his use of confrontational language in Parliament about opponents of his Brexit plan, as the Speaker of the House of Commons warned that the country’s political culture had turned 'toxic.'

The European Union is appointing Romanian anti-corruption judge Laura Codruta Kosevi to lead its new public prosecutor’s office.

Estonian police have found the body of the former head of Danske Bank in Estonia who was at the center of a $220 billion money laundering scandal and had disappeared two days ago.

As India-controlled Kashmir reels under an unprecedented lockdown, children remain the most affected. The crisis has upended the education of millions of children in the disputed Himalayan region, and many have been caught up in street violence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting Venezuela’s leader in Moscow amid the ongoing political crisis in the South American nation.

A 22-year-old Florida man imprisoned for impersonating a doctor while he was a teenager and stealing from a patient has been freed from custody.

Israeli police say they have arrested the Palestinian minister of Jerusalem affairs for conducting political activity in east Jerusalem.

The German unit of collapsed tour operator Thomas Cook has been promised rescue loans from the government there, though the Polish one has confirmed it is going bust.

Switzerland’s lawmakers have given embattled attorney general Michael Lauber four more years in office despite criticism of his handling of corruption investigations linked to soccer governing body FIFA.

Sebastian Coe has been re-elected to lead track and field’s governing body for another four years.

Climate change is making the world’s oceans warm, rise, lose oxygen and get more acidic at an ever-faster pace, while melting even more ice and snow, a grim international science assessment concludes.

A California executive is returning to court to be sentenced for his role in the college admissions scandal.

China is calling on Washington to cancel a planned meeting at the United Nations to discuss accusations of repression in its Muslim-majority northwestern region of Xinjiang.

Japan has announced it is not inviting South Korea to an upcoming multinational naval review it is hosting next month because their ties are badly strained over history, trade and defense.

Another lawsuit has been filed over a Washington, D.C., senior living apartment complex gutted by fire.

The more than 2 million residents of Zimbabwe’s capital and surrounding towns are now without water after authorities shut down the city’s main treatment plant. It is raising new fears about disease after a recent cholera outbreak as the economy crumbles further.

The Democrats of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, crowded onto the steps of a local courthouse, dozens of union men protesting a looming power plant closure that would put their livelihoods at risk.

Britain’s Supreme Court is set to rule Tuesday on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension of Parliament was legal. Here’s how we got here.

Israel’s Supreme Court is hearing the appeal of the local director of Human Rights Watch to reverse his deportation order.

Spanish Supreme Court judges are to meet to rule on appeals against the caretaker Socialist government’s plan to exhume the remains of Gen. Francisco Franco from the gigantic Valley of the Fallen mausoleum built by the dictator on the outskirts of Madrid.

German business confidence has picked up slightly after a five-month decline, but managers are more pessimistic about their outlook for the next half-year.