China says media reports that a professor leading a Beijing-backed language and culture institute in Belgium was involved in spying are untrue.

The United Nations says humanitarian groups in Nigeria are relieved after the government lifted a ban on the operations of two prominent international aid groups.

Germany’s president is visiting Boston as his country wraps up a yearlong charm offensive designed to ease tensions with the United States.

Most of Ukraine’s rich farmland is carved up into small plots owned by about 7 million people, who own the land but can’t sell it.

Hong Kong protesters are calling for people to mark Halloween by wearing masks depicting government officials or scary characters.

Sri Lanka’s governing party presidential candidate has pledged to refocus the country’s security policy and introduce tough laws to tackle religious extremism and terrorism.

Libya’s coast guard says it intercepted 200 Europe-bound migrants, including seven women and three children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast.

A war monitor says a car bomb in a vegetable market in a northern region of Syria held by Turkish-led forces has killed at least five people and wounded 10.

Two sheriff’s deputies in West Virginia have been shot and wounded in an attack that also left a suspect dead.

Lebanese security forces are still struggling to open some roads as protesters continue their civil disobedience in support of nationwide anti-government protests.