Newly appointed European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde makes her first official assessment Thursday of the mixed bag that is the eurozone economy, which suffers from slowing manufacturing and global trade even as consumer spending helps prop up growth.

Human Rights Watch says tens of thousands of Burundian refugees face mounting pressure to involuntarily leave Tanzania amid efforts by authorities there to reduce the number of Burundians in the country.

Five candidates have their eyes on becoming the next president of Algeria ? without a leader since April ? as voting began in Thursday’s contentious election boycotted by a massive pro-democracy movement.

The United Nations says dozens of observers expelled from its annual climate meeting in Madrid will be allowed back into the venue.

Shares in Saudi Aramco gained on the second day of trading Thursday, propelling the oil and gas company to a more than $2 trillion valuation, where it holds the title of the world’s most valuable listed company.

A landslide in a remote, Taliban-controlled district in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least six people, all of them poor villagers mining the hillside for gold, officials said Thursday.

Greenpeace activi sts scaled the European Union?s new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday and unfurled a huge banner warning of a ?climate emergency,? hours before the bloc?s leaders gather for a summit focused on plans to combat global warming.

Russia expelled two German diplomats Thursday in retaliation for Germany ejecting two employees of the Russian Embassy in Berlin last week.

To Matt Ryan, that’s still his little cousin.

The Paralympic marathons are staying in Tokyo, unlike the marathons for the Olympics, which have been moved north to the cooler city of Sapporo.