German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted pressure from her own conservatives on Tuesday to tighten Germany's border controls and turn away refugees arriving via Austria, participants at a meeting of lawmakers said.
Three top Turkish police officials were sacked on Wednesday over the weekend's twin blasts in Ankara, as the under-fire president paid homage to the 97 killed in the country's bloodiest attacks.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that her opponents are trying to overthrow a democratically elected government by seeking to oust her without any material facts and spreading hatred and intolerance across Latin America's largest country.
Iran is ready to start implementing the nuclear deal reached with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani said following its approval by the Iranian parliament.
A partial reconstruction of a Malaysia Airlines jet made of wreckage found strewn across eastern Ukraine told the graphic story on Tuesday of its violent last moments after being hit by a surface-to-air missile.
A coalition of Muslim groups can pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accuses New York police of conducting secret surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey without suspicion of criminal activity, a US appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday called for a "fixed" oil price at around $70 per barrel and predicted that a meeting of oil producing nations scheduled for next week in Vienna would bring "good news" to the global economy.
Zimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of James Walter Palmer, the US dentist who killed a well-known lion called Cecil, a Cabinet minister said on Monday.
The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu found itself in political chaos on Tuesday following an extraordinary few days in which 14 lawmakers were found guilty of corruption but were then pardoned by one of their own while the president was abroad.
Okinawa's governor on Tuesday revoked approval for work needed to relocate a US air base from one area of the southern Japanese island to another, but the Tokyo government said it would proceed with the plan.
Britain said on Tuesday it was seeking the release of an elderly British man facing 350 lashes after being caught with homemade wine in Saudi Arabia, a sentence that his family said could kill him.
South Korea plans to compel secondary schools to use a single state-authored history textbook from the school year of 2017 with the aim of teaching students the "right history".
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