Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sought to ease tensions with Moscow on Friday over Tuesday's downing of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border, calling for unity against the Islamic State group.
US residents paused on Thursday to celebrate their blessings on Thanksgiving despite terrorism fears and racial tensions over fatal police shootings across the country. A record number of police officers patrolled the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, while St. Louis resumed its annual parade, canceled last year amid protests over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed young black man.
Malian special forces have arrested two men over last week's attack on a luxury hotel in the capital that killed 19 people, according to a statement distributed Friday morning.
They go to paddle between glistening icebergs or ski on blinding white ice, but a rising number of polar tourists get to see something else, too: the monumental changes wrought by global warming.
Wolves have returned to a large national park on the northern outskirts of Warsaw, decades after they were wiped out in the area under a hunt launched by authorities.
Belgium's tourist boards have latched on to the social media craze of cats, which gave Brussels light relief during a tense five-day security lockdown in the wake of militant attacks in Paris.
Child suspects and victims of crimes in Thailand are commonly paraded before journalists, who identify them, their families and home addresses, violating their rights and further traumatizing them, experts say.
Heavy flooding in Qatar on Wednesday caused gridlock on the country's roads as well as closures of schools and the US embassy.
A political rally by opposition supporters turned violent, leaving two police officers injured after rocks were thrown and guns fired during disturbances in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
A senior United Nations official has accused Yemen's dominant Houthi group of obstructing the delivery of humanitarian supplies to civilians in Taiz and warned that up to 200,000 people are living under "virtual siege" in the city.
Russian gas giant Gazprom ceased supplying gas to Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that Kiev had failed to make the required upfront payments on time.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was time to take a decision to join airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, arguing that Britain cannot "subcontract its security to other countries".
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