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Thousands of people on Thursday protested in Banja Luka over what they said was a 'rigged' election in favour of pro-Russian nationalist Milorad Dodik in the vote for president of Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic.

United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador's prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left at least 13 inmates dead and more than 20 prisoners and police injured.

Mexico town hall massacre leaves at least 20 dead

Iran's clerical rulers will likely contain the country's eruption of unrest for now, and prospects of the imminent dawn of a new political order are slim if history is any guide, four analysts said.

Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday announced a debt pardon for some consumers and a tax on dividends to pay for welfare spending, shifting the focus of a his re-election campaign to the economy as polls tightened.

21 inmates dead in separate Ecuador prison clashes

France lashed out at Iran for "dictatorial practices" and taking two of its citizens hostage after a video aired on Thursday in which they appeared to confess to spying, amid weeks of unrest that Tehran has tied to foreign foes.

IMF chief urges action as global recession risks rise

Barcelona predict record revenues, rising profits

A crime scene investigation of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Europe has strengthened suspicions of "gross sabotage" involving detonations, Sweden's Security Service said on Thursday.

Canada's new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is putting pressure on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to back new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects as European countries reach out in a bid to plug energy shortfalls.

UN Human Rights Council rejects holding Xinjiang debate

US targets 'senior' IS jihadist in Syria's northeast: Centcom

The workers at the restaurant witnessed the incident, but couldn't do much to save the child.

Exhausted Ukrainian soldiers say 'only death' awaits Russians

Overlooking the Tigris river in Baghdad, a 100-year-old Iraqi mansion stands dilapidated and neglected.

The mobilized soldiers also said they had to spend their money to buy food and equipment.

Both of Brazil's presidential candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have proposed changes to the constitutional spending limit that defined fiscal policy in Latin America's biggest economy for the past six years.

With no hope of China-U.S. relations improving drastically, one senior Chinese analyst says "it's only a matter of time" before a face-off in the Indian Ocean.

Faced with Western sanctions, the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) gives Tehran the opportunity to build strategic partnerships in the east.

The conscript is the ninth reported case of a draftee dying since Russia started mobilization.

The couple's alleged killers may have links to the Islamic State terrorist group, a South African court heard.

West bracing for defeat against China at UN rights vote

The minor will be sent to a juvenile detention center after he is produced before a juvenile court, according to police.

Ukraine troops eye 'light at end of tunnel' on southern front

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S.

In Senegal, ancient male rite collides with modern times

Gunman murders at least 30 in Thai nursery attack

The suspect, 34, was an ex-police officer, who was discharged from the service for drug-related reasons.