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EU and Arab leaders will meet in Egypt in February for their first summit as part of efforts to forge a new European-African alliance and fight migrant smuggling, EU officials said Thursday. European Union leaders first mentioned the summit in Austria

Israel will hold an early general election in April, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, after members of his governing coalition met to discuss differences over legislation. “The leaders of the coalition decided unanimously to dissolve parliament

The white coffin with the body of the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died while in U.S. custody ended its heartbreaking journey home in the pre-dawn hours Monday in a tiny hamlet 220 miles north of the capital. The death of Jakelin

A brazen hourslong coordinated assault on a government building in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed 29 people, most of them employees of the department for martyrs and disabled persons, said Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish. Another 23 people

The Mount Etna observatory says lava and ash are spewing from a new fracture on the active Sicilian volcano amid an unusually high level of seismic activity. Italy’s national institute for geophysics and vulcanology (INGV) counted more than 130 seismic shocks