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JERUSALEM – An Israel-based rights group has launched a lawsuit, seeking to block the release of $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets in the United States following the U.S.-led nuclear deal with Tehran. The Shurat HaDin Law Center says it’s acting on behalf of two dozen U.S. citizens who won …

ISLAMABAD – Two Pakistani intelligence officials say a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed four militants in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border. The officials said Friday two missiles hit a militant hideout in the village of Datta Khel in North Waziristan, where the military has been carrying …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says a bombing in the northern Kunduz province has killed 22 members of illegal armed groups, including four leaders. Abdul Wadood Wahidi, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the bombing late Saturday targeted a meeting of criminal groups that in the past have clashed …

BEIRUT – Syrian authorities have arrested a relative of President Bashar Assad on suspicion of shooting a senior army officer in a traffic dispute, setting off rare protests in a coastal stronghold of the Assad family. Latakia’s Gov. Khodr al-Salem says in comments published late Monday by state-run news agency …

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s parliament has approved a report implicating senior officials over the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State group last year. Speaker Salim al-Jabouri told reporters Monday the report, prepared by parliament’s security and defense committee, will be sent to Iraq’s prosecutor general. Al-Jabouri added that “no one …

BEIRUT – Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says a boat carrying about 40 Palestinians from a refugee camp in Syria capsized en route to Turkey and that at least nine migrants drowned. Wednesday’s report says the vessel left the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Monday and capsized after entering …

ROME – Italy’s coast guard says some 50 bodies have been found in the hull of a migrant boat that was rescued off Libya’s northern coast. Coast guard Lt. Claudio Bernetti said the Swedish ship Poseiden, which is taking part in the EU’s Triton Mediterranean operation, rescued 439 surviving migrants …

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – Officials and media reports say two British journalists have been detained in Turkey’s largest, mainly-Kurdish city, along with their translator. The Dogan news agency said Vice News correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury were being questioned by anti-terrorism police in Diyarbakir on Friday. An official from …

MADRID – A Spanish mayor says a man has died after being charged down and gored by a bull that was being herded into a northern village as part of annual celebrations to honor its patron saint. Jesus Garcia Pastor said the 66-year-old man had wandered into an area of …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch government is appealing a landmark court ruling that ordered it to slash greenhouse gas emissions, in a case seen as a possible precedent for similar legal action around the world. The government announced Tuesday it will appeal the June ruling that it must cut …