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CANBERRA, Australia – Quietly — almost secretly — Zehra Duman morphed from private school student to Islamic State bride and online recruiter for the movement. Her family did not see it coming. So when the 21-year-old Turkish-Australian gave up her middle-class life in Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, for faraway …

ANKARA, Turkey – A pressure group says Turkey’s top administrative court has confirmed in a ruling that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 1,150-room mega-palace was illegally constructed on protected land. Erdogan moved into the palace last year, brushing aside protests by opposition parties and advocacy groups who say the $620 million …

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar has rejected what it calls “unbalanced comments” made by several Nobel Peace Prize winners calling for an end to the persecution of Rohingya Muslims. The Nobel laureates including South Africa’s Desmond Tutu, Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi and former East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta made …

BERLIN – A German court has canceled another session in the trial of a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard due to his poor health. The Lueneburg state court said Wednesday’s session in the trial of former SS sergeant Oskar Groening was called off, the fourth to be scrapped, and proceedings should …

A Russian court said Tuesday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is wrongly detained on false charges of espionage, will remain imprisoned until Jan. 30, 2024. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was detained on March 29 during a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg, the fourth-largest city in Russia, and accused …

FOX Nation host Piers Morgan joined “FOX & Friends” Monday to react to Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s refusal to outright condemn violence against women by Hamas. Morgan said the Seattle-area Squad Democrat’s attempt to draw moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas terrorists was “contemptible.” UNITED NATIONS SLAMMED FOR SILENCE OVER HAMAS …

STOCKHOLM – Norway’s Parliament has formally endorsed a move to exclude coal companies from the country’s $900 billion oil fund because of their impact on climate change. Friday’s decision was expected after a parliamentary committee last week unanimously recommended dropping coal investments. The new guidelines, which will take effect by …

BERLIN – The U.N. human rights chief is voicing alarm over reports of violence and intimidation by a militia attached to the youth wing of Burundi’s ruling party, the Imbonerakure. Zeid Raad al-Hussein said Tuesday its actions “could tip an already extremely tense situation over the edge.” He said his …

BERLIN – The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria says he has accepted an invitation from the government to travel to Damascus for talks with officials there. The office of Staffan de Mistura said Sunday that he wanted to give the Syrian government the opportunity to express their views about the …

MANILA, Philippines – Suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists have detonated a pipe bomb that killed a soldier and wounded eight others in an attack that was followed by a brief gun battle in a far-flung town in the southern Philippines. An army infantry battalion commander, Lt. Col. Cristobal Paolo Perez, says …