Europe's most wanted fugitive Salah Abdeslam has been extradited to France from Belgium to face questioning over last November's attacks in Paris.

Three men carrying Australian passports were arrested at a Bolivian international airport last week waiting to board a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, accused of carrying explosives.

Bali Nine member Michael Czugaj is among 66 prisoners who have been transferred to a remote jail in East Java after prison authorities said they caught him with traces of the drug ice in Kerobokan jail.

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As Russia’s propaganda machine jolts back to life, flooding the Western world with curated hoo-hah, a popular notion in Russia is that these days everything is PR - the same cynical idea can be described as a symptom of the post-Great Recession West.

Suspected Islamist militants have hacked to death a leading gay rights activist and a friend in an apartment in the Bangladeshi capital.

At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest in Egypt as the country marks the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials say.

It is not just the clinical detail of the brutality of American agents that makes the US Senate report on the CIA's torture shocking, it is how chaotic and in the end, pointless, the entire program proved to be.

Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.

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The TV host said sorry for her “meanness masquerading as edgy humour” after vicious tweets the then-supermodel sent to other celebrities in 2011 were unearthed.

"If fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in," said Clinton on Tuesday.

Panic erupted in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday as Boko Haram fighters poured into two strategic towns in pre-dawn strikes that escalated into battles with Nigerian army troops.

Demonstrators calling for a military coup occupied Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday, as anti-austerity protests continue in Rio.

Defeating IS and retaining influence in the Middle East is more important to Russia than in propping up dictator, analysts say.