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Dutch police said Friday they shot and wounded a suspect at Amsterdam's main train station after a stabbing incident in which two others were injured. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wwo44x

Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling, her lawyer said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2LIxmz6

The United Nations refugee agency urged Greece on Friday to speed up transfers of eligible asylum-seekers from Aegean islands to the mainland, saying conditions at an overcrowded Lesbos reception center were "reaching boiling point". from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NxdzV3

The Italian government could strip a national concession from the country's biggest toll-road operator, Autostrade, after this month's deadly bridge collapse and reallocate a revised version of it in a European tender, a senior official said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2N5Kh2Y

Three Swedish Academy members, who stepped down this year in protest over a sex scandal, said on Friday they might resume participating in some important votes at the body which decides the Nobel Prize for Literature. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PNxW25

Russia is contesting the jurisdiction of the international Permanent Court of Arbitration in a dispute with Ukraine over oil rights in the Crimea region, the Hague-based court said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PnulGL

Israel's defense minister described Iran on Friday as having slowed down its long-term force deployment in Syria, attributing this to Israeli military intervention as well as an economic crisis gripping Tehran as U.S. sanctions are restored. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2oxaytn

Bulgaria's prime minister sacked three ministers on Friday over a bus accident in which 17 people died, saying politicians needed to take responsibility for a crash that triggered a public outcry over the poor state of the country's roads. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wvKuTP

Emmanuel Macron's strategy for next year's European elections is taking shape and the French president sees it in stark terms - an open battle between anti-immigrant nationalists on the one hand and pro-EU 'progressives' on the other. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2LJkyZE

India's top court dismisses a Muslim group's complaint over a video that has gone viral this year. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Najm6o

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2LIqIca

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed sacked the energy minister, Khaled Kaddour, and four other senior officials linked to that ministry on Friday over corruption accusations, an official source said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2oryIW8

Protests erupted in the Ugandan capital on Friday after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care, witnesses said, from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PpMrIp

Germany warned on Friday that redrawing Serbia's border with Kosovo would fan ethnic tensions, while other EU states seeking peace in the Balkans rejected land swaps as too dangerous. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wy7YXC

Stars of soul, gospel and jazz honour the music legend on the eve of her funeral in Detroit. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2PSUXjV

Myanmar's armed forces released 75 children and young people from military service on Friday, the United Nations said, amid international outrage over alleged abuses committed by troops in the country's numerous ongoing conflicts. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wrkTew