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BEIRUT — Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are still occupying a United Nations-run school complex, U.N. officials said Thursday. Dorothee Klaus, director of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or…

BARCELONA, Spain — An out-of-control wildfire on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife has burned thousands of acres and affected nearly 8,000 people who are either evacuated or confined, authorities said Thursday. Regional President Fernando Clavijo said some 250 firefighters…

STOCKHOLM — Sweden raised its terror alert to the second-highest level on Thursday after a string of public desecrations of the Quran sparked angry demonstrations across Muslim countries and threats from militant groups. The Swedish Security Service, known as SÄPO,…

ROME — Italian police on Thursday were scouring a wooded area in the country's north for a young Dutchman suspected of stabbing to death his father and a family friend a day earlier. According to Italian news reports, the 21-year-old…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A small aircraft crashed Thursday in a suburb in Malaysia's central Selangor state, with at least nine bodies recovered, police said. Shah Alam district police chief Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim confirmed that a jet has crashed. He…