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Japan's foreign minister has met formally in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart for the first time in more than two years, amid diplomatic efforts to ease tensions between the two countries.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. and Russia have agreed to exchange information about developments in Ukraine.

More than 600 U.S. veterans of the Iraq War said they were exposed to chemical weapons agents since 2003 and that the Pentagon took little or no action, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The White House is not denying or confirming a newspaper report saying President Barack Obama sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the fight against the Islamic State.

Burkina Faso's army-appointed leader has rejected a demand from the African Union that he return power to a civilian-led government within two weeks or risk sanctions.

Refugees await unloading at a site in Upper Nile state, South Sudan.

Ukraine on Wednesday announced it will halt government funding to those areas of its eastern regions controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

Israeli police say a Palestinian man has driven a car into a crowd of pedestrians in Jerusalem in a "deliberate attack" that killed one person and injured nine others, including several police officers.