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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discuss global issues on the margins of the 7th Vibrant Gujarat Summit, India January 2015.

A destroyed house in Ahy Badr in the town of Mizdah in the Nafusa mountains in Libya after tribal conflict in March 2013.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has confirmed that an operation is under way to capture the two brothers suspected of shooting 12 people to death Wednesday at the Paris headquarters of the Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The United States says it will close more than a dozen bases in Europe in a move the Defense Department expects to save $500 million per year when fully implemented, with no impact on the military’s ability to respond across Europe.

In Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has conceded defeat as challenger Maithripala Sirisena consolidated an early lead in the presidential election. Political analysts say minority groups played a key role in ending the decade-long rule of the once-powerful leader, whose popularity had plummeted in recent years.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launches report at UN General Assembly.

The French prime minister says there have been "several arrests" in the search for two suspects in Wednesday's shooting spree that left 12 people dead at the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has talks in Berlin Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They are expected to focus on security and extended economic aid to the cash-strapped Kyiv government.

Syrian refugees arrive across the border into Jordan.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemns the appalling and “cold-blooded crime” committed by terrorists who attacked the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.