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In accordance with the Decision of the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers, which sets out the criteria for the European Capital of Culture, Bulgaria and Italy are the two Member States which will share the title in 2019. The final selection in Bulgaria took place in September, with the panel recommending that Plovdiv should be awarded the title.

A UN peacekeeper from Niger on patrol in Gao, Mali.

A scavenger picks through garbage in a low-income neighbourhood of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Separate attacks in Egypt have killed two police officers and wounded nearly a dozen other people.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram is in talks with the Nigerian government to release more than 200 girls abducted six months ago and negotiate a cease-fire to a deadly insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.

Kurdish forces have begun a second month of defending the northern Syrian border city of Kobani from Islamic State militants, working increasingly with a U.S.-led coalition to push back the ultra-radical group.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein briefs journalists during a press conference in Geneva.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met Wednesday in Vienna for talks on international efforts to limit Iran’s nuclear program.