Israeli troops early Tuesday destroyed 11 Palestinian homes in an area on the outskirts of Jerusalem divided from the city by Israel's separation wall, residents and an NGO said.

A Kenyan half-brother of President Barack Obama says he will vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and not the candidate his brother has endorsed, Hillary Clinton.

The Islamic State group said on Tuesday that two assailants who stormed a church in France and killed an elderly priest were its "soldiers," an IS-linked news agency reported.

The uncertainty created by Britain's vote to leave the European Union will slow the global economy into next year, the International Monetary Fund predicted Tuesday.

Suicide bombers killed at least seven people as they tried to blast their way into the African Union's main peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, police said.

Pope Francis has expressed his "pain and horror" at a hostage-taking at a church in France on Tuesday in which a priest was killed.

Millions of children will suffer disproportionately from the failed harvests and devastated livelihoods left behind by the El Nino weather phenomenon, Save the Children warned Tuesday.

French police "neutralized" two men armed with blades who had taken several people hostage in a church in northern France Tuesday, the police said.

Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained a veteran female reporter as part of the investigation into the failed July 15 coup after issuing warrants for over 40 journalists in a move that caused international concern.

Washington's top envoy John Kerry warned North Korea on Tuesday that it faced "real consequences" over its ongoing nuclear and missile testing programme.

A 22-nation Arab summit tackling the region's crises, despite splits over Iran and Turkey, was cut back to a single day Monday due to the absence of the heavyweight leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

An ISIS fighter carried out the suicide bombing that wounded a dozen people outside a music festival in the German town of Ansbach, the group's Amaq news agency said on Monday.

The head of a rare Saudi delegation to Israel and the occupied West Bank met a senior Israeli government official during his trip, Israel's foreign ministry told AFP on Sunday.

Kurdish militants killed three police officers in an attack on their convoy in southeastern Turkey on Monday, security officials said.

Bangladesh police Monday arrested a spinning mill worker for allegedly torturing a nine-year-old boy to death with an air compressor, the second such incident in less than a year, officers said.

Germany's federal criminal police have 410 leads on possible terrorists among refugees here, a local newspaper reported Monday.

French President Francois Hollande Monday sought to defuse a row over allegations his government tried to alter a security report after the Bastille Day massacre in Nice.

A German-Iranian teenager who shot dead nine people in Munich was a deranged lone gunman obsessed with mass killings who drew no inspiration from Islamist militancy, police said.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a checkpoint north of Baghdad on Monday, killing 10 people, officials said.

Human rights group Amnesty International said Sunday it had "credible evidence" of abuse and torture of people detained in sweeping arrests since Turkey's July 15 coup.

Increasingly frequent terrorist attacks are becoming a growing threat to the global economy, finance chiefs from the world's leading economies said Sunday.