A Pakistani court refused bail Wednesday to an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover after she was arrested in Pakistan and accused of being one of thousands of refugees using fake ID cards.

Swiss officials say police are conducting a raid in a mosque in the northern city of Winterthur.

Officials say that the police operation at An Nur mosque was continuing Wednesday morning, and that a regional prosecutor based in nearby Zurich would make a statement shortly.

Malaysia will buy four combat vessels from China in a "landmark" defence deal, Prime Minister Najib Razak said, signalling a potential strategic shift away from the United States. 

French authorities on Wednesday started moving out the remaining 1,500 unaccompanied children living near the razed "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais to reception centers around the country.

A first bus carrying 43 minors left the area around 8:30 am (0730 GMT), rapidly followed by a second one. More than 70 buses have been deployed for the operation.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye replaced her prime minister and finance minister Wednesday, as she scrambled to contain a damaging scandal over a close friend accused of meddling in state affairs

The top-level reshuffle, which also saw a new public safety minister, was the latest attempt to appease growing public anger with the president and her administration.

At least 18 people are dead and dozens missing after a boat carrying nearly 100 suspected migrant workers capsized and sunk in Indonesian waters, police said Wednesday.

Hundreds of schools were ordered to close indefinitely in Kashmir Wednesday after shelling by Indian and Pakistani troops in the disputed region killed 14 civilians in two days.

Authorities on the Indian-administered side of Kashmir, which is split between the two nations, said nearly 300 schools had been ordered to close from Wednesday morning, following the death of eight civilians on Tuesday in mortar shelling along the highly militarized border.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday sacked the commander of the peacekeeping force in South Sudan following a damning report showing failure to protect civilians during violence earlier this year in Juba.

The report from a U.N. special investigation found that a lack of leadership in the U.N. mission culminated in a "chaotic and ineffective response" during heavy fighting in the capital from July 8 to 11.

Opposition lawmakers suspended a "trial" of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday, ahead of talks with the government next week aimed at easing their country's deep political and economic crisis.

India said one more civilian had been killed late Tuesday by Pakistani mortar shelling in the disputed Kashmir region, taking the toll to eight, as tensions soar between the nuclear-armed rivals.