The last buses out of the Calais "Jungle" left the French camp Thursday, carrying 291 migrants, mostly couples and women with children, to shelters around the country.

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday accused the United Nations of "scapegoating" Kenyan soldiers for the failings of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

A Greek prosecutor on Thursday began looking into a demand by Turkey for the extradition of eight military officers who fled to Greece following the failed July coup in their country, a judicial source said.

The first trials of the thousands of suspects arrested in the wake of Turkey's failed July 15 coup aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will begin in early 2017, the chief Ankara prosecutor said on Thursday.

A Belgian court Thursday backed the eventual extradition to France of the suspect in a deadly attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014, prosecutors said.

Austria on Thursday sent 60 troops to Hungary's border with non-EU Serbia as Vienna's defense minister warned that the EU's migrants deal with Turkey was "showing cracks."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused Germany of being one of the worst countries in the world for harboring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the July 15 failed coup.

Venezuela's opposition began a tense truce Wednesday with President Nicolas Maduro, but supporters accused it of betraying them amid warnings the strategy might backfire.

With Pope Francis' blessing, Maduro and top opposition leaders have agreed to sit down to Vatican-mediated talks starting November 11, seeking an exit from a nasty political crisis and economic melt-down.

U.S. airstrikes early Thursday killed at least 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children, in the volatile northern province of Kunduz, officials said, after a Taliban assault left two American soldiers dead.

Just five days before the bitter presidential campaign comes to a head a new poll Thursday showed a tightening race, with Hillary Clinton's edge over Donald Trump shrinking and few voters saying they remain undecided.

The New York Times/CBS News poll showed the Democratic White House hopeful with 45 percent to her Republican rival's 42, a three-point lead that had diminished from the more comfortable nine-point margin she had weeks earlier.