The main suspect in the case of a car found near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris packed with gas cylinders had sworn allegiance to Islamic State jihadists, a source close to the investigation said Friday.

Police shot and arrested the 19-year-old woman with two accomplices south of Paris late Thursday. She is the daughter of the car's owner.

North Korea's latest and fifth nuclear test, if confirmed, is "deeply troubling and regrettable", the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said Friday.

"This is in clear violation of numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions and in complete disregard of the repeated demands of the international community," said Yukiya Amano, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

North Korea claimed Friday it has successfully tested a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on a missile, drawing condemnation from the South over the "maniacal recklessness" of young ruler Kim Jong-Un.

The blast at the Punggye-ri nuclear site was the North's fifth and most powerful yet at 10 kilotons -- approaching the might of the bomb that devastated Hiroshima in 1945, experts in Seoul said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday called North Korea's latest nuclear test "absolutely unacceptable".

Austria's state prosecutor said Thursday it had charged a Moroccan and an Algerian with intent to take part in the November 13 Paris attacks which left 130 people dead.

Uzbekistan's parliament approved Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as acting president on Thursday, a government website reported, in the clearest sign yet that he could take over long term after the death of veteran strongman Islam Karimov.

Hillary Clinton sought to polish her image Thursday as a strong leader with a command of major global challenges -- the IS jihadist group first among them -- while discrediting Republican rival Donald Trump as unfit for the White House.

With just 61 days before America chooses a new commander in chief, the Democrat delivered a withering takedown of the brash billionaire at a rare impromptu press conference, assailing his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as "scary" and insisting Trump has no real plan to defeat the Islamic State group.

Turkey has suspended more than 10,000 teachers over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Turkish official said on Thursday, following a purge of education staff in the wake of the failed coup bid.

Two football hooligans have been detained for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman wearing a niqab in Barcelona, police said Thursday, as anti-Islam hate crimes soar in Spain.

EU foreign policy supremo Federica Mogherini wants a Brussels headquarters for European "battlegroups" capable of mounting military interventions in crises.