A French court on Tuesday threw out a case brought by a mother trying to sue the government for failing to stop her teenage son from leaving to join jihadists in Syria.

The boy was 16 when he left with three others from the town of Nice in southern France in December 2013, taking a plane to Turkey and then traveling overland to Syria. 

Mali asked the United Nations on Tuesday to take on drug traffickers and roll out an emergency aid package after a peace deal was signed to end violence in the north.

Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop told the Security Council that the U.N. peacekeeping force must help restore state authority in the north after an Islamist takeover in 2013 plunged the country into turmoil.

Nearly 6,000 demonstrators rallied in the Armenian capital on Tuesday after riot police used water cannon to break up an earlier protest against electricity price hikes.

Waving national flags and chanting "Shame!" and "No to robbery!" angry protesters flooded Yerevan's central Freedom Square Tuesday evening before staging a march towards the presidential palace cordoned off by riot police, an AFP journalist reported from the scene.

New York will get nearly 1,300 extra police officers to strengthen counter-terrorism efforts, and improve neighborhood policing and relations with local communities, the mayor has said.

The announcement marks a U-turn for progressive Democrat, Bill de Blasio, who said repeatedly he did not see a need for more officers, and comes after an increase in murders and shootings.

Prosecutors in Spain Tuesday called for the head of Rwanda's intelligence service Karenzi Karake to be handed over to Spanish authorities after his arrest in London, a judicial source said.

British police detained the 54-year-old at Heathrow airport on Saturday on a Spanish arrest warrant issued in an investigation of alleged crimes during the Rwanda conflict in the 1990s.

The United States and China candidly laid bare their differences Tuesday as they grapple with managing future ties, with both sides insisting confrontation was not in the world's interests.

At the start of key annual talks, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden sharply warned Beijing that the world's waterways which carry 80 percent of the planet's commerce must remain open for trade.

Italy denied any involvement on Tuesday in the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" of an Egyptian imam kidnapped in Milan in 2003 on charges of terrorist connections.

Abu Omar was kidnapped "exclusively" by CIA agents and "was never in the hands of the Italian authorities," Paola Accardo, lawyer for the Italian government, told the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. 

A French court on Tuesday freed Yoo Som-Na, daughter of a South Korean tycoon blamed for a ferry disaster that killed more than 300 people, her lawyers told AFP, after Seoul had requested her extradition.

"Taking into account the political context, the threats to the presumption of innocence... [the court] decided to release" Yoo while waiting for further information, said her lawyers in a joint statement.

Burundi's ruling party said Tuesday it had boycotted the restart of U.N.-led talks hoped to broker peace between rival parties following weeks of violence and ahead of elections on Monday.

The troubled central African nation has been in crisis since late April over President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial bid to stand for a third consecutive five-year term.

A 25-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who beheaded an elderly woman during a 45-minute rampage through London back gardens was on Tuesday found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity and locked up indefinitely.

Nicholas Salvador, a six-foot-tall cage fighter, believed that 82-year-old Palmira Silva was Nazi leader Adolf Hitler or a demon when he stabbed her repeatedly before cutting off her head and holding it aloft.