The White House plans to release a summary of the implementation agreement to the interim nuclear deal between world powers and Iran later Thursday.

The full text, which instructs the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) how to implement the deal, has also been made available to a restricted audience of lawmakers and aides in Congress, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

A Sudanese migrant froze to death in Estonia in an ill-fated illegal crossing of the EU-Russia border, police said Thursday.

The 54-year-old man and two other surviving Sudanese men crossed a river from Russia to reach Estonia, a member of the European Union since 2004, police spokesman Kerly Peitel told Agence France Presse, noting temperatures had plunged below minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 Fahrenheit).

A unit of Chinese soldiers arrived in Mali on Thursday to strengthen the United Nations peacekeeping force in the troubled west African nation's rebel-infested north, sources told Agence France Presse.

A foreign diplomatic source in the capital Bamako said 245 Chinese troops would join a 150-strong contingent which has been stationed since December in Gao, the largest city in Mali's northern desert and the target of sporadic Islamist violence.

The European Union is preparing to normalize ties with Cuba following a decade-long dispute over human rights, EU diplomats said Thursday.

Experts from the EU's 28 member states this week "agreed on the principle of reviewing relations with Cuba," an EU diplomat told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Ukraine's pro-government lawmakers on Thursday pushed through parliament tough legislation in an apparent bid to suppress protests against President Viktor Yanukovych.

The opposition, which has been spearheading nearly two months of rallies against Yanukovych over his decision to ditch a key pact with the EU, branded the vote "a power grab."

British police arrested two women on Thursday on suspicion of terror offences, including one who was about to catch a flight to Istanbul, Scotland Yard said.

Counter-terror police arrested the women aged 26 and 27 "on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism", London's police headquarters said.

A motorcycle bomb attack blamed on Colombia's FARC rebels killed one person and wounded at least 25 after a local truce by the guerrillas ended, an official said Thursday.

The attack took place near a local government headquarters in the western municipality of Pradera, Mayor Adolfo Leon told the RCN radio station, noting that "of the 25 wounded, six are critical."

Nelson Mandela's grandson, a member of the South African parliament, appeared in court charged with assault on Thursday, after an altercation with a teacher late last year.

Prosecutors read out formal charges against Mandla Mandela, 39, accusing him of assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm as well as with pointing his gun, according to state broadcaster SABC.

Turkish authorities removed several prosecutors from key posts on Thursday in the latest fallout from the high-level corruption scandal plaguing the government.

The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), which is headed by Turkey's justice minister, said that 20 prosecutors were being reassigned including the chief Istanbul prosecutor Turhan Colakkadi.

French actress Julie Gayet has initiated a privacy suit against Closer magazine over its report that she was having an affair with President Francois Hollande, the magazine said Thursday.

Gayet, 41, is seeking 50,000 euros in damages and 4,000 euros in legal costs from the magazine over a report she claims breached France's privacy legislation.