Turkey is littered with more than one million landmines that kill or severely injure one person every three days, a local lobby group said Friday.

Muteber Ogreten, head of A Turkey Without Landmines, said only one percent of mined areas had been cleared since 1998 and called on the government to act on promises to rid the country of the weapons by early next year.

Angola's government denied Friday a report that long-time President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is undergoing cancer treatment in Barcelona.

"President Dos Santos is in good health. He is on a private holiday visit to Spain," Foreign Minister Georges Chikoti told journalists in Luanda.

Italy's embattled Silvio Berlusconi, ousted from parliament and stripped of legal protection this week, risks arrest and a fresh trial after a court Friday accused him of corrupting witnesses in a sex case.

Judges in a Milan court said Berlusconi "gave, and still gives, money" to call girls to provide false testimony in his favor, one of whom included the then-underage dancer nicknamed "Ruby the Heart Stealer".

China on Friday scrambled fighter jets to monitor U.S. and Japanese aircraft which entered its new air defense zone, state media said.

"Several combat aircraft were scrambled to verify the identities" of US and Japanese aircraft entering the air defense identification zone that Beijing declared last weekend, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing air force spokesman Shen Jinke.

Eastern European foreign ministers warned Friday that British plans to restrict migrants' rights to unemployment benefits could damage the European Union.

The foreign ministers of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia said free movement was a "cornerstone" of EU integration, dismissing British fears that migrants from the region could be a drain on resources.

A suicide bomber wounded an Afghan lawmaker on Friday by detonating explosives hidden in his turban, officials said, in an attack that echoed the 2011 murder of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Hamidullah Tokhi, a lawmaker from Zabul province who previously served as the province's governor, was injured when the man entered his house in the capital Kabul and detonated the bomb.

Ukrainian authorities on Friday deployed hundreds of riot police to central Kiev where thousands of protesters gathered after President Viktor Yanukovych failed to salvage a key deal with the European Union.

In a tense atmosphere in the heart of the capital, some 5,000-6,000 demonstrators turned up in the central Independence Square, some chanting "Revolution."

A court in Zambia on Friday freed 54 separatists who were facing charges of treason for trying to create a new state called Barotseland in the west of the country.

The prosecution told magistrate Aridah Chulu that it had decided not to proceed with charges against the group, giving no further reason for its decision.

France said Friday it had replaced its ambassador in the Central African Republic, as it prepares to send more troops to help restore order in the strife-torn country.

"We have proposed the naming of a new ambassador to the Central African authorities," foreign ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told journalists.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Kabul on Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai as part of efforts to revive Afghanistan's peace process before NATO troops are withdrawn next year.

The one-day visit is Sharif's first since he took office in May and comes as Karzai is pitched in a public dispute with Washington over whether U.S. soldiers should remain in Afghanistan after 2014.