The U.N. rights chief on Monday made a rousing appeal to confront the world's "race-baiting bigots" at the first-ever summit on refugees and slammed the United Nations for failing to end the war in Syria.

World governments pledged at the summit to scale up efforts to confront the biggest refugee crisis since World War II, adopting a political declaration that human rights groups have criticized as almost meaningless.

India's prime minister on Monday summoned top security advisers to thrash out a response to a deadly raid on a Kashmir army base blamed on militants from Pakistan, amid calls for tough action against the nuclear-armed nation.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Monday that there would be no repeat of last year's "chaotic" border opening to refugees, after a stinging loss for her party in Berlin elections.

At least eight people were killed outside a church in a suspected Boko Haram attack carried out by gunmen on bicycles in northeast Nigeria, local residents said on Monday.

U.S. police on Monday wounded and captured an Afghan-born American wanted over bombings in New York and New Jersey, which stoked terror fears less than 50 days before the country's presidential election.

The bombings Saturday came on the same day as a separate stabbing rampage in Minnesota carried out by a Somali-American with possible links to the Islamic State extremist group.

A U.S. air raid has killed eight Afghan policemen who were battling the Taliban, officials said Monday, the first apparent "friendly fire" incident since American forces were given greater powers to strike at insurgents.

China slammed the European Union's parliament Monday for receiving the Dalai Lama, saying the move could damage relations between the EU and the world's second largest economy.

China is "disappointed to the point of despair" with Japan's conduct in the South China Sea, it said Monday, after Tokyo announced it may set up training patrols with the U.S. in the contested region.

The European Union will make Brexit "very painful" for Britain, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in an interview published Monday, adding that London was "bluffing" over its pre-Brexit negotiating power.

Two DR Congo policemen died on Monday in clashes between opposition supporters and the police and a giant protest calling for President Joseph Kabila to step down this year was banned, the government spokesman said.