The Non-Aligned Movement opens a summit Saturday in Venezuela, seeking relevance in a post-Cold War world as the crisis-torn host country seeks to lessen its growing isolation.

After years of fueling conspiracy theories, Republican White House nominee Donald Trump admitted Friday that President Barack Obama is an American as he tried to neutralize damaging charges of racism.

But he also stepped up attacks against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, accusing her of initiating the doubts about Obama and later raising the specter of violence against her again.

Six jail guards were sentenced to prison Friday for savagely beating an inmate at one of the largest municipal jails in the United States.

The former assistant chief of security who ordered the assault of Jahmal Lightfoot, who had been convicted of armed robbery, was jailed for six and a half years over the July 11, 2012 beating at New York's Rikers Island.

Heavily-armed Shabaab fighters seized control of a Somali town near the Kenyan border on Friday after an attack on an army base that left several soldiers dead, local officials and residents said.

Nigeria opened negotiations with Boko Haram over the release of the kidnapped Chibok girls last year, but the talks were derailed due to a split in the extremist group, a minister said Friday.

European Union leaders agreed at a post-Brexit summit Friday to forge a new "vision" within six months to restore faith and unity in the bloc as it plans a future without Britain.

Hillary Clinton's lead in the U.S. presidential race against Donald Trump is evaporating with just over 50 days to go until election day, as she stirs ever less enthusiasm in her own camp.

The Democrat's average lead since late August is just 1.8 points at the national level, a drop of four points in two weeks, and in several key states where the November election is likely to be decided, Trump is ahead.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande vowed Friday to make the European Union a "success", in a show of unity after a crucial summit to plot the bloc's post-Brexit future.

A former Manchester United stadium steward was jailed Friday for the Islamic State group-inspired murder of an imam who practiced a form of healing which he saw as "black magic" incompatible with Islam.

The United States on Friday designated French jihadist recruiter Omar Diaby a "global terrorist" subject to U.S. economic sanctions, the State Department said.

The 40-year-old al-Nusra Front militant, who also uses the name Omar Omsen, became notorious last year for faking his own death in order to leave Syria for surgery.