Judging by the resoluteness of U.S. officials' tone, the chances President Barack Obama will pardon Edward Snowden appear very slim, and close to none before November's presidential election.

The former National Security Agency contractor, who released thousands of classified documents in 2013 revealing the vast U.S. surveillance put in place after the September 11, 2001 attacks, currently lives in Russia.

A British man accused of hacking into thousands of United States government computers can be extradited to the U.S. to face trial, a court in Britain ruled Friday.

Belgian authorities on Friday detained two people for questioning following anti-terror raids in the capital Brussels and southeastern Belgium, the federal prosecutor's office said.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, a widely respected former Italian president who played a crucial role in Italy's adoption of the euro, has died at 95, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced Friday.

Canada will send more than 450 troops to Latvia from around May 2017 as part of NATO's efforts to reinforce its presence in the Baltics in the face of a resurgent Russia.

The Western defence alliance had in July endorsed the deployment of four battalions of around 1,000 troops each in Poland and the Baltic states, the largest reinforcement of its eastern flank since the Cold War.

A Spanish woman on her honeymoon was killed in an explosion on a Bali tourist boat that left another foreigner dead and about 20 injured, officials said Friday.

Hillary Clinton has returned to the White House campaign trail seeking to regain the momentum lost to Donald Trump during her battle with pneumonia, especially in the country's key battleground states.

Clinton rejoined the race at a critical moment, as polls show the lead she has held over Trump narrowing sharply. One survey gave her just a two-point margin, down sharply in a matter of weeks.

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others as they attended Friday prayers at a mosque in a northwestern Pakistani tribal area, officials said.

The bombing took place in the village of Butmana in the Mohmand tribal district bordering Afghanistan where the army has been fighting against Taliban militants.

A London-bound passenger train has hit a landslip triggered by heavy rain and derailed, causing no injuries but sparking major travel disruption.

Train operator London Midland says part of the train came off the tracks and hit an oncoming service near Watford Junction, 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of London, Friday morning.

Edward Snowden, in exile in Moscow after leaking U.S. National Security Agency documents, said Friday he intends to vote in the U.S. presidential election, but did not say which candidate he favors.

"I will be voting," Snowden said, speaking at a conference in Athens by video link from Moscow.