German Chancellor Angela Merkel marks a decade in power Sunday facing the fight of her political life over her liberal stance on refugees, which provoked a party revolt, and fresh fears sparked by the Paris carnage.

In what just a few months ago would have been an unreserved celebration of the German leader at the height of her powers, the 10-year anniversary comes as the migrant crisis looks set to become the defining issue of Merkel's tenure.

Dumped from his parliamentary seat by Myanmar's voters, ruling party lawmaker Saw Hla Tun says he accepts defeat and is ready to help newcomers from Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy movement settle in -- an encouraging sign in a country known for its perfidious politics.

Deflated after their November 8 rout at the hands of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), MPs from the army-backed governing party returned glum-faced to parliament this week for a final lameduck session.

Two decades after the Dayton agreement brought an end to more than three years of devastating war in Bosnia, the unstable country remains locked in ethnic divisions that were cemented by the peace deal.

Agreed on November 21, 1995, in the U.S. military base in Dayton, Ohio, the accord formally split the former Yugoslav republic along ethnic lines, establishing a Serb-run entity, Republika Srpska, and the Muslim-Croat Federation.

Activists from Hong Kong's pro-democracy Umbrella Movement will be vying for seats at key local elections this weekend -- the first real test of public sentiment after mass protests gripped the city last year.

Dubbed "Umbrella soldiers" by local media, the campaigners have set their sights on the district-level polls, the first elections since the pro-democracy rallies brought parts of the city to a standstill for more than two months.

A bomb alert that forced a Polish airliner bound for Egypt to emergency land in Bulgaria early Thursday was a false alarm caused by a "drunken Pole talking rubbish," Bulgaria's premier said.

The warning by one of the 161 passengers on the flight headed for the Red Sea resort of Hurghada that there was a bomb on board was "completely false," Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said.

Much about Abdelhamid Abaaoud's path to armed Islamic radicalism remains mysterious.

In the words of Koen Geens, the Belgian justice minister, he mutated from a student at an upscale Brussels school into "an extremely professional commando," one seemingly able to slip across borders at will. Someone who openly mocked the inability of Western law enforcement agencies to catch him.

U.S. intelligence warned in May that the Islamic State had developed the capability to carry out the kind of attack claimed by the extremist group in Paris and explicitly picked out the alleged mastermind.

An assessment published by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, in coordination with the FBI, makes reference to and pictures Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of Friday's coordinated suicide bombings and shootings in the French capital that killed at least 129 people.

Police and protesters clashed Thursday outside a gathering of Asia-Pacific leaders who were meeting for a summit dominated by a U.S.-China tussle for regional influence.

The annual 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathering -- hosted this year by the Philippines -- is meant to forge trade unity but often finds itself sidetracked by other events.

Russia submitted a revised draft U.N. resolution Wednesday on fighting the Islamic State group that France said could be partially included in its own Security Council measure following the Paris attacks.

Agreement from the 15-member council on a single draft resolution that lays out the international approach to defeating IS extremists would mark a significant step after months of disagreements between the West and Russia

Human rights violations against migrants in Mexico have surged since the government launched an operation last year to curb illegal crossings at the country's southern border, non-governmental organizations said Wednesday.

The Frontera Sur (Southern Border) operation was launched in 2014 to stop illegal crossing at the southern border with Guatemala following a surge of unaccompanied migrant children arriving in the United States.