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Turkey's ruling party accepted the resignation of a deputy chair on Sunday after she was accused of selling shares worth tens of millions of dollars shortly before a stock market crisis.

Afghanistan said on Sunday that its forces killed 28 fighters and captured 32 others, including alleged members of the Islamic State group said to have crossed from neighboring Pakistan.

A deadlocked jury returns Monday for a fourth day of deliberations in the federal bribery trial of D.C. Council member Trayon White.

Strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people overnight and on Sunday, officials said, hours after Moscow rejected German calls to ease off its escalation toward NATO.

A bus carrying tourists from the Philippines toward the Oktoberfest festival in Munich veered off a highway and overturned on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring at least eight others, Germany's dpa news agency reported.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran won't back down on the terms of its ceasefire offer, "even if it comes to a doomsday war."

UK police said Sunday that five men arrested in the middle of the night near an air base used by the United States during its war against Iran are being held on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act.

Indonesian rescuers recovered more bodies from the wreck of a ferry that capsized in the Java Sea two weeks ago, bringing the death toll to 66.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is "completely healthy" and has recovered from injuries he sustained during an airstrike, according to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

British authorities evacuated homes in the western England town of Whelford early Sunday after arresting several men in connection with a suspected explosives plot.