World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Bali's deputy police chief says some officers have made admissions about the alleged extortion of a group of Australian men whose bucks' party was raided on the resort island.

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BANGKOK - A foreign man described as a "main suspect" in the deadly Bangkok bombing has been arrested, with Thai police calling him an important figure in the network that staged the attack.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has called on priests to pardon women who have abortions, and the doctors who perform them, during the upcoming Jubilee year - overruling hardline traditionalists within the Catholic Church.

BUDAPEST - Hundreds of migrants have been in a stand-off with police outside Budapest's main rail station as new figures highlighted the unprecedented scale of the European Union's refugee crisis.

VIENNA - Austrian police, on high alert for people-smugglers since last week's truck tragedy, say they rescued 24 young Afghan migrants crammed inside a van that was like a "prison cell on wheels".

BEIRUT - Lebanese police have ejected protesters who occupied part of the environment ministry to press the minister to resign, raising tensions over their campaign against uncollected garbage and a stagnant political class.

BEIJING - An explosion at a chemical plant in China has killed at least five people just weeks after a massive blast in a northern port killed 159.


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