Iran summoned Nigeria's charge d'affaires to protest over the Nigerian army's deadly crackdown on pro-Iranian Shiites in the north of the country, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday.

The diplomat was told the foreign ministry on Monday that Iran "demands the Nigerian government immediately shed light on the incidents, treat the injured, and compensate for damages," IRNA said.

A Kenyan man has been charged with receiving Iranian training in Iraq to carry out attacks in the east African country.

Kenyan police say Yassin Sambai Juma, 25, was trained by Iran's elite Quds Force -- claims denied by Tehran, and was charged in court on Monday.

Mubashir Subhan was in the school auditorium, surrounded by friends, when the Taliban gunmen came crashing in. The first bullet grazed the back of his head, the second passed through his shoulder, and the third struck his left hand.

More than 150 lives were lost in the Peshawar school massacre of December 16, 2014, the deadliest extremist attack in Pakistan's history.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is "in a bind" in talks with European Union partners over changes he needs to avoid a so-called "Brexit", political scientist Thierry Chopin said on Tuesday.

There is consensus in Europe on the need to keep Britain in, but pressure from euroskeptics within Cameron's Conservative party has led him to make "unacceptable" demands, said Chopin, research director at the Robert Schuman Foundation in Paris.

David Cameron heads to Brussels Thursday hoping to breathe new life into Britain's bid to recast its ties with the European Union, which has hit problems over a plan to cut benefits for migrants.

With a referendum on leaving the EU due by the end of 2017, Cameron's plan to curb migrant benefits for the first four years they are in Britain faces stiff resistance from other leaders, who see it as discriminatory.

They came for a night fleeing fighting, hammering on the gates of the United Nations base as gunmen rampaged through South Sudan's capital killing and looting.

Two years later, over 185,000 people are sheltering inside U.N. camps across the country, still too frightened to leave.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was accused of being unfit to govern by his socialist challenger Pedro Sanchez Monday in an unusually ferocious election debate held before this week's general election.

Sunday's election is expected to be one of most closely fought contests in years as anger over corruption scandals and a long economic crisis has fueled the rise of newcomers that are threatening the traditional dominance of Rajoy's Popular Party (PP) and Sanchez's PSOE party.

America is coming up far short in its efforts to counter Islamic State propaganda, and the jihadists' messages often resonate with younger people, the U.S. military's top general warned Monday.

"I think we probably do get a C-minus or D in terms of doing it right now," General Joe Dunford told a national security forum in Washington.

Republican presidential hopefuls square off Tuesday in their latest debate, with maverick Senator Ted Cruz -- on the rise in key early primary state Iowa -- looking to rattle frontrunner Donald Trump.

With 50 days to go before the heartland US state casts the first votes in the nominations process, Trump, Cruz and seven other candidates will go toe to toe in Las Vegas in the final Republican presidential debate of the year.

Fewer journalists were imprisoned this year but the number held hostage jumped, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday in an annual report, with China and Egypt named the worst nations for jailing media workers.

The number of journalists put in prison fell 14 percent in 2015 from last year, to 153, RSF said, describing China as "the world's biggest prison for journalists", followed by Egypt.