Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Saturday called for dialogue with Russia to overcome tensions after the downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border for alleged violations of Turkey's airspace.

"Of course we have different views but we need to continue to talk in order to narrow our differences," Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by the state-run Anatolia news agency.

One of the perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks visited London and Birmingham earlier this year to meet people suspected of plotting terror activity in Britain, The Guardian reported Saturday.

The newspaper, citing counter-terrorism officials, said the unnamed attacker had managed to enter Britain and travel to the nation's two biggest cities, before heading back to continental Europe undetected despite heightened security.

President Barack Obama insisted that the United States "will not be terrorized" and renewed his call for tighter gun control measures in a weekly address Saturday that focused on the deadly attack in California.

As it became increasingly likely that the San Bernardino shooting spree that left 14 people dead was inspired by the Islamic State group, Obama vowed that investigators would "get to the bottom" of how and why the rampage occurred.

An ex-Seleka rebel leader said Friday he would not allow elections due later this month to take place in the regions of the Central African Republic under his control.

The country is preparing to hold a referendum on December 13 on a proposed new constitution ahead of nationwide polls on December 27, following years of violence after a bloody coup in 2013.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Seoul Saturday, accusing President Park Geun-Hye of sacrificing workers and farmers for large businesses and rewriting history textbooks to glorify her father's authoritarian rule.

An estimated crowd of 30,000 people, many of them wearing masks in defiance of Park's call for a ban on masking-wearing during protests, marched through the city center behind a banner reading "Resign Park Geun-Hye", chanting slogans.

The main islands of the Seychelles began voting on Saturday in a presidential election which sees incumbent James Michel facing his first serious challenge after two terms in office.

Although voting on more remote islands began on Thursday, the main vote takes place on Saturday, with polls opening at 7:00 am (0300 GMT) on the three main islands of Mahe, Praslin and La Digue, home to most of the archipelago's estimated 91,000 citizens. Voting ends 12 hours later.

Poland's conservatives have only been back in power for a few weeks but they are already sowing alarm in the EU member state by trying to take control of any organ that could keep them in check.

The governing Law and Justice (PiS) party that won the October general election after eight years in opposition wasted no time in replacing the heads of the country's secret services.

West of the Afghan city of Maidan Shahr is a 40-kilometer stretch of paved highway known as "Death Road", where drivers say the country's ethnic Hazara minority are slaughtered by militants "like sheep and cows".

"The spit dries in our mouths from fear when we pass it," says Mohammad Hussain, who ferries passengers along the road from Kabul to Hazarajat, a region in the central highlands of Afghanistan where the Hazaras have traditionally settled.

It has been home to over 35,000 transiting migrants since May thanks to the generosity of local volunteers, but Rome's Baobab reception center is being shut down -- with a shopping mall among the options to take its place.

The former glassworks in a small street near the Italian capital's main stations was converted by an army of unpaid helpers to host tens of thousands of migrants who pass through on their way to countries further north.

Two huge black eyes stare out from the top of the tower block housing the National Assembly in Caracas, surveying the busy streets and the misty green mountains beyond.

Just the eyes -- but every Venezuelan knows whose.