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.