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France will pull its troops and ambassador out of Niger, following a coup in the West African country in July.

A manual Macron, the French president, described Mohammed Bazoum, Niger's elected president, who is being held hostage by the coup's leaders.

As the quote, soul legitimate authority.

France, Niger's former colonial power, has around 1,500 troops in the country to counter jihadist terrorism.

Italy's Defence Minister criticized German plans to help finance charities that support migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.

It is the latest spat within the EU over how best to stem the influx of migrants from Africa and the Middle East.

Germany's foreign ministry counters that the country has a, quote, legal humanitarian and moral duty to help rescue people at sea.

Armenia's foreign minister told the UN General Assembly that international intervention was needed to stop ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Days after Azerbaijan seized control of the besieged enclave.

Armenian separatists said that the terms of a ceasefire agreed on Wednesday were being upheld as Azerbaijan moved to establish control of the region.

Russia, which has peacekeepers in the area, said the separatists had surrendered weapons, including over 800 guns.

In Kosovo, security forces surrounded about 30 gunmen who killed a police officer in what the authorities called a terrorist attack.

Three of the gunmen were also killed in the shooting, which took place in the north of the country near the Serbian border, where many Kosovo's are ethnic Serbs.

There has been unrest in the region since May when Kosovo Albanian mayors were installed in several towns, Serbia does not recognize Kosovo.

Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group, said that Israel killed two people, including one of its fighters, during a raid on a refugee camp near Turkarm, a city in the West Bank.

Israel described the raid as, quote, counterterrorism activity, violence in the territory has escalated in recent months.

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