By Matthias Blamont MERIGNAC, France (Reuters) - In a dank flat in southwestern France, 23-year-old Nasir stares at a living room wall bare except for a list of emergency numbers and contemplates life for his asylum-seeking family outside the migrant camp in Calais that had become home.

By Corina Pons CARACAS (Reuters) - They say they have not been paid for two months, have had their electricity cut and are sometimes banned from flights - and the laws they pass are blocked anyway. Venezuela's opposition lawmakers accuse the socialist government of sabotaging their work after winning a majority in congress last December.

By Eyanir Chinea and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro on Friday signed off on Venezuela's 2017 budget, drawing fire from the opposition-led National Assembly which accused the unpopular leftist leader of despotism for bypassing the legislature.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China on Friday expressed "great indignation and strong condemnation" of two Hong Kong lawmakers who raised the disputed issue of independence this week at their official swearing-in ceremony.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A weekend attack on a funeral gathering in Yemen widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes was "egregious," a senior U.S. official said on Friday in one of Washington's strongest condemnations of the incident.

By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin bomb suspect Jaber Albakr showed signs of radicalization in Germany, posting jihadi videos online before traveling to the Islamist-controled Syrian city of Idlib earlier this year, his brother told Reuters.

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - The head of Thailand's royal advisory council will stand in as regent while the country grieves over the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and awaits for his son to formally succeed him, the government said.

By Alistair Scrutton and Scott Malone STOCKHOLM/BOSTON (Reuters) - Bob Dylan, a powerful voice of social turmoil in the United States from the 1960s onward, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday in a surprise decision that made him the first singer-songwriter to win the honor.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military warned on Friday that "hostile forces" were seeking to spread online rumors about the ongoing reform of the armed forces, which will see 300,000 soldiers laid off, and admitted some of the rumors were having a damaging effect.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday extended his ceasefire with Marxist FARC rebels through the end of the year as he seeks to revive a peace accord to end five decades of war after voters rejected the hard-fought deal in a referendum.