EU-UKRAINE

MILAN - European leaders and Russia signaled cautious optimism over a peace deal for Ukraine after a high-level meeting in Milan on Friday, but emphasized details still need to be worked out. European leaders are pressing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to fully respect a cease-fire deal signed last month in Belarus, which has reduced by not completely ended hostilities in eastern Ukraine. SENT: 350 words, photos. 

KOSOVO-BOY RETURNED

PRISTINA, Kosovo - What started as a father and son trip to Kosovo's mountainous west in July turned into months of ordeal for Pranvera Zena Abazi. Her 8-year-old son who was taken to Syria by his jihadi father and returned this week following a shadowy operation involving Kosovo's spy agency.

EUROPE-EBOLA

MADRID - Two of four people suspected of having Ebola and admitted to hospitals in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests, officials said Friday. The government's Ebola monitoring committee said on its official Twitter account that the two were a person who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid's airport Thursday and a person who traveled in the same ambulance used to hospitalize infected Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero on Oct. 6. Both had developed fevers. They will be tested a second time within 72 hours. 

SERBIA-ATTACKS

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbian police say they have detained one person suspected in a spate of attacks on Albanian-owned businesses in northern Serbia after a soccer brawl this week at a game between Serbia and Albania. Police said Friday they are searching for other suspects involved in several attacks on bakeries, fast-food stands and other businesses owned by the country's minority ethnic Albanians. Senior official Aleksandar Nikolic says the attacks "will not be tolerated." 

GERMANY-YUGOSLAV AGENTS

BERLIN - The former head of Yugoslavia's secret service and a one-time subordinate have gone on trial in Germany over the 1983 killing of a Yugoslav dissident in Bavaria. Zdravko Mustac and former subordinate Josip Perkovic, who later created independent Croatia's spy agency, are both charged with being accessories to the murder of Stjepan Djurekovic. The dissident was shot and beaten on July 28, 1983, in a garage in Wolfratshausen, near Munich. 

BRITAIN-BOOK DISPUTE

LONDON - Prominent writers say free speech is under threat after a British court halted publication of a celebrity's memoir of child abuse because his ex-wife argued that it would harm their son. Three appeals court judges last week temporarily stopped publication of the book, which has already been printed and was due to be published this fall. 

BRITAIN-ECONOMY

LONDON - The Bank of England's chief economist is signaling that interest rates could remain at record lows for longer than he predicted even three months ago. Andrew Haldane told business leaders Friday that even though Britain's economic growth rate is the envy of many G-7 nations, growth in real wages has been in negative territory for all but three of the past 74 months.