DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh's High Court has granted bail for four months to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed on a corruption conviction and is awaiting an appeal. The court made the decision Monday, but…
ATHENS, Greece – Greek police are seeking the gun-toting owner of PAOK Thessaloniki and four others after they marched onto the soccer field following a disputed goal at the end of a league match. PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis walked onto…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – The Latest on a plane crash at the Kathmandu airport (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A police official says at least 38 people were killed and 23 injured when a plane crashed as it landed at the…
At least 38 people were killed when a Bangladeshi passenger plane crashed and burst into flames Monday as it landed at Kathmandu airport in Nepal, a police official said. At least 23 people were injured and 10 others are still…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the developments in Syria (all times local): 12:30 p.m. The largest rebel group in Syria's eastern Ghouta region, just outside the capital of Damascus, says it has agreed with Russian forces to have wounded people…
BEIRUT – Syrian TV says another group of civilians has left the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta outside Damascus through a corridor established by the Syrian army The state-run TV broadcast footage showing a small group of men, women and…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakian Interior Minister Robert Kalinak has resigned from his post amid the crisis following the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee. Kalinak's resignation was a key requirement of a junior party in the government to…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a late-night compromise with his ultra-Orthodox coalition allies that could avert early elections. A parliamentary committee approved a bill on Monday to extend military draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox men, but the…
VATICAN CITY – In five years, the world has gotten to know Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina who was so self-deprecating that when he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica on March 13,…
VATICAN CITY – The humble empathy and the ease with which he walks in others' shoes has won Pope Francis admirers around the globe and confirmed his place as a consummate champion of the poor and disenfranchised. But as he…
Emergency crews responded to a passenger plane that crashed as it landed at Nepal's Kathmandu airport. Casualties feared. (Saroj Basnet) A Nepalese airport official said Monday that a passenger plane crashed as it landed at Kathmandu airport, prompting a massive…
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian news website says Revolutionary Guard troops have thwarted a twin suicide attack near the Pakistan border, killing both would-be bombers. Monday's report by Sepahnews.com says the assailants tried to attack a border outpost belonging to…
BRUSSELS – The European Union has prolonged sanctions against senior Russian officials, lawmakers and military officers for a further six months over alleged meddling in Ukraine. EU headquarters said in a statement Monday that "an assessment of the situation did…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – An airport official says a US-Bangla Airlines passenger plane has crashed as it landed at Kathmandu airport. It wasn't immediately clear if there were fatalities. Clouds of thick smoke could be seen rising from the plane, which…
MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa – Congo's top opposition leader and other figures opposed to longtime President Joseph Kabila are meeting in South Africa to build a coalition ahead of long-delayed elections in the turbulent, resource-rich country. Delegates gathering at a resort…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The BBC says its journalists will appeal for the first time to the United Nations over what the British broadcaster describes as the "persecution and harassment" of those affiliated with its Persian service by Iran.…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has sworn in the newly elected members of the Senate, including for the first time a woman from the marginalized Hindu minority. Krishna Kumari who hails from the so-called untouchables — the lowest in the caste system…
BANGKOK – Amnesty International says Myanmar's military is building installations on land in villages that had been occupied by Muslim Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh after their homes were burned down in what analysts charge was a campaign of…
BERLIN – Austrian police say they have no information yet on the motives of a man who attacked a guard outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna and was then fatally shot. Police said the guard, a 23-year-old Austrian soldier,…
SYDNEY – Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that it doesn't matter whether or not China has a change in leadership, the culture and the system will always remain the same. Ai's comments came a day after China's rubber-stamp…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says that authorities have recovered the "black box" from a Turkish private jet that crashed in Iran while traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, killing all 11 people onboard. Monday's…
SRINAGAR, India – A gunbattle between Indian troops and rebels early Monday killed three insurgents in disputed Kashmir and triggered more anti-India protests and clashes, officials said. The fighting began before dawn after government forces raided a cluster of homes…
TOKYO – Japan's Finance Ministry has acknowledged doctoring documents in a widening scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife that has rattled his government. The doctored documents related to the 2016 sale of state land to a school operator…
BEIJING – South Korea's national security director is holding meetings in Beijing following word of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Chung Eui-yong was briefing top…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says insurgents have taken control of a district headquarters in western Farah province. Fared Bakhtawer, the head provincial council in Farah, said Monday that initial information shows around 15 security forces were killed and…
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said in a new film he ordered – but later pulled back – the shooting down of a passenger plane in 2014 after officials believed a man with a bomb was targeting the Winter Olympic Games…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian voters turned to right-wing parties critical of the country's peace deal with the main leftist rebels and knocked the current president's party down in congressional elections, raising questions about the future of the accord. Sunday's vote…
BEIJING – China's steel mills, a target of U.S. President Donald Trump's ire, are their industry's 800-pound gorilla: They supply half of world output, so every move they make has a global impact. Trump responded last week with a blanket…
VIENNA – Police say an Austrian attacker was shot and killed by the guard he wounded outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna. Police spokesman Harald Soros said the guard was wounded in the arm before he shot the attacker…
A private jet similar to the aircraft seen here crashed in Iran, killing a socialite and her bachelorette party, according to reports. (AP Photo/Yigit Cicekci, File) A Turkish private jet flying a wealthy socialite and her bachelorette party from the…
HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese police have arrested a senior police official suspected of involvement in an international gambling ring as the ruling Communist Party pushes its crackdown on graft. The Ministry of Public Security said on its website that the…
HONG KONG – Final results show Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates have won back two of four seats in a crucial by-election in the semiautonomous Chinese region. According to Monday's tally, the opposition was not able to recapture all its territory,…
ATHENS, Greece – A disputed goal at the end of a Greek league match on Sunday between leader AEK and title rival PAOK led to a pitch invasion by one of the team owners, who appeared to be carrying a…
ROME – A Spanish humanitarian group says it has rescued three migrant brothers who set out from Libya in a rubber dinghy to seek leukemia treatment for one of them. Riccardo Gatti of the aid group Proactiva Open Arms told…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a rudimentary or homemade explosive device was responsible for a tourist ferry blast that injured 26 people Feb. 21 in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen. But Deputy Attorney General Arturo Elias…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a rudimentary or homemade explosive device was responsible for a tourist ferry blast that injured 26 people Feb. 21 in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen. But Deputy Attorney General Arturo Elias…
TEHRAN, Iran – A Turkish private jet flying a group of young women from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul crashed Sunday in heavy rain in a mountainous region of Iran, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said. Days…
BITOLA, Macedonia – Thousands of people have marched in southern Macedonia to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the deportation and eventual death of almost the country's entire Jewish population. Public officials, civic group representatives and relatives of former Macedonian Jews…
ORESTIADA, Greece – Over one thousand people have gathered in northeastern Greece to demand the return of two Greek soldiers who have been held in neighboring Turkey since the beginning of March. The rally in the town of Orestiada on…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan state television reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in Islamabad as the head of a politico-economic delegation. During his three-day visit, which began Sunday, Zarif will hold talks with the Pakistani prime minister,…
TEHRAN, Iran – The official news agency of Iran's judiciary says a British-Iranian national has been sentenced to six years in prison on spying charges. The report Sunday night by the Mizan news agency did not elaborate or identify the…
JERUSALEM – An Israeli government official says a last-ditch attempt to approve the reunification of hundreds of families split between Israel and Ethiopia has fallen through. The families are relying on the Cabinet to agree to fund the immigration of…
WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of Poles have gathered in Warsaw to express their solidarity with Jews who perished in the Holocaust, were expelled from Poland 50 years ago or feel targeted by a new wave of anti-Semitism today. Speakers at…
SALISBURY, England – The health implications of the nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his adult daughter broadened Sunday when British officials conceded that limited traces of contamination were found in a restaurant and a pub in Salisbury,…
JERUSALEM – Israel's prime minister is holding emergency negotiations with key coalition partners in hopes of averting a crisis that has threatened to plunge the country into early elections. Members of Benjamin Netanyahu's government have been quarreling over whether to…
NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, Kenya – On the outskirts of a sprawling reserve of Kenyan grasslands where endangered animals roam wild, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lavished praise on an American-funded forensics lab that tracks down elephant-poachers for prosecution, and…
KIGALI, Rwanda – At least 16 people were killed in Rwanda and 140 others injured when lightning struck a Seventh Day Adventist church in the country's south, said a provincial governor. The churchgoers were injured and rushed to a nearby…
ROME – Pope Francis is visiting a Catholic organization that has mediated peace accords in Africa and helps Syrian refugees to reach Italy safely. Francis arrived Sunday afternoon at the Sant'Egidio Community in Rome, a short drive from the Vatican,…
TEHRAN, Iran – The Latest on the Turkish plane crash in Iran (all times local): 7:45 p.m. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says at least 11 people were on board the small Turkish private plane that crashed. That's according to…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian news agencies are reporting that a Turkish plane traveling in Iran's air space has crashed. News website asriran.com is quoting the country's Civil Aviation Organization spokesman, Reza Jafarizadeh, as saying it was a private jet that…
