BEIRUT – The Latest on developments related to Syria (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Turkey's foreign minister says his government hopes that a cross-border military offensive in a Syrian Kurdish-held enclave will end before May. Speaking during a joint news…
NEW DELHI – A shipping line official says one of the 23 crewmembers evacuated from a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that caught fire in the Arabian Sea has died of severe burns. The chief operating officer of A.P. Moller-Maersk, Soren Toft,…
BERLIN – German prosecutors say they have issued a formal arrest warrant for a 17-year-old Iraqi citizen who was allegedly planning to commit an extremist attack in either Germany or Britain. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Deday A., who was…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's prime minister is meeting with a top European Union official in Brussels as part of efforts to avert potential EU sanctions over a reform of Poland's judiciary. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's office tweeted Thursday that he…
BEIJING – A Chinese general says China needs to build defensive structures on islands in the South China Sea to display its claim to sovereignty over virtually the entire crucial waterway. However, the vice president of China's Academy of Military…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have upheld most of the convictions of a former Congolese vice president for interfering with witnesses during his war crimes trial, and ordered the original trial chamber to review…
BUJUMBURA, Burundi – A Rwandan official says more than 2,500 Burundian refugees in Congo are seeking shelter in Rwanda amid fears they could be forcibly repatriated back home by Congolese authorities. Jean Claude Rwahama, a refugee official in Rwanda, said…
BERLIN – A prominent member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, will resign from his party posts following several controversial and anti-Muslim remarks about migrants. The party board of the AfD in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt said…
BEIJING – The Bank of China has pledged at least 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) to create a massive giant panda conservation park in southwestern Sichuan province, the forestry ministry said Thursday. The Sichuan branch of the central bank signed…
CAIRO – Egypt's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the U.N. human rights chief's critical statements on what he described as the "pervasive climate of intimidation" in Egypt ahead of the presidential election later this month. The ministry said in a…
BRUSSELS – With warmer weather on the horizon, the European Union is weighing more ways to prevent migrants from reaching its shores but remains deeply divided over how to share responsibility for those people entitled to stay. EU interior ministers…
TIRANA, Albania – Albanian authorities say that heavy rain has caused flooding in more parts of country, with landslides damaging many roads. The defense ministry said Thursday that about 2,800 hectares (6,900 acres) of agricultural land and grasslands in the…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland is marking 50 years since the start of student protests that were exploited by the communist regime to purge Jews from the party and from Poland. The result was the expulsion of 13,000 Jews, among them…
BAGHDAD – A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the Islamic State group's leader on terrorism charges and sentenced her to death. The spokesman of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement on Thursday that Abu…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The chairman of the African Union Commission says he considers President Donald Trump's slur about Africa to be an incident "of the past." Chairman Moussa Faki and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were questioned during…
ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has called on Arab nations to work together to fight illegal migration and the networks that feed them. In a message read to a meeting in Algiers of Arab interior ministers, Abdelaziz Bouteflika…
BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has tweeted that he will not be a part of the next government. Gabriel wrote Thursday that the heads of the Social Democratic Party had informed him of the decision and that he…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Latest on the murder trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen (all times local): 9:45 a.m. The trial has started of Danish inventor Peter Madsen, accused of tying up, torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall during…
Two missiles fired from a U.S. drone hit a militant facility in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgents, including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, two Pakistani intelligence officials and local Taliban commanders said on Thursday. The strike,…
CAIRO – Egyptian airport officials say 100 Egyptians have landed in Cairo after being deported from Germany over residency permit violations, the first action of its kind from Berlin. The officials say the Egyptians arrived on a Wednesday flight from…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – They could have run into each other sipping coffee in the lobby, perhaps at the bar at Ethiopia's finest hotel. But U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov don't appear destined…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish inventor Peter Madsen stands accused of tying up and torturing Swedish reporter Kim Wall before he either cut her throat or strangled her during a trip on his private submarine in August. Madsen, 47, whose trial…
BEIRUT – The International Committee of the Red Cross says a second convoy that was supposed to carry aid to the besieged rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus has been postponed because of the violence. Ingy Sedky, the ICRC spokeswoman in…
BERLIN – Austrian police say they have detained a 23-year-old suspect in connection with knife attacks in Vienna in which four people were injured. Police spokesman Patrick Maierhofer said in a statement Thursday the male suspect was detained shortly after…
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani intelligence officials and local Taliban say two missiles fired from a U.S. drone hit a militant facility in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgents, including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban. The…
KANDY, Sri Lanka – Residents say Buddhist mobs are still sweeping through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka's central hills, destroying stores and restaurants despite a curfew, a state of emergency and heavy deployment of security forces. Mohamed Ramzeen, who owns…
RABAT, Morocco – For 23 years, Khadija says her husband raped her, nearly every day. And her case is far from unique, according to counselors at the Annajda Center in Rabat, one of over 1,000 associations in Morocco working to…
MANILA, Philippines – Hundreds of women activists in pink and purple shirts protested against President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines on Thursday, as marches and demonstrations in Asia kicked off International Women's Day. Protest leaders sang and danced in a…
UNITED NATIONS – The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women says the global spotlight on sexual harassment and abuse and the punishment of some powerful men who had been "untouchable" is an important moment — but it's…
BEIJING – China says it wants a more active role for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an eight-nation grouping dominated by Beijing and Moscow. Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday said Beijing will work with the other members to "take a…
MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine House committee has voted overwhelmingly to proceed with a case to impeach the Supreme Court chief justice, who has vowed to fight the ouster move. The justice committee voted 38-2 Thursday to rule there was…
CUCUTA, Colombia – As Venezuela's economic crisis worsens, rising numbers of its people are fleeing in a burgeoning refugee crisis that is drawing alarm across Latin America. Independent groups estimate as many as 3 million to 4 million Venezuelans have…
MANILA, Philippines – The Latest on International Women's Day (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Students at China's prestigious Tsinghua University are celebrating International Women's Day with banners making light of a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap term limits for the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Canada says the widow of an Iranian-Canadian university professor who died in custody in Tehran in disputed circumstances has been stopped from traveling abroad. In a tweet early Thursday morning, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia…
KABUL, Afghanistan – Authorities in Afghanistan say an attack on a district police headquarters in Kandahar province killed one police officer and wounded five. Provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq said the attack on Wednesday night in Spin Boldak district…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council condemned violence during nationwide protests in Congo last month against President Joseph Kabila's extended rule and called on all parties Wednesday to ensure that a long-delayed presidential election takes place Dec. 23. Kabila's…
BEIJING – Tibetan monitoring groups say a man has set himself on fire and died in western China's Sichuan province in the first self-immolation protest among Tibetans this year. The International Campaign for Tibet said Tsekho Tugchak, said to be…
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's president says many "critical moments" still lie ahead to end the nuclear crisis despite North Korea's recent outreach to Seoul and Washington. Moon Jae-in spoke on Thursday morning before two senior Seoul officials were…
MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has issued a new travel alert for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen, where an explosion on a tourist ferry injured 26 people last month. The embassy says in an…
A man pushes a cart past damaged buildings in Syria this week. (Reuters) The United Nations Security Council renewed calls on Wednesday to implement a 30-day cease-fire across Syria after a resolution to deliver humanitarian aid during that period remained…
An officer blocks a street when police is on the hunt for an attacker after several people have been injured in a knife attack on the streets of Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) Several people have…
President Trump may have just forced North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un to come the negotiating table…with maybe just a little help from Twitter. Experts say that Trump’s strategy dealing with the rogue regime – a combination of tweeted warnings…
MEXICO CITY – Mexico City officials say intentional sabotage may be contributing to recurrent water shortages that have caused protests on the streets of the city of 9 million people. In recent weeks, officials have blamed dry faucets in many…
PREKAZ, Kosovo – Hundreds of Kosovo ethnic Albanians have gathered in a western town to celebrate the Night of Fires, the launch of the armed resistance to late Serbian Slobodan Milosevic's regime 20 years ago. People holding lit torches assembled…
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The Latest on Sierra Leone's election (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Authorities in Sierra Leone's capital report clashes have broken out amid political tensions on Election Day. Voters were choosing between 16 candidates, though the skirmishes…
Several people have been injured in a knife attack in Vienna on Wednesday, Austrian news outlets reported. Three people are "seriously injured," according to the Austria Press Agency. Police are reportedly searching for a "man who randomly attacked pedestrians near…
BERLIN – Austrian media report that several people have been injured in a knife attack on the streets of Vienna. News website heute.at reports that the attack happened Wednesday evening, when a man with a knife randomly attacked pedestrians near…
The North Koreans have a term that the regime tells them how to characterize Americans. It is: "American bastards." "When we are describing American people, they never spoken the word, 'American people.' It's ‘American bastards,’" said Seongmin Lee, a 31-year-old…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina's state news agency says the last military president from the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship has died at age 90. Telam is reporting that Reynaldo Bignone died Wednesday at a military hospital in Buenos Aires. He had…
ATHENS, Greece – A Greek prosecutor has charged seven men with alleged membership in a violent neo-Nazi group linked to a series of arson attacks on far-left and migrant-related targets. All seven Greeks were formally accused Wednesday of membership in…
