WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The governor of the central Papua New Guinea region hit by an earthquake this week says at least 15 people were killed and the toll may rise. Southern Highlands Governor William Powi told The Associated Press…
TORONTO – Community leaders say a suggestion by Toronto's police chief that an alleged serial killer would have been arrested sooner if the public had been more cooperative with investigators has angered LGBTQ residents and could worsen already strained relations.…
UNITED NATIONS – The four Western powers that are parties to the Iran nuclear deal are condemning Iran for violating an arms embargo on Yemen, a day after Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution that took aim at Tehran over…
Western intelligence sources have found that Iran has built a new permanent military base outside Syria’s capital city. (ImageSat International) EXCLUSIVE – Iran has built another permanent military base outside Syria’s capital city complete with hangers used to store missiles…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's new public security minister has fired the head of the country's federal police following public remarks he made on an investigation into President Michel Temer. A spokeswoman for security minister Raul Jungmann said Tuesday he…
SANTIAGO, Chile – The Vatican's sex crimes investigator interviewed several victims of sexually abusive members of the Marist Brothers religious order Tuesday, suggesting that his mandate has expanded beyond investigating alleged abuse cover-up by a lone Chilean bishop. Archbishop Charles…
JOHANNESBURG – South African media say a lion has killed a 22-year-old woman at a game lodge north of Pretoria. The African News Agency says the female lion mauled the woman in the Hammanskraal area on Tuesday. Nick Dollman of…
SKOPJE, Macedonia – Several thousand protesters have gathered in front of Macedonia's parliament in the capital of Skopje to demand the government call off talks with neighboring Greece on a decades-long name dispute. The protesters marched peacefully from the main…
LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria's government says it has set up a panel to investigate the abduction of 110 girls from their school last week by suspected members of the extremist Boko Haram group. Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used Brazilian passports with fake names, date of births and birth places to apply for visas in the 1990s in an attempt to visit Western countries while flying…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico's governor is demanding action from U.S. Congress after announcing that the Treasury Department has cut a nearly $5 billion disaster relief loan by more than half. Ricardo Rossello said Tuesday that federal officials…
RAMALLAH, West Bank – Israel is disputing a Palestinian teenager's account of being shot in the head, an incident which is said to have led his cousin, protest icon Ahed Tamimi, to slap Israeli soldiers. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai says…
MALE, Maldives – Amnesty International has urged authorities in the Maldives to immediately release officials detained during the state of emergency declared this month by President Yameen Abdul Gayoom. The group said in a statement Tuesday the detainees must be…
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Activists say Sudanese authorities have released dozens of people arrested for taking part in last month's protests against rising bread prices. Two protesters, Imtenan Ali el-Radi and Amal Habany, say they were released Tuesday from Kober prison,…
Orlando Boldewijn, 17, went missing one week ago after arranging to meet someone via a dating app. (politie.nl) The body of a 17-year-old boy from the Netherlands was discovered by police a week after he went missing. The teenager, Orlando…
GENEVA – An Iranian government minister facing European Union and Swiss sanctions for human rights violations has criticized U.S. and Saudi policies at the U.N.'s top human rights body, defying calls for him to stay away. Justice Minister Seyyed Alireza…
ANKARA, Turkey – A top U.N. official has expressed concerns over increased allegations of torture and ill-treatment in police custody in Turkey. Nils Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said Tuesday he was alarmed by allegations that people detained…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that conditions in Yemen are "catastrophic" after three years of war, with 22.2 million people needing aid. And the U.N. envoy is accusing both the Saudi-backed government and Shiite rebels of…
JERUSALEM – An Israeli court said Tuesday that it will delay consideration of whether to extradite a woman accused of sex crimes in Australia until a psychiatrist can review her case. Australia wants 54-year-old Malka Leifer extradited for allegedly sexually…
CARACAS, Venezuela – A prominent Venezuelan politician appears to be breaking ranks with the opposition coalition by challenging leader Nicolas Maduro in the upcoming presidential election. A campaign consultant for Henri Falcon says the ex-governor will declare his candidacy Tuesday.…
BRUSSELS – As a cold snap grips Europe, authorities in the Belgian capital Brussels have begun forcing homeless people off the streets and out of subzero temperatures. A mayor in the Etterbeek neighborhood has ordered that people be obliged to…
PARIS – The Walt Disney Company has announced a two billion-euro ($2.5 billion) expansion plan for Disneyland Paris, which will feature Marvel superheroes. The plan was unveiled Tuesday following a meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Disney chairman Robert…
CAIRO – Egypt's military says three soldiers, including an officer, were killed while fighting militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Military spokesman Col. Tamer al-Rifai says three other officers and four conscripts were wounded in the fighting on Tuesday, which killed…
AMMAN, Jordan – Officials say Jordan's first underwater archaeological survey has detected the outlines of a stone barrier, believed to be part of the centuries-old Red Sea port of Ayla, near the modern city of Aqaba. Ehab Eid, head of…
Saudi Arabia is opening soldier rank positions to women for the first time ever in regions including Riyadh, Mecca and al-Madina. In order to apply, Al Arabiya reports, women have to be of Saudi origin and between the ages of 25…
Experts say while the Olympics painted a rosy picture of diplomatic relations between U.S. and North Korea, the Hermit kingdom lost an opportunity to improve the relationship. (Fox News) The North Korean delegation to the Olympics returned to Pyongyang Tuesday,…
The North Korean delegation to the Olympics returned to Pyongyang Tuesday, officially ending this round of sports-related politics aimed at trying to resolve the North Korea crisis. The question remains: Is either side any closer to a diplomatic gold medal?…
CAIRO – Egypt's state media body is calling on officials and the "elite" to boycott the BBC after it broadcast a report on the repression of dissent under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that addressed torture and forced disappearances. In a Tuesday…
CAIRO – Egypt says archaeologists have discovered parts of a statue of one of its most famous pharaohs in the southern city of Aswan. The Antiquities Ministry said Tuesday the head and chest of the statue of Ramses II were…
A small German town has voted to keep a controversial church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler. (AP) A small town in southwestern Germany has voted to keep a controversial church bell dedicated to former Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. The bell,…
JERUSALEM – The Latest on the Jerusalem mayor's move to collect taxes from Christian denominations, which prompted the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Jerusalem's mayor has suspended a plan to collect taxes…
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says regulators are reviewing the acquisition of nearly 10 percent of Daimler's shares by Chinese businessman Li Shufu, chairman of Zhejiang Geely, but that there don't seem to have been any violations. She told…
BRUSSELS – The European Union's top court says a fisheries agreement the bloc has concluded with Morocco can't include the waters off the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that the "Moroccan fishing zone"…
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia – A police investigator has testified that the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader told a friend in Malaysia that his life was in danger six months before he was killed at an airport. Indonesian Siti…
Kim Jong Nam reportedly told a friend he feared for his life six months before he was killed at a Malaysian airport. (Reuters) Kim Jong Un’s estranged brother Kim Jong Nam told a friend he feared his “life is in…
Police carry away the body of one of two people who fell from a departing airplane on the runway of the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (AP) Two men believed to be stowaways on a U.S.-bound flight…
BEIRUT – The Latest on Syria's civil war (all times local): 3 p.m. The Red Cross says Russia's humanitarian pause in an embattled rebel-held enclave near Damascus offers little time for aid delivery and provides no guarantees of safety for…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani lawyer says an appellate court has suspended the three-year jail terms handed down to 25 suspects over the lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Mohammad Mashal Khan, 23, was killed…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria's military says it has rescued more than 1,100 people, including women and children, who had been held by Boko Haram extremists in different parts of the Lake Chad region near Cameroon. Tuesday's announcement comes more than…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – A leading Slovak newspaper says organized crime may have been involved in the shooting death of an investigative journalist that shocked Slovakia. The bodies of 27-year-old Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova were found Sunday evening…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's president has visited a Jewish community center in a conciliatory gesture that comes amid a wave of anti-Semitism in the country and a dispute with Israel over a new law that makes it a crime to…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia's army says that an attack by leftist rebels along the South American country's volatile eastern border with Venezuela has left at least five soldiers dead and another 10 wounded. The army said that the attack took…
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Police in northern Greece have confiscated 105 kilograms of marijuana from neighboring Albania and arrested an Albanian national suspected of smuggling the drugs in his car. The 26-year-old man was stopped and detained near the Krystallopigi border…
JERUSALEM – The mayor of Jerusalem says he is working with a third party to resolve a tax dispute with major Christian denominations that has led to the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of Christianity's holiest…
BANGKOK – The prime minister of Thailand's military government, which took power in a coup in 2014, says the country will have elections by February next year, though he suggested the date remains conditional on the political situation remaining calm.…
BERLIN – The Latest on frigid weather in Europe (all times local): 12:35 p.m. Some migrants in the French capital have been exposed to the Siberian cold front that has engulfed Paris and large swathes of France with little more…
BERLIN – A small town in southwestern Germany has decided to keep a church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler ringing, but as a memorial to spark dialogue about violence and injustice. The dpa news agency reported Tuesday the Herxheim am…
PRAGUE – A Czech court has ruled that the former leader of a Syrian Kurdish party detained by authorities in Prague will be released from detention despite Turkey's request for his extradition. Salih Muslim, former co-chair of the Democratic Union…
BERLIN – Germany's top court says the country's education minister overstepped constitutional boundaries and exceeded her neutrality in a statement she made about a nationalist party. Johanna Wanka had suggested that people should join protests against the Alternative for Germany…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – The trial for 84 people accused of masterminding a 2015 coup attempt has begun in Burkina Faso. Former presidential aides Gen. Gilbert Diendere and Gen. Djibril Bassole are among those facing a military tribunal. Hundreds of…
