PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo's government has asked parliament to vote later this week on a revised version of a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. Opposition parties have steadfastly rejected the 2015 agreement, saying that Kosovo would lose territory. But the…
BERLIN – Berlin police have dismissed a nationalist party's claim that officers failed to protect participants in a weekend protest march. Several hundred people, including members of the Alternative for Germany party and far-right activists, marched in the German capital…
AMMAN, Jordan – The chairman of a U.S. Senate panel dealing with foreign aid says a recently signed agreement granting Jordan $1.275 billion a year through 2022 "is a floor" and that Congress is likely to authorize additional financial support…
BERLIN – German police say a Muslim woman wearing a veil covering her entire face and body was attacked and verbally abused inside a Berlin store. Police said Tuesday a 28-year-old woman insulted the victim and ripped the veil of…
SAO PAULO – Brazil's lower house has approved a decree to put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro's security forces amid a spike in violence. The military took over Friday, but the presidential decree still needs congressional approval.…
BRUSSELS – The Latest on migrant issues in Europe (all times local): 4:15 p.m. A Greek court in the northern city of Thessaloniki has convicted a Palestinian man of running a major migrant-smuggling ring and sentenced him to 13 years…
WARSAW, Poland – A regional official in Poland wants two fragments of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto put on a list of historical monuments. The proposal published on Tuesday says the red brick wall at 53 Sienna Street…
CARACAS, Venezuela – A Venezuelan opposition official says the largest parties in the broad anti-government coalition have decided to boycott an upcoming presidential election they say won't be free or fair. Lawmaker Edgar Zambrano told The Associated Press on Tuesday…
BUHERA, Zimbabwe – Thousands of people in Zimbabwe have gathered for the burial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose death from cancer exacerbated divisions within a movement preparing for elections this year. A hearse carrying Tsvangirai's body in a white…
MALE, Maldives – Maldives' parliament has approved a 30-day extension of a state of emergency declared by the president to strengthen his power after the Supreme Court ordered the release of imprisoned political opponents. The speaker of parliament, Abdulla Maseeh,…
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says public representatives will undergo "lifestyle audits" as part of his campaign to clean up the government. Ramaphosa said Tuesday that the scrutiny will start with the executive branch, and that he was…
PARIS – The French prosecutor's office says three people have been detained in France in connection with August's deadly attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. The arrests were made in the southern French regions of Tarn and Gard Tuesday after a…
VALLETTA, Malta – A fire in the arrivals lounge has forced the temporary closure of Malta's only airport. Incoming flights were diverted to Sicily, Italy and departing flights were delayed after the fire on Tuesday afternoon, which forced the evacuation…
The Danish inventor accused of murdering journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine reportedly texted a former lover he had "a murder plan ready in the submarine" just days before the fatal voyage. Peter Madsen, 47, planned…
BANGKOK – Rights groups are urging authorities in Myanmar to investigate and release information about two ethnic Kachin civilians believed to be held by soldiers in the country's north, where fighting has raged between government forces and armed Kachin rebels.…
BRUSSELS – The head of the European Union's border agency says the number of migrants trying to reach Europe through the Mediterranean will remain high this year, with more expected to arrive through Spain. Fabrice Leggeri told reporters Tuesday that…
BERLIN – Members of Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party have started voting on whether to accept the coalition agreement negotiated by their leaders with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc on forming a new government. SPD leaders promised to give the…
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A Bangladeshi official says Myanmar has agreed to resettle more than 6,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been stranded in a no man's land between the two countries, as plans for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of…
GOMA, Congo – Authorities say two workers with a French aid group have been killed by armed gunmen in a village in eastern Congo while a third has been taken hostage. The U.N. humanitarian agency said Monday that they had…
China is reportedly demanding a 24-year-old American man face "severe punishment" for allegedly snapping off the left thumb of a $4.5 million ancient terra-cotta warrior statue on display at a Philadelphia museum. Michael Rohana, 24, was charged with theft and…
China is reportedly demanding a 24-year-old American man face "severe punishment" for allegedly snapping off the left thumb of a $4.5 million ancient Terracotta Warrior statue on display at a Philadelphia museum. Michael Rohana was charged with theft and concealment…
ATHENS, Greece – Greek authorities say 17 Turks who reached a Greek island by dinghy from Turkey are seeking political asylum in Greece. The 17 are reportedly Turkish civil servants and their families who fled a government crackdown in the…
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands – Lawyers for one of four alleged Hezbollah members accused of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri called Tuesday on judges at a U.N.-backed tribunal to acquit him, saying prosecutors have not…
CAIRO – An Egyptian court has added a detained Islamist politician to a list of wanted "terrorists" over his alleged links to the country's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group. The South Cairo Criminal Court added Abdel-Monaem Abul Fetouh, 66, and 15…
ANKARA, Turkey – The Turkish justice minister says the government is considering introducing chemical castration for child abusers, following a series of reports of sexual assault on children. Abdulhamit Gul told reporters Tuesday that under the measure being considered, courts…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa's city of Cape Town has made more progress in putting off "Day Zero," the date when it might have to turn off most water taps because of a drought. The opposition party that runs the city…
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has appealed a five-year prison sentence in a corruption case. In their appeal, defense lawyers argued that the verdict was politically motivated and influenced by the government, an allegation authorities have…
LONDON – Britain's top Brexit official says his country wants to lead a "race to the top" in global standards, in a speech aimed at allaying European fears of a deregulated, laissez-faire U.K. economy. Brexit Secretary David Davis said Tuesday…
WARSAW, Poland – The European Union's top advocate says Poland has infringed environmental laws with its massive logging of trees in one of Europe's last pristine forests. The opinion published Tuesday by Advocate General Yves Bot could bring a ruling…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian state television is airing the first images of the site of an airplane crash in southern Iran that killed 65 people. The footage aired on Tuesday shows the plane crash site against the side of a…
Can US avoid being drawn into proxy war in Syria? Tensions escalating in Syria after reports that about 100 Russian mercenaries were killed in a U.S. airstrike; insight from Lt. Col. Michael Waltz, former U.S. Army Green Beret commander and…
MADRID – A leading Catalan politician is vowing to carry on advocating for Catalan independence from her current base in Switzerland where she is evading a Spanish judicial probe for her role in last year's illegal secession attempt. Anna Gabriel,…
LONDON – British lawmakers are set to question officials of two anti-poverty charities Tuesday amid concern sex predators are targeting aid organizations because of the chaotic environments in which they work. Parliament's International Development Committee called the urgent session amid…
BERLIN – Prosecutors in southwest Germany say a man who attacked and wounded three migrants with a knife apparently acted because he was angry about the government's refugee policy. The 70-year-old, who has German and Russian citizenship, seriously wounded a…
CAIRO – Cairo airport officials say the resumption of Russian flights to Egypt has been postponed until April, citing delays in reopening offices of the countries' national airlines. The officials said on Tuesday that modern baggage-scanning equipment has been installed…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 11:15 a.m. Residents of the Syrian capital and the state-run news agency say shells from besieged rebel-held suburbs are raining down on Damascus. SANA says Tuesday's shelling killed…
CANBERRA, Australia – Australia has accepted the family of a murdered Cambodian political activist as refugees, as the Australian government encourages its rejected refugees to resettle in Cambodia. Victoria state lawmaker Hong Lim's office said Tuesday that Kem Levy's wife…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Parts of New Zealand have declared an emergency as a powerful storm hits, causing flooding and forcing some people to evacuate their homes. The storm system is the remnants of Cyclone Gita, which last week ripped…
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is winning some fans with his habit of early morning jogs and walks in which he interacts with the public. Ramaphosa, who took office on Feb. 15 after predecessor Jacob Zuma resigned, walked…
BANGKOK – A Thai court has granted legal custody of 13 babies carried by surrogate mothers to a Japanese millionaire who is their biological father. Bangkok's Central Juvenile and Family Court on Tuesday gave Mitsutoki Shigeta sole legal custody of…
BEIRUT – A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics say government shelling and airstrikes on rebel-held suburbs of the capital, Damascus, killed at least 98 people on Monday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it was the deadliest day…
GAUHATI, India – Police say nearly 1,000 people dragged two suspects out of a police station and beat them to death in anger after the rape and killing of a 5-year-old girl in India's remote northeast. Police officer Apur Bitin…
BERLIN – A German man has been fined 208,000 euros ($258,000) for cheating at a supermarket self-service till. Munich's district court convicted the 58-year-old businessman of theft for trying to pass off 47 euros-worth of veal liver as cheaper fruit.…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's foreign ministry says Indian troops have opened fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing an 8-year-old boy. The ministry says Pakistan summoned an Indian diplomat on Tuesday to lodge a protest over the killing. Islamabad…
MANILA, Philippines – The leader of the largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines says Islamic State group-aligned militants planned but failed to attack another southern city after their deadly siege in Marawi was crushed last year. Al Haj Murad…
TOKYO – A U.S. fighter jet has dumped fuel tanks into a lake in northern Japan, narrowly missing a dozen fishermen catching clams in the water. Nobody was injured. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement that an F-16…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's official IRNA news agency says the foreign ministry has summoned Sweden's ambassador over the Nordic country decision to grant citizenship to an Iranian researcher who is in jail in Tehran. Tuesday's report says the ministry summoned…
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung that shot ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) high also "annihilated" the mountain's summit. Before and after images from Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation show an enormous chunk missing…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli police have named the two close associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested for their suspected role in a wide-ranging corruption probe. With a gag order lifted Tuesday, police identified them as Nir Hefetz, a former…
