MADRID – Two prominent Catalan politicians are testifying before a Supreme Court judge for their roles in holding a banned independence referendum and making an illegal declaration of independence based on its results. Judicial police have identified left-republican ERC party's…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A legal battle between France and Equatorial Guinea over the corruption prosecution of the African nation's vice president is back before the International Court of Justice, months after a Paris court convicted the vice president. French…
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reported to favor the governor of Saarland state to run her center-right party's day-to-day operations. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been tipped as a possible successor to Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union.…
LONDON – Oxfam's report on sexual misconduct allegations in Haiti shows that three staff members intimidated and physically threatened witnesses as the charity investigated the original claims. The organization released the findings of its investigation Monday, following reports suggesting Oxfam…
MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 has struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, days after a more powerful temblor hit the same area. The epicenter of the quake, which…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 11:25 a.m. Turkish officials have increased to 786 the number of people detained so far in Turkey for criticizing the country's military offensive in northern Syria. Authorities have…
BEIRUT – Syrian state TV says pro-government forces will begin entering the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Afrin in the country's northwest "within hours." The TV gave no further details about the deployment of the troops, known as "popular forces," which…
MOSCOW – The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan region. At least five people were killed and four wounded when a gunman opened fire with a hunting rifles on…
BERLIN – A leading figure in the nationalist Alternative for Germany has urged the party's followers to reject violence. Joerg Meuthen wrote on his Facebook page that he was prompted to speak out after readers of an earlier column had…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military says it has struck an underground militant infrastructure site in Gaza in response to rocket fire toward Israel. Monday's airstrikes come amid days of renewed tensions and violence along the Gaza border. The military has…
In January, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that those fleeing “persecution, terror & war, Canada will welcome you regardless of faith,” but a recent report indicated that his country has been deporting North Korean asylum seekers. Al Jazeera reported Sunday…
DHARMSALA, India – The Tibetan government-in-exile says a weekend fire at the sprawling Jokhang monastery in Tibet did not affect the main chapel at the 1,300-year-old religious site, considered the spiritual heart of Tibetan Buddhism. The Jokhang chapel houses many…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says that bodies of nine civilians abducted by militants early last year have been found in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar. A district governor says the bodies, including three of tribal leaders, were…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's Press TV is reporting that search and rescue teams have reached the site of the plane crash that authorities say killed all 65 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance…
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Rumbling Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has shot billowing columns of ash more than 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) into the atmosphere and hot clouds down its slopes. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency says there…
MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine diplomat says the risks of an armed conflict have increased in the disputed South China Sea with a militarily stronger China now able to challenge the United States, which used to be the dominant power…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani cricket legend-turned-politician Imran Khan has married a faith healer, ending rumors that he was considering a third marriage after divorcing two wives. Khan's Pakistan Taherik-e-Insaf party announced Monday that the 66-year-old Khan has married Bushra Maneka. The…
A new report details how a worldwide oversight in the War on Terror helped lead to the deaths of four U.S. service members in Niger last October — the largest loss of American troops during combat in Africa since the…
A passenger killed in the deadly Iranian commercial plane crash on Sunday reportedly channeled his faith just moments before takeoff, sending his girlfriend one last text. “May God protect us to arrive safe,” the unnamed passenger wrote to his girlfriend,…
In this 2014 file photo, members of Russia's special forces stand guard during an operation in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan. (REUTERS/Stringer ) Five women were killed and several others were injured after a gunman…
A helicopter leaving from the location where an avalanche injured two people at the Fenestral Pass, in Finhaut, Switzerland. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP) Authorities say two skiers were killed by an avalanche in the French Alps, and two more people…
PARIS – Authorities say two skiers were killed by an avalanche in the French Alps, and two more people were injured by an avalanche in Switzerland near the border with France. The prefecture in France's Savoie region said the fatal…
It has been a whirlwind of change for staunchly conservative Saudi Arabia, and on Friday a sold-out audience in Riyadh was treated for the first time to a woman taking the stage alongside the men. The actress, Najat Mouftah, played…
Israel revealed it foiled a terror plot targeting Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, seen here in 2010. (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi, File) Israel’s security service, the Shin Bet, revealed Sunday that it had arrested two members of Islamic Jihad terror cell (PIJ)…
MINSK, Belarus – Several thousand supporters of deported Ukrainian opposition figure Mikheil Saakashvili marched through the center of Kiev on Sunday, demanding the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko. The protest included a nationalist faction, and some of its members broke…
LA PAZ, Bolivia – Bolivian authorities now say that both of the explosions that killed 12 people during recent Carnival celebrations were caused by dynamite, not exploding gas tanks as initially thought. Interior Minister Carlos Romero says officials are still…
MEXICO CITY – Three presidential candidates have accepted the nominations of Mexico's main parties for the July 1 election, formally entering what is shaping up to be a crowded race. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the leftist Morena party is…
MALE, Maldives – The Supreme Court of the Maldives has delayed its order reinstating 12 pro-opposition lawmakers ahead of a key parliamentary sitting. Opposition lawmaker Ahmed Mahloof says the decision came Sunday. At a parliamentary sitting Monday, the government may…
JERUSALEM – Israeli police say they have arrested senior officials at the country's national telephone company as part of an investigation into alleged corruption offenses. The Israeli daily Haaretz says police are investigating a possible relationship between the company, Bezeq,…
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary's prime minister says that "Christianity is Europe's last hope" and that politicians in Brussels, Berlin and Paris favoring migration have "opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam." Viktor Orban…
Hikers were reported missing after they were swept away by an avalanche in Switzerland. (Valais Police) Hikers were reported missing on Sunday after they were swept away by an avalanche in Switzerland, reports said. The hikers were in the Swiss…
In this 2014 file photo, members of Russia's special forces stand guard during an operation in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan. (REUTERS/Stringer ) Five people were killed and several others were injured after a gunman…
LAGOS, Nigeria – Authorities in Nigeria are releasing hundreds of people accused of supporting an Islamic extremist group, citing a lack of evidence. Salihu Othman Isah, a special adviser to Nigeria's attorney general, said in a statement Sunday that 475…
CAIRO – An Egyptian court has sentenced 65 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to jail over alleged incitement against the state. The decision late Saturday by a court in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig also acquitted eight…
Model Chloe Ayling isn’t bothered that people suspect she masterminded her own kidnapping. “It doesn’t offend me, no,” she tells Australia’s “60 Minutes” news program, according to News.com.au. The 20-year-old woman explains that she isn’t offended because she gets it.…
A passenger plane crashed in a mountainous region in southern Iran on Sunday, killing all 65 people on board, an airline spokesman told Iran state television. Aseman Airlines Flight No. 3704 came down near the city of Yasuj, about 485…
BERLIN – German police are investigating a British woman for suspected incitement after she questioned the Holocaust during a far-right protest in the eastern city of Dresden. A spokeswoman for Dresden police says Australian-born Michele Renouf is one of two…
Four people were killed and several others were injured after a gunman opened fire on people leaving a church service in Russia's Dagestan region on Sunday, Russian news agency Tass reported. The shooting took place outside a church in the…
ISTANBUL – Turkey's military says two soldiers are missing in a flood after heavy rains pummeled the country's southeast, and Turkish media reported that their armored vehicle had toppled into a river. In a statement Sunday, the army said the…
MOSCOW – Russian news agency Tass is reporting that a gunman opened fire on people leaving a church service in Russia's Dagestan region, killing four and wounding four others. Tass said the Sunday shooting occurred outside a church in the…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – West Africa's extremist threat has moved into a new part of the vast Sahel region, with a previously calm area of Burkina Faso facing the kinds of assaults that have forced thousands elsewhere to flee over…
BERLIN – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says he expects top-level visits between his country's president and German leader Angela Merkel, a sign of improved relations between the two countries. Ties between Germany and Turkey have been strained over a…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – The Kosovo Assembly, or Parliament, has convened in a special session to celebrate the country's 10 years of independence. In a second day of celebrations Sunday, a ceremony started with the Parliament session and was being followed…
KUWAIT CITY – A judge in Kuwait has ordered dozens of politicians, activists and others imprisoned over protesters storming parliament in 2011 to be freed on bail pending their appeal before the country's highest court. The order Sunday by Court…
AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan – A job center has opened in Jordan's second largest camp for Syrian refugees, the latest sign of an EU-backed policy shift meant to improve life for Syrians in regional host countries. Dozens of refugees lined…
JOHANNESBURG – The former South African state prosecutor who led the case against convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius is prepared to take legal action against Jacob Zuma, the ex-president who left office last week following a series of scandals. A group…
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe's president Sunday visited the home of deceased opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to pay condolences to his family and to urge unity as power struggles within the opposition have heightened tensions. President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged that his…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel "will act if necessary" after an Iranian drone entered the country's airspace earlier this month and warned the country is growing its presence in the Middle East. Netanyahu made the…
A passenger plane crashed in a mountainous region in southern Iran on Sunday, killing all 66 people on board, an airline spokesman told Iran state television. Aseman Airlines Flight No. 3704 came down near the city of Yasuj, about 485…
LONDON – The widower of a slain British legislator has stepped down from two charities set up in her memory after allegations of sexual misconduct in the past were reported. Brendan Cox said late Saturday night he had acted inappropriately…
