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MUNICH –  The Latest from the Munich Security Conference (all times local): 11:25 a.m. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel "will never allow the rewriting of the historical truth" about the Holocaust — a statement that comes as tensions…

CAIRO –  Egypt's Foreign Ministry says it accepts Ethiopia's request to delay a meeting about a dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River, after Addis Ababa declared a state of emergency amid the worst anti-government protests in…

MUNICH –  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an international agreement with Iran has emboldened the regime in Tehran to become increasingly aggressive in the region. Netanyahu told world leaders, defense officials and diplomats at the Munich Security Conference on…

WARSAW, Poland –  A spokeswoman for Poland's prime minister has sought to downplay his words equating Polish collaborators in the Holocaust to alleged "Jewish perpetrators" by saying they were an invitation to a frank debate about the World War II…

An Iran Aseman Airlines passenger jet reportedly crashed in a mountainous area south of Tehran.  (Reuters) A commercial airliner has crashed in southern Iran, killing all 66 people aboard, an airline spokesman told Iran state television Sunday. The plane carried…

TEHRAN, Iran –  The Latest on the crash of an Iranian passenger plane in southern Iran (all times local): 11:50 a.m. A spokesman for Iran's Aseman Airlines spokesman has told state TV that an airplane crash in southern Iran has…

An Iran Aseman Airlines passenger jet reportedly crashed in a mountainous area south of Tehran.  (Reuters) A commercial airliner carrying 66 people has crashed in southern Iran, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. The report on Sunday said the…

TEHRAN, Iran –  The semi-official Fars news agency says a commercial airplane carrying 66 people has crashed in southern Iran. The report on Sunday says the plane crashed near the remote mountain town of Semirom, some 620 kilometers, or about…

JERUSALEM –  The Israeli military says it has struck 18 targets in Gaza in response to an explosive device that wounded four soldiers along the border with the territory. The military says it struck early on Sunday as part of…

QAIM, Iraq –  From their outpost on Iraq's westernmost edge, U.S. 1st Lt. Kyle Hagerty and his troops watched civilians trickle into the area after American and Iraqi forces drove out the Islamic State group. They were, he believed, families…

Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when a military helicopter carrying high-ranking officials to assess the damage from a powerful earthquake crashed in southern Mexico, officials said Saturday. All the victims were on the ground. The Oaxaca state prosecutor's…

PARIS –  Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was jailed this month during an investigation of two alleged cases of rape, has reportedly been hospitalized. An online site campaigning for Ramadan's release said on Saturday that his family had learned…

MEXICO CITY –  Activists and artists in Mexico held a mournful, dirge-like procession for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise Saturday, as the species' numbers fell below 30. With drums, chimes and a carved vaquita skull, hundreds of people made their…

JERUSALEM –  Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill criminalizing the mention…

AMMAN, Jordan –  The state news agency Petra reports that Jordan's military says it has foiled a plot to smuggle in weapons, drugs and terrorists by using an old pipeline linking the kingdom with Syria and Iraq. Saturday's report says…

ATHENS, Greece –  Video footage has surfaced of the moment a Turkish coast guard vessel collided with a stationary Greek patrol boat near a pair of Aegean Sea islets over which the two countries almost went to war in 1996.…

A coach driver is facing the sack after he was filmed trying to drag a French woman off his vehicle by her legs - despite her having a valid ticket. Mobile footage filmed by another passenger captured the moment the…

Soldiers stand guard next to a military helicopter, carrying Mexico's interior minister and the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca, crashed on top of two vans in an open field while trying to land in Santiago Jamiltepec, Mexico, Friday.…

NICOSIA, Cyprus –  A Cyprus court has ordered the detention of two asylum-seekers on suspicion that they instigated a small uprising at an immigrant reception center, causing extensive damage to offices and setting fire to furniture and trash bins. Cyprus…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia –  The Latest on Ethiopia's state of emergency (all times local): 6:15 p.m. The United States says it "strongly disagrees" with Ethiopia's new state of emergency, saying the answer to the country's sometimes violent unrest is "greater…

German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel, delivers a statements about the release of 'Die Welt' journalist Deniz Yucel from prison, in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. The German reporter detained in Turkey for more than a year was released from…

MEXICO CITY –  A military helicopter carrying officials assessing damage from a powerful earthquake crashed Friday in southern Mexico, killing 13 people and injuring 15, all of them on the ground. The Oaxaca state prosecutor's office said in a statement…

LONDON –  The British Geological Survey says a magnitude 4.4 quake has shaken southern Wales. So far there have been no reports of major damage or injuries. The earthquake happened Saturday about 2:30 p.m. local time. Its epicenter was about…

JERUSALEM –  The Israeli military says one of its tanks has struck an observation post in the southern Gaza Strip in response to the detonation of an explosive device along its border. Palestinian officials say Saturday's target belonged to the…

BEIJING –  A large fire has broken out in one of the most important temples of Tibetan Buddhism. The state-run Tibetan Daily newspaper reported that the Jokhang monastery in the regional capital of Lhasa caught fire at 6:40 p.m. Saturday…

Walter Rodriguez shared a picture of German Acosta, the man he beat up after he learned his daughter was being sexually harassed.  (Walter Rodriguez Facebook) A father in Argentina took actions into his own hands after he pretended to be…

MEXICO CITY –  The latest on the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit southern Mexico (all times local): 7:55 a.m. A military helicopter carrying Mexico's interior secretary and a state governor who were assessing damage from a powerful earthquake has crashed…

NEW DELHI –  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has arrived in India for a weeklong visit aimed at enhancing business ties between the two countries. Trudeau and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are also expected to focus on areas including…

BERLIN –  German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the European Union to make progress on a common asylum system, warning that member states who expect financial support from the bloc need to show solidarity when it comes to migrants too. Merkel…

WARSAW, Poland –  Matylda Jonas-Kowalik has spent most of her 22 years secure in the belief that she would never know the discrimination, persecution or violence that killed or traumatized generations of Polish Jews before her. She once thought the…

MOSCOW –  The Latest on the Russian response to U.S. indictments (all times local): 3:45 p.m. U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser has told an international audience that the evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 American election is…

HELSINKI –  Two giant pandas on loan from China have been unveiled at a zoo in central Finland and they have frolicked, galloped, climbed trees and played in the snow after a month-long quarantine. Hua Bao, a 4-year-old male, and…

Pope Francis delivers a blessing from his studio's window overlooking St. Peter's Square on the occasion of the Angelus noon prayer at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)  (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) VATICAN…

ISIS once controlled a third of a Iraq, and are now reduced to just a few hundred in the desert region along the Iraq and Syria border.  (REUTERS) Their fathers and husbands belonged to one of the most brutal militant…

MILAN –  Italian police have clashed with hundreds of anti-fascist demonstrators in Bologna who were trying to disrupt a planned campaign appearance by the head of the neo-fascist Forza Nuova. The news agency ANSA said six demonstrators and one police…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia –  Ethiopia's defense minister is ruling out a military takeover a day after the East African nation declared a new state of emergency amid anti-government protests. Siraj Fegessa also ruled out a transitional government. Prime Minister Hailemariam…

HARARE, Zimbabwe –  The vice chancellor of Zimbabwe's oldest university has been arrested over the controversial awarding of a doctorate to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Anti-Corruption Commission spokeswoman Phyllis Chikundura says Levi Nyagura of the University of Zimbabwe was…

ABOARD USS CARL VINSON, Philippines –  A Navy officer aboard a mammoth U.S. aircraft carrier brimming with F18 fighter jets said American forces will continue to patrol the South China Sea wherever "international law allows us" when asked if China's…

MOSCOW –  One of the 13 Russians indicted by the United States for interfering in the American presidential election says the U.S. justice system is unfair. Mikhail Burchik was quoted as saying by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda that "I am…

MUNICH –  The Latest on the Munich Security Conference (all times local): 10:20 a.m. British Prime Minister Theresa May is calling on her country's European Union partners not to let "rigid institutional restrictions" get in the way of a wide-ranging…

MALE, Maldives –  Dozens of pro-opposition supporters have been injured and many were arrested after police in the Maldives broke up countrywide protests demanding the resignation of President Yameen Abdul Gayoom and the release of his political opponents from prison.…

LAHORE, Pakistan –  A public prosecutor in Pakistan says a court has sentenced a serial killer to death after finding him guilty of killing eight children, including a 7-year-old girl whose rape and murder drew nationwide condemnation. Ehtesham Qadir says…

BEIRUT –  Syrian Kurdish news outlets and Syria's state-run news agency say six civilians have suffered breathing difficulties after what they say was a poison gas attack launched by Turkey on the Kurdish-controlled enclave of Afrin. The news outlets quote…

MUNICH –  Germany's foreign minister says that as China's influence on the world stage rises, the U.S. and Europe need to return to historical bonds and work together or risk getting left behind. Sigmar Gabriel told world leaders and defense…

LAGOS, Nigeria –  Police say three suicide bombers have attacked a crowded market in northern Nigeria, killing at least 18 people. Borno state police spokesman Joseph Kwaji confirms the Friday night attack to The Associated Press. The bombers, all believed…

MEXICO CITY –  A powerful earthquake that rattled south and central Mexico caused little apparent destruction but rekindled fears in a population that still sees daily reminders of deadly earthquakes five months ago. Maricarmen Trujillo was in the same place…

MEXICO CITY –  The latest on the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit southern Mexico (all times local): 7 p.m. A magnitude 5.8 aftershock in southern Mexico has caused tall buildings in Mexico City to briefly shudder, about an hour after…

People stand on the street after an earthquake shook buildings in Mexico City, Mexico February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Claudia Daut - RC1B09EEBCB0 A 7.5 magnitude quake shook southern Mexico on Friday, a prolonged rumble that rocked buildings across Mexico City. According…

MEXICO CITY –  A powerful earthquake has shaken south and central Mexico, causing people to flee buildings and office towers in the country's capital, and setting off quake alert systems. Crowds of people gathered on central Reforma Avenue in Mexico…