AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan's king has assured the Palestinians he will defend their "legitimate rights" to independence and a capital in east Jerusalem in dealings with the international community. Abdullah II met Monday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is…
AMSTERDAM – Dutch officials say the European Medicines Agency will be housed in temporary accommodation in Amsterdam before a new headquarters is completed for the agency's relocation from London. Dutch Health Minister Bruno Bruins announced Monday that the EU agency…
BRUSSELS – The Latest on Brexit negotiations (all times local): 3:20 p.m. The European Union has adopted new orders for its Brexit negotiator laying out the terms of a transition period to help ease Britain out of the bloc after…
ROME – Populists aiming to govern Italy for the first time have tapped many middle-class professionals from outside politics as their candidates for March 4 national elections. Luigi Di Maio, the 5-Star Movement candidate for premier, on Monday introduced some…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian government statement says the leaders of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan met in Addis Ababa to discuss contentious issues related to the dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry…
BEIRUT – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is urging calm after a video emerged showing the foreign minister calling Lebanon's powerful parliament speaker a "thug" in a closed meeting. The leaked video which emerged Sunday comes amid an escalating dispute…
BERLIN – Arkady Waispapir, the last known survivor of the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, has died in Ukraine. He was 96. The Berlin-based Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe said Monday that Waispapir died Jan. 11 in Kiev. Born…
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Latest on the conflict in Afghanistan (all times local): 6:30 p.m. At least 11 Afghan soldiers are dead after Islamic State militants attacked troops guarding a military academy in the capital, Kabul. Sixteen others were wounded.…
MADRID – Catalonia's fugitive ex-president, Carles Puigdemont, is asking the region's parliament in a letter to guarantee his right to attend a session this week in which he hopes to be re-elected government leader, without being arrested. Spain's Constitutional Court…
MADRID – Spanish officials say more than 300 people including newborns have been rescued from a wooden boat off Libya's coast and taken to an Italian port. The Defense Ministry said water was flooding the boat when rescuers reached it…
BERLIN – Germany's center-left Social Democrats say new members who join by Feb. 6 will be allowed to vote in a ballot on whether to join conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's next government. The Social Democrats and Merkel's Union bloc aim…
LEGAZPI, Philippines – The Philippine defense chief has recommended that villages in a danger zone around erupting Mount Mayon be turned into a permanent "no man's land" to avoid evacuating thousands of residents each time the country's most active volcano…
AZRAQ AIR BASE, Jordan – Germany's president says moving German troops from Turkey to Jordan as part of an international military campaign against Islamic State extremists was "the right choice." Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke Monday after meeting with the German contingent…
BEIJING – China's air force says a military plane has crashed during training in the southwestern province of Guizhou. The People's Liberation Army Air Force said in a brief post on its official account on the social media site Sina…
KARACHI, Pakistan – A Pakistani court has convicted two Chinese nationals for tampering with an ATM machine, sentencing each of them to a year in prison and a fine of around $400. Akbar Khan, a cybercrimes investigator, said Monday that…
BANGKOK – A student activist says in a Facebook post she fled Thailand after learning she had been charged with insulting the monarchy because she shared a BBC article about the country's new king. Lese majeste, or insulting the monarchy,…
JOHANNESBURG – A South African charity is organizing a nationwide collection of bottled water for stockpiling in military bases in and around Cape Town, which might have to turn off most taps in April because of a prolonged drought. The…
LONDON – Tour operator Thomas Cook is offering vacationers a chance to book a poolside sun lounger in advance — for a fee. Thomas Cook customers willing to pay 25 euros ($31) extra per stay can select a lounger, avoiding…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia's maritime agency and Japan's coast guard have launched a weeklong joint exercise focusing on combating piracy at sea as well as search and rescue operations. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency says the Japanese Coast Guard…
ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani doctor says a French climber rescued from a Himalayan peak is recovering and would be discharged from hospital soon. Elisabeth Revol was rescued by a volunteers' team from a separate Polish expedition on Sunday from Nanga…
BEIRUT – The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 1 p.m. Turkish officials say authorities have detained 311 people for allegedly engaging in "terrorist propaganda" through social media postings critical of Turkey's military offensive into the Syrian Kurdish…
CAIRO – Egyptian prosecutors say they have detained three men over the assault on the country's former top auditor and senior campaign aide for a now-arrested presidential hopeful. The prosecutors said on Monday that the suspects were ordered detained for…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A Cambodian prosecutor says 10 foreigners charged with producing pornographic photos during a party near the country's famed Angkor Wat temple complex have denied wrongdoing. Samrith Sokhon said Monday that the five British nationals, two Canadians,…
BUCHAREST, Romania – Viorica Dancila is expected to win parliamentary approval to become Romania's first female prime minister, and the third premier in a year. The left-wing government faces protests and criticism from the European Union over legislation it is…
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia – A police witness says the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader met with an unidentified Korean American man on a Malaysian resort island just days before he was murdered, as the trial of two women…
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis says countries have a responsibility to fight anti-Semitism and the "virus of indifference" threatening to erase the memory of the Holocaust. Francis' comments to an international conference Monday comes as the largely Roman Catholic Poland…
PODGORICA, Montenegro – Authorities in Montenegro say an explosion in a weapons and ammunition factory has seriously injured two people. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast early Monday in the Tara factory in the northeastern town of…
ROME – In Italy's general election campaign, Rome's uncollected garbage has become fodder for politicians — and at least one pig. The capital's dirty streets, lined with brimming-over, nasty-smelling garbage bins, are providing a handy way to trash the performance…
BEIRUT – Syria activists and rescue workers say at least 11 people have been killed and a hospital was badly damaged and rendered unusable in airstrikes on opposition-held northern province of Idlib in northern. The local White Helmets rescuers say…
HONG KONG – Lawmakers have been grilling Hong Kong's new justice secretary over a controversy surrounding illegal additions to her home that has highlighted concerns about rule of law in the semiautonomous Chinese city. Teresa Cheng faced intense questioning in…
BEIJING – A Chinese lawyer says prominent legal activist Yu Wensheng has been charged with inciting subversion of state power after writing a letter calling for democratic reforms. Yu's lawyer, Huang Hanzhong, said Monday that police informed Yu's wife of…
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine police chief says his force will resume visits to the homes of drug suspects to encourage them to reform, despite his acknowledgement that corrupt police have abused the program. National Police Director-General Ronald dela Rosa…
SYDNEY – A confessed militant who provided a revolver to a school boy who fatally shot a police accountant in Sydney in 2015 refused to stand Monday as a sign of respect for a judge during a court hearing. Raban…
PARIS – Floodwaters have reached a peak in Paris and are now threatening towns downstream along the rain-engorged Seine River. The national flood monitoring agency Vigicrues said the water levels hit a maximum height of 5.84 meters (19 feet, 2…
PARIS – Two British skiers have died after falling from steep slopes in particularly icy conditions on Mont Blanc in the French Alps. Lt. Remi Pelisson with the mountain gendarme service said Monday that the two men were skiing off-piste…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he heading for talks in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin over what he says are Iran's efforts to militarize Lebanon. Netanyahu said upon his departure on Monday that Iran is trying…
SANAA, Yemen – Yemen's state-run news agency says 12 people have been killed and over 130 wounded in clashes between separatists and pro-government forces in the southern port city of Aden, where the government is based. The clashes in Aden…
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Afghan president's office says in a statement that the Indonesian president, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, is visiting Kabul on an official trip to Afghanistan. The statement says President Ashraf Ghani and his guest will hold a joint…
RAMALLAH, West Bank – A top Palestinian official says India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make what is described as a historic visit to the West Bank next month. Majdi Khaldi, an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas told the Voice…
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – An opposition alliance in the Maldives has petitioned the Supreme Court to temporarily remove the president for alleged corruption and misrule. The petition submitted Sunday was signed by leaders of a four-party opposition coalition including two…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – The U.S. and Australia are joining the search for survivors from a ferry that sank near the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati after seven people were rescued from a lifeboat. The New Zealand military found the…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysia's top court in a landmark decision says both parents must consent to the religious conversion of a minor, ruling in favor of a Hindu woman whose ex-husband converted their three children to Islam. M.Indira Gandhi…
WARSAW, Poland – As President Donald Trump declared that "America First does not mean America alone" at a global economic forum in Switzerland, his top diplomat was on a European trip of his own, trying to convince skeptical allies that…
Explosions and gunfire were heard at a military university in Afghanistan early Monday, as reports emerged that the school was under attack. (U.S. Military) Explosions and gunfire were heard at a military university in Afghanistan early Monday, as reports emerged…
Jan. 29, 2018: Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an attack at the Marshal Fahim academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP) At least two Afghan soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded after an army unit guarding a…
Jan. 29, 2018: Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an attack at the Marshal Fahim academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP) At least 11 Afghan soldiers were killed and 16 others were wounded after an army unit guarding a…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official and an eyewitness say blasts have been heard and a gunbattle is occurring near a military academy in the capital Kabul. Afzal Aman, commander of the Army Garrison, says an army unit was attacked…
MEXICO CITY – Two police officers in Mexico City are under arrest in connection with the disappearance of a 17-year-old student who has not been seen since he was detained last week and whose case has prompted outcry on social…
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the proposed Polish law 'baseless' (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night that Israel and Poland have agreed to hold talks seeking to resolve the uproar over…
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in the background, is detained by police officers in Moscow, Russia, Sunday. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman) Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from police custody on Sunday after he was arrested during a day of…
