JERUSALEM – Israel's Shin Bet security service says a Palestinian has stabbed an Israeli in Jerusalem, seriously wounding him. Police said he was shot dead by officers at the scene. The attack Sunday occurred in Jerusalem's Old City, home to…
YEKATERINBURG, Russia – From the stage of a gay nightclub, a performer in drag reminded those in the crowd of their civic duty as Russians. "Do you know what's happening tomorrow?" asked Andrei. "I'm going to the election tomorrow. If…
DAMASCUS, Syria – Syrian President Bashar Assad visited troops Sunday on the front line in the newly captured areas of eastern Ghouta, near the capital Damascus, according to images broadcast on state media and on the presidency sites. In the…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A school teacher from the U.K. has won a highly-competitive $1 million prize that honors one exceptional teacher a year who's made a significant contribution to the profession. Andria Zafirakou beat out some 30,000 applicants…
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Greek police say they have arrested three migrant traffickers, a Turk and two Iraqis near the Greece-Turkey. The traffickers were arrested after bringing 45 Syrian and Iraqi men, women and children across a river that forms the…
After China's rubber-stamp legislature reappointed Xi Jinping as China's president with no term limits, the communist country's massive propaganda efforts kicked into high gear. Xi, 64, is considered the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong and last Sunday was…
Choe Kang Il, a senior North Korean diplomat handling North American affairs, is seen at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, March 18, 2018. (Yonhap via AP) A top North Korean diplomat is headed to Finland on Sunday for…
KAMPALA, Uganda – Ask some Africans what they think of President Donald Trump and they just shake their heads. That sense of indifference appears to have deepened after Trump fired his secretary of state at the end of Rex Tillerson's…
BERLIN – Swiss authorities say they've recovered the bodies of two French skiers killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps but two other skiers remain missing. Police from the Valais canton, or state, said the bodies of the two…
LONDON – British police say a man who had been kicked out of a nightclub rammed his car into revelers on a dance floor, injuring at least 13. The Kent Police force says the 21-year-old has been arrested on suspicion…
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan official says a male body has been recovered from the rubble of a building collapse as search and rescue work was called off. Nairobi's police chief Joseph ole Tito said Sunday the operation had been…
Russian President Vladimir Putin looked to be victorious and win a fourth presidential term on Sunday, with the only possible hitch being if large numbers of voters decide to opt out and not vote. Polls have given Putin, who, if…
BUNIA, Congo – The assailants attacked under cover of darkness, slaughtering Nguli Nzafi 's wife and three children with machetes and arrows. The 71-year-old, who also lost all 40 of his cattle in the violence, was forced to flee on…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military says it has destroyed a Gaza tunnel built by the Hamas militant group. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus says Sunday the new tunnel was intended to connect to an old tunnel that Israel partially…
SEOUL, South Korea – A senior North Korean diplomat handling North American affairs is heading to Finland for talks with the U.S. and South Korea. South Korea's Yonhap news agency says Choe Kang Il was seen Sunday at a Beijing…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian state media says the country's foreign minister was briefly hospitalized due to severe illness. The state-run IRNA news agency cited a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that Mohammad Javad Zarif was hospitalized for a few hours…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local): 10:15 a.m. Turkey's president says allied Syrian forces have taken control of the town center of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month offensive against a Kurdish militia. Recep…
DAKAR, Senegal – Senegal's government has closed more than a dozen schools linked to a man the Turkish government considers a terrorist, underlining Turkey's growing influence in predominantly Muslim West Africa. About 3,000 children in Senegal have been affected as…
ISTANBUL – A Turkish news agency and Syrian activists say Turkey-backed forces have reached the center of the Syrian town of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month-old Turkish offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia. Turkey views the Kurdish forces…
MOSCOW – A look at some of the significant dates in Vladimir Putin's 18 years in power as Russia's president and prime minister: Dec. 31, 1999 — In a surprise address to the nation, President Boris Yeltsin announces his resignation…
MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine official says at least four employees have been killed and two others are trapped in a fire that hit a Manila hotel, where more than 300 guests were evacuated, some by helicopter. Johnny Yu, who…
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked other countries to abandon the International Criminal Court because it is "rude." Duterte is facing a possible complaint before the world tribunal for the thousands of killings of drug suspects during…
SYDNEY – South East Asian leaders and Australia's prime minister on Sunday called on North Korea to end its nuclear program urged United Nations countries to fully implement sanctions. Leaders at the first summit of the Association of Southeast Asian…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked security positions northwest of the capital, killing at least five police. Mohammed Zaman, the provincial police chief for Ghazni province, says the attack late Saturday set off a two-hour…
MOSCOW – The Latest on Russia's presidential election (all times local): 9 a.m. Election monitors are reporting irregularities at voting stations across Russia in a presidential election whose only open question is how many people cast ballots. Vladimir Putin is…
JAMMU, India – Officials say five members of a family have been killed and two others wounded in cross border shelling between Indian and Pakistani soldiers in disputed Kashmir. Indian police say the five were killed Sunday after a shell…
YEKATERINBURG, Russia – Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday isn't in doubt. The only real question is whether voters will turn out in big enough numbers to hand him a convincing mandate for his fourth term — and…
LONDON – Britain should consider postponing Brexit because there may not be enough time to strike a deal with the European Union before the U.K. leaves the bloc a year from now, a key committee of British lawmakers said Sunday.…
GANGNEUNG, South Korea – As the world's top disabled athletes competed on ice and snow, Erica Mitchell steered through her own obstacle course on Pyeongchang's narrow and uneven streets. The 31-year-old from Chicago was one of many people with disabilities…
Putin faces seven other challengers but none present a real threat. He solidified this, however, by barring them from campaigning on the final day of the election. (AP) As Sunday’s presidential election nears, Vladimir Putin is widely expected to be…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's leading archbishop has deplored comments by a senior conservative priest who had wished Pope Francis a quick death if he does not open to "wisdom." Krakow Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski said Saturday he heard about the comments…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's semi-official ILNA news agency is reporting that authorities have detained a close ally of former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Saturday report says the office of Tehran prosecutor's said police detained Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei for "investigations."…
JOHANNESBURG – The president of the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius, Africa's only female head of state, has resigned amid a financial scandal. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Gurib-Fakim submitted her resignation in the "national interest," her lawyer Yousouf Mohamed told reporters Saturday,…
Horst Seehofer, left, has undercut Angela Merkel, right, by saying "Islam does not belong to Germany." (Reuters) German Chancellor Angela Merkel was undercut by her interior minister on Friday, when he said in an interview that “Islam does not belong…
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has bowed to pressure and released the complete letter by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI about Pope Francis after coming under criticism for selectively citing it in a press release and digitally manipulating a photograph of…
WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of Poles have staged protests in Warsaw and other cities against racism and anti-Semitism to show they don't agree with the rising wave of hostility and intolerance in Poland. Pounding drums, some 1,000 people walked in…
BERLIN – German authorities say three people have been arrested in the northern city of Hannover when Kurdish demonstrators protesting Turkish military attacks in northern Syria clashed with police. The dpa news agency reported that some of the estimated 11,000…
SANAA, Yemen – Yemen's president has appointed the half brother of the country's slain ex-president to head a military force. Saturday's decision by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi assigns Ali Saleh al-Ahmar, the half brother of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh,…
TIRANA, Albania – Albania police have arrested 39 people in a crackdown on crime rings illegally sending about 1,000 Albanians to Britain, the United States and Canada. Police chief Ardi Veliu said Saturday that, after months of an international investigation,…
PATNA, India – A government official says a speeding bus has fallen into a dry river bed in eastern India, killing at least 10 people and injuring 12. Magistrate Raju Roshan says the driver lost control of the vehicle and…
YPRES, Belgium – A special remembrance installation of 600,000 crouching clay figures is opening to the public soon in Ypres, Belgium, seeking to help visitors from around the world reflect on what happened during World War I a century ago.…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gaza's Hamas rulers have shut the offices of a Qatari-Palestinian cellular provider in connection with its investigation into an explosion that targeted the visiting Palestinian prime minister. Hamas police spokesman Ayman Batniji said Saturday that…
MOSCOW – As a kid in a dismal Soviet communal apartment, Vladimir Putin was a scrapper who dreamed of being an operator — diligently training in martial arts and boldly walking into a KGB office to inquire about how to…
MADRID – Thousands of elderly Spaniards are rallying in protests across the country to ask for an increase in public pension payouts for retirees. Unions and retiree groups called for protests in over 100 cities and towns across Spain on…
BEIRUT – The Latest on developments related to the war in Syria (all times local): 2:15 p.m. The Russian military says more than 30,000 people have fled Syria's besieged east Ghouta and that the flow is continuing. Maj. Gen. Vladimir…
MOSCOW – The Latest on Russia's presidential election (all times local): 2:45 p.m. A Russian election monitoring group is warning that independent observers may be targeted by an "attack" on voting day. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent Golos center,…
The burnt wreckage of a Piper PA-23 Apache six-seater twin-engine light aircraft is seen at right as rescuers recover the bodies of victims following a crash upon takeoff Saturday. (AP) MANILA, Philippines – A small passenger plane carrying five people…
BERLIN – Swiss authorities say they've recovered the body of one skier and are still searching for three others after they were hit by an avalanche in the Alps. Police from the Valais canton, or state, said Saturday that a…
ISTANBUL – Turkey's official news agency says a journalist who has been accused of supporting a failed coup has been released from prison. Sahin Alpay, a 74-year-old journalist who wrote for the now defunct Zaman newspaper, was released from a…
World leaders condemn Russia for spy attack U.S., Germany and France issue statement of solidarity, saying they agree with U.K. assessment that Russia was responsible for nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Russia retaliated…
