ATHENS, Greece – The Latest on the sinking of a suspected migrant boat off Greece (all times local): 11 a.m. Greece's coast guard says the bodies of 14 people have been recovered from the sea off a Greek island in…
STOCKHOLM – North Korea's foreign minister is set to meet again with his Swedish counterpart amid growing speculation about a possible meeting in the Scandinavian country between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Ri Yong Ho,…
MOSCOW – The Latest on developments related to the war in Syria (all times local): 11:45 a.m. Turkey's military has rejected allegations it bombed a hospital in Afrin in northwestern Syria, where it's engaged in an offensive against Syrian Kurdish…
SYDNEY – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says the displacement of Rohingya Muslims is no longer solely a domestic issue for Myanmar, as Southeast Asian nations signed a counterterrorism cooperation agreement at a regional leaders' conference. Najib made his comments…
MOSCOW – Russian voters, observers and eight presidential candidates are gearing up for an election that will undoubtedly hand Vladimir Putin another six-year term. The outcome in Sunday's vote is so certain that authorities are investing in get-out-the-vote efforts to…
HANOI, Vietnam – Phan Van Khai, an architect of Vietnam's economic rise and the country's first prime minister to visit the United States since the war, has died. He was 84. The official Vietnam News Agency says Khai died early…
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Pope Francis has traveled to southern Italy to honor a wildly popular Italian saint, Padre Pio. Francis took a helicopter from the Vatican early Saturday morning to visit Pietrelcina, the town of the Capuchin monk's…
ATHENS, Greece – Greece's coast guard says the bodies of six people have been recovered from the sea off a Greek island in the eastern Aegean following the sinking of a suspected migrant smuggling boat. The bodies of four children,…
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine police say a small passenger plane carrying five people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff north of Manila and killed all those onboard and two people on the ground. Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines…
MOSCOW – Russia's military says more than 11,000 people have left Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta outside the capital Damascus in the past few hours as government forces step up an offensive on the rebel enclave. Maj. Gen. Vladimir Zolotukhin was…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan police officer says a suicide car bomber has killed three civilians and wounded five more in the eastern part of the capital Kabul. Jan Agha said the attacker targeted a foreign convoy on Saturday but…
BEIJING – China's rubber-stamp legislature has appointed a close ally of President Xi Jinping to the formerly ceremonial post of vice president. The appointment of Wang Qishan is expected to further Xi's agenda of shoring up Communist Party rule while…
BEIJING – Xi Jinping was reappointed Saturday as China's president with no limit on the number of terms he can serve. The National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp legislature, also appointed close Xi ally Wang Qishan to the formerly ceremonial post…
SYDNEY – Southeast Asian leaders will sign an agreement on regional cooperation against violent extremism as the risk to the region grows due to militants fleeing Islamic State group losses in the Middle East, an official said on Saturday. The…
MEXICO CITY – Mexico's electoral authorities say only one of three independent candidates for president who initially seemed to have gathered the necessary number of signatures to make the ballot appears to have actually qualified after a detailed review. Margarita…
BALI, Indonesia – Indonesia's normally bustling Bali has shut down social media, turned away flights and shuttered all shops for a Day of Silence that marks New Year on the predominantly Hindu island. "Nyepi" began at 6 a.m. on Saturday,…
BOGOTA, Colombia – The United Nations says 84 human rights activists were killed in Colombia last year as the country struggles to contain post conflict violence. A peace deal signed in 2016 with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has…
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations is appealing for nearly $1 billion for the humanitarian crisis sparked by the flight of about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh since August. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters Friday that…
NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan court is allowing police to continue detaining five people who allegedly were planning to attack a Nairobi courthouse so a Muslim cleric facing terror charges could escape. The Anti-Terrorism Police Unit said the suspects had…
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico – Mexican authorities have informed the former governor of a state bordering Texas that they have accepted a U.S. request to extradite him to the United States to face money laundering charges. The Foreign Relations ministry says…
VATICAN CITY – The Latest on the Vatican convicting suspended Guam Archbishop Anthony Apuron of some charges in a sex abuse trial (all times local): 10 p.m. The suspended Guam archbishop convicted of some charges in a sex abuse trial…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo's ombudsman has urged the government to issue residence papers for ethnic Albanians who have been displaced from neighboring Serbia for "security, social or economic reasons." A report from the people's advocate said Friday that since 2001,…
KIGALI, Rwanda – Rwanda's Revenue Authority says it will put assets belonging to the family of a jailed critic of President Paul Kagame's government up for auction to pay off a debt to the tax body. The Revenue Authority said…
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan officials say at least 15 people have died and scores of families have been displaced across the East African nation due to two days of heavy rainfall. The deluge of water submerged vehicles in Nairobi's affluent…
MOSCOW – The gulf between Russia and Britain widened on Friday as they cranked up pressure over a nerve agent attack and a suspected murder in Britain that have deepened Western worries about alleged Russian meddling abroad. Britain's foreign secretary…
A shocking video has emerged of skiers and snowboarders getting flung off a chairlift Friday at a European ski resort after a malfunction caused it to bring riders down the mountain at high speeds. Crowds that gathered around the lift…
TIRANA, Albania – Albanian prosecutors say a mayor and 11 other officials have been arrested for illegally selling a beach area in the largest operation yet of its kind. A statement from prosecutors Friday said that Fran Frrokaj, the mayor…
SAO PAULO – Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is launching a book in which he says he is 'ready' to go to jail and serve a 12 year and one month sentence on corruption charges. The book…
Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian businessman living in London, was found dead in his home. Police have launched a murder invetigation. (Ki Price/The Times/Mega)) A murder investigation was launched Friday into yet another suspicious incident involving yet another Russian exile living in…
WARSAW, Poland – Polish agriculture authorities say a renowned Arabian horse show will be moved this year from its home in eastern Poland to Warsaw for ceremonies marking 100 years of the nation's independence. The show is traditionally held at…
VATICAN CITY – A Spanish migrant rescue group says its ship with 216 migrants is waiting to be let into a port in Italy after having a high-seas run-in with the Libyan coast guard during the rescue. Proactiva Open Arms…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have rallied across Slovakia to demand an early election to resolve a political crisis set off by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee. Protesters took to the streets…
Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian businessman living in London, was found dead in his home. Police have launched a murder invetigation. (Ki Price/The Times/Mega)) A murder investigation was launched Friday into yet another suspicious incident involving yet another Russian exile living in…
MOSCOW – Ukraine's parliament is considering a bill that would require lawmakers to check their guns at the entrance. News agency Ukrinform reported that Volodymyr Areshonkov, a deputy head of parliament's rules committee, said Friday the measure would oblige lawmakers…
LONDON – British police say they are treating the death of London-based Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov as a homicide, after a post-mortem revealed he died from compression to the neck. Glushkov was an associate of Boris Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch…
JERUSALEM – Israeli media is reporting that a Palestinian has rammed his vehicle into a group of people in the West Bank, killing two Israelis and wounding two others. Channel 10 TV and other media said Friday's incident appeared to…
MY LAI, Vietnam – Talk of peace dominated the 50th anniversary commemoration of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, but among the hundreds in the audience were survivors and a former U.S. Army photographer whose gruesome images galvanized anti-war opinion.…
GENEVA – A court in Switzerland has sentenced a 34-year-old youth soccer coach to life in prison for the brutal slayings of four people that shocked the country. Lenzburg's regional court convicted Swiss citizen Thomas N., whose surname wasn't released,…
JOHANNESBURG – The director of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority says that former president Jacob Zuma will be prosecuted on 16 charges of corruption. Shaun Abrahams announced Friday that Zuma will face charges including fraud, corruption, racketeering and money laundering.…
MOSCOW – There are eight candidates in Sunday's Russian presidential election, including President Vladimir Putin. With his approval rating topping 80 percent and rivals trailing far behind, Putin is set to easily win a fourth term. Putin's most vocal critic,…
PARIS – France's anti-fraud body says it has uncovered a huge scam in which a merchant tried to sell more than 48 million liters (some 12.7 million gallons) of wine falsely labeled as Cotes-du-Rhone. The DGCRF said in its annual…
MADRID – Spain's capital is grappling with the aftermath of violent unrest following the death of an African street vendor who had been running away from police officers. The death, and the clashes between riot police and protesters that followed…
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. It's “overwhelmingly…
CAIRO – The death of an Egyptian teenager in the UK has sparked outrage across Egypt, where officials have described the incident as "barbaric." Mariam Mustafa, an 18-year-old engineering student, was allegedly attacked on the street by a group in…
Street clashes erupted Thursday night in central Madrid after the death of a 35-year-old African vendor. (AP) A group of mostly migrant protesters clashed with police in Madrid Thursday and Friday, with demonstrators setting fire to trash bins and parked…
BERLIN – Germany's new interior minister said Friday he doesn't consider Islam to be a part of Germany, a position that puts him at odds with Chancellor Angela Merkel on the central question of migration. Horst Seehofer, the country's top…
WARSAW, Poland – Germany's new foreign minister arrived Friday in Poland for talks on the European Union's future and security and on the two neighbors' bilateral relations. Heiko Maas said before departing he wanted to make it clear that Germany…
LONDON – A British retailer has withdrawn a T-shirt from sale in its stores and online following complaints that its design could be associated with the Hillsborough soccer disaster. Topman had on sale a red shirt with a large "96"…
CAIRO – Thousands of Egyptian expatriates around the world are heading to polling stations to cast their ballots in the presidential election. Lasheen Ibrahim, head of the election commission, said the turnout Friday appears to be "good," without elaborating. Overseas…
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said Friday it had convicted the suspended Guam archbishop, who was accused of sexually abusing minors, financial mismanagement and other charges, but didn't say exactly what crimes he had committed. A statement said only that…
