Kim Jong Nam reportedly told a friend he feared for his life six months before he was killed at a Malaysian airport. (Reuters) Kim Jong Un’s estranged brother Kim Jong Nam told a friend he feared his “life is in…
Police carry away the body of one of two people who fell from a departing airplane on the runway of the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (AP) Two men believed to be stowaways on a U.S.-bound flight…
BEIRUT – The Latest on Syria's civil war (all times local): 3 p.m. The Red Cross says Russia's humanitarian pause in an embattled rebel-held enclave near Damascus offers little time for aid delivery and provides no guarantees of safety for…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani lawyer says an appellate court has suspended the three-year jail terms handed down to 25 suspects over the lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Mohammad Mashal Khan, 23, was killed…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria's military says it has rescued more than 1,100 people, including women and children, who had been held by Boko Haram extremists in different parts of the Lake Chad region near Cameroon. Tuesday's announcement comes more than…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – A leading Slovak newspaper says organized crime may have been involved in the shooting death of an investigative journalist that shocked Slovakia. The bodies of 27-year-old Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova were found Sunday evening…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's president has visited a Jewish community center in a conciliatory gesture that comes amid a wave of anti-Semitism in the country and a dispute with Israel over a new law that makes it a crime to…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia's army says that an attack by leftist rebels along the South American country's volatile eastern border with Venezuela has left at least five soldiers dead and another 10 wounded. The army said that the attack took…
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Police in northern Greece have confiscated 105 kilograms of marijuana from neighboring Albania and arrested an Albanian national suspected of smuggling the drugs in his car. The 26-year-old man was stopped and detained near the Krystallopigi border…
JERUSALEM – The mayor of Jerusalem says he is working with a third party to resolve a tax dispute with major Christian denominations that has led to the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of Christianity's holiest…
BANGKOK – The prime minister of Thailand's military government, which took power in a coup in 2014, says the country will have elections by February next year, though he suggested the date remains conditional on the political situation remaining calm.…
BERLIN – The Latest on frigid weather in Europe (all times local): 12:35 p.m. Some migrants in the French capital have been exposed to the Siberian cold front that has engulfed Paris and large swathes of France with little more…
BERLIN – A small town in southwestern Germany has decided to keep a church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler ringing, but as a memorial to spark dialogue about violence and injustice. The dpa news agency reported Tuesday the Herxheim am…
PRAGUE – A Czech court has ruled that the former leader of a Syrian Kurdish party detained by authorities in Prague will be released from detention despite Turkey's request for his extradition. Salih Muslim, former co-chair of the Democratic Union…
BERLIN – Germany's top court says the country's education minister overstepped constitutional boundaries and exceeded her neutrality in a statement she made about a nationalist party. Johanna Wanka had suggested that people should join protests against the Alternative for Germany…
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – The trial for 84 people accused of masterminding a 2015 coup attempt has begun in Burkina Faso. Former presidential aides Gen. Gilbert Diendere and Gen. Djibril Bassole are among those facing a military tribunal. Hundreds of…
BEIJING – A Chinese anti-graft official says a new regulation allowing the detention of corruption suspects for up to six months without charge is "based on rule of law." The head of Beijing's anti-corruption watchdog body, Zhang Shuofu, on Tuesday…
BERLIN – Austria's public broadcaster is suing the country's vice chancellor for claiming it spreads fake news. Broadcaster ORF says nationalist politician Heinz-Christian Strache shared a post on Facebook earlier this month that defamed and discredited the work of 800…
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come under criticism for telling a small girl dressed in a military uniform that she would be honored if she were "martyred" for Turkey. Erdogan spotted the weeping-and-saluting 6-year-old Amine Tiras…
KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda's ruling party is pushing for a referendum that could extend the longtime president's rule to 2035. Rogers Mulindwa, a spokesman for the National Resistance Movement party, says the referendum to extend the president's term from five…
LAHORE, Pakistan – The younger brother of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been elected as acting president of the country's ruling party after the Supreme Court ruled that anyone disqualified from office cannot serve as party chief. Tuesday's…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A Danish newspaper says a whistleblower warned the management of Denmark's biggest bank in 2013 that family members of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's spy agency were using its Estonian bank branch for money laundering. Denmark's…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A court in Cambodia has ordered the seizure of the headquarters of the country's former opposition party, which was dissolved last November after a ruling that it was involved in trying to overthrow the government of…
CAIRO – The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged the release of Yemeni journalist detained after he criticized local forces in southern Yemen, trained and funded by the United Arab Emirates. CPJ said on Monday that Awad Kashmeem was detained…