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…