MOSCOW – The Russian military says it has run a successful test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile capable of sneaking through enemy defenses. A video posted by the Defense Ministry Sunday showed a MiG-31 fighter jet launching a Kinzhal (Dagger)…
ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has put a peace offer on the table, and analysts say the ball is now in the Taliban's court. But so far the militants are showing no sign of being interested. Ghani's offer calls…
MINSK, Belarus – Ukraine's intelligence agency says it has found weapons and explosives at the homes of suspected "agents of Russia." The Ukrainian government has been fighting a separatist war in the east since 2014, which has killed more than…
TIRANA, Albania – Albania's Defense Ministry says four climbers are trapped by snow and ice on a southern mountain. Spokeswoman Albania Qehajaj on Monday said the four Albanians are on the Sotir mountain, 270 kilometers (170 miles) south of the…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's prime minister says 17 deputy government ministers have been dismissed in a move designed to improve the Cabinet's work and make it "less political." Premier Mateusz Morawiecki made the announcement Monday just as the opposition has…
The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter looks "awfully like it was state-sponsored attempted murder," a senior British lawmaker said Monday. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, told BBC News it was too early to…
CAIRO – Egypt has arrested eight people after soccer fans tore out seats and chanted against the government during a game earlier this month. The demonstration, which was dispersed by police, happened during a March 6 match in which Egypt's…
MINSK, Belarus – The European Union's foreign policy chief says the EU will extend a 1 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) loan to struggling Ukraine. Federica Mogherini, who was visiting the capital Kiev on Monday, told reporters the loan should "support Ukraine's…
N'DJAMENA, Chad – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he is hopeful that Chad could be removed from the Trump administration's travel restriction list. Tillerson is speaking at a joint news conference with Chad's Foreign Minister Mahamat Zene (zen)…
LONDON – Two far-right figures say they have been deported from Britain after being detained when trying to enter the country. Austrian Martin Sellner of the Generation Identity group and American commentator Brittany Pettibone tweeted Monday that they were denied…
MADRID – Lawyers for a prominent Catalan secessionist being held in a Madrid jail have made another request to Spain's Supreme Court for him to be allowed to attend a plenary session in the northeastern region's parliament. Separatist Catalan lawmakers…
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel says "it's finally time to start work" as Germany's new government prepares to take office nearly six months after the country's election. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, its Bavaria-only sister party the Christian Social Union, and…
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh's High Court has granted bail for four months to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed on a corruption conviction and is awaiting an appeal. The court made the decision Monday, but…
ATHENS, Greece – Greek police are seeking the gun-toting owner of PAOK Thessaloniki and four others after they marched onto the soccer field following a disputed goal at the end of a league match. PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis walked onto…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – The Latest on a plane crash at the Kathmandu airport (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A police official says at least 38 people were killed and 23 injured when a plane crashed as it landed at the…
At least 38 people were killed when a Bangladeshi passenger plane crashed and burst into flames Monday as it landed at Kathmandu airport in Nepal, a police official said. At least 23 people were injured and 10 others are still…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the developments in Syria (all times local): 12:30 p.m. The largest rebel group in Syria's eastern Ghouta region, just outside the capital of Damascus, says it has agreed with Russian forces to have wounded people…
BEIRUT – Syrian TV says another group of civilians has left the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta outside Damascus through a corridor established by the Syrian army The state-run TV broadcast footage showing a small group of men, women and…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakian Interior Minister Robert Kalinak has resigned from his post amid the crisis following the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee. Kalinak's resignation was a key requirement of a junior party in the government to…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a late-night compromise with his ultra-Orthodox coalition allies that could avert early elections. A parliamentary committee approved a bill on Monday to extend military draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox men, but the…
VATICAN CITY – In five years, the world has gotten to know Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina who was so self-deprecating that when he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica on March 13,…
VATICAN CITY – The humble empathy and the ease with which he walks in others' shoes has won Pope Francis admirers around the globe and confirmed his place as a consummate champion of the poor and disenfranchised. But as he…
Emergency crews responded to a passenger plane that crashed as it landed at Nepal's Kathmandu airport. Casualties feared. (Saroj Basnet) A Nepalese airport official said Monday that a passenger plane crashed as it landed at Kathmandu airport, prompting a massive…
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian news website says Revolutionary Guard troops have thwarted a twin suicide attack near the Pakistan border, killing both would-be bombers. Monday's report by Sepahnews.com says the assailants tried to attack a border outpost belonging to…