BRUSSELS – The European Union has prolonged sanctions against senior Russian officials, lawmakers and military officers for a further six months over alleged meddling in Ukraine. EU headquarters said in a statement Monday that "an assessment of the situation did…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – An airport official says a US-Bangla Airlines passenger plane has crashed as it landed at Kathmandu airport. It wasn't immediately clear if there were fatalities. Clouds of thick smoke could be seen rising from the plane, which…
MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa – Congo's top opposition leader and other figures opposed to longtime President Joseph Kabila are meeting in South Africa to build a coalition ahead of long-delayed elections in the turbulent, resource-rich country. Delegates gathering at a resort…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The BBC says its journalists will appeal for the first time to the United Nations over what the British broadcaster describes as the "persecution and harassment" of those affiliated with its Persian service by Iran.…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has sworn in the newly elected members of the Senate, including for the first time a woman from the marginalized Hindu minority. Krishna Kumari who hails from the so-called untouchables — the lowest in the caste system…
BANGKOK – Amnesty International says Myanmar's military is building installations on land in villages that had been occupied by Muslim Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh after their homes were burned down in what analysts charge was a campaign of…
BERLIN – Austrian police say they have no information yet on the motives of a man who attacked a guard outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna and was then fatally shot. Police said the guard, a 23-year-old Austrian soldier,…
SYDNEY – Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that it doesn't matter whether or not China has a change in leadership, the culture and the system will always remain the same. Ai's comments came a day after China's rubber-stamp…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says that authorities have recovered the "black box" from a Turkish private jet that crashed in Iran while traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, killing all 11 people onboard. Monday's…
SRINAGAR, India – A gunbattle between Indian troops and rebels early Monday killed three insurgents in disputed Kashmir and triggered more anti-India protests and clashes, officials said. The fighting began before dawn after government forces raided a cluster of homes…
TOKYO – Japan's Finance Ministry has acknowledged doctoring documents in a widening scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife that has rattled his government. The doctored documents related to the 2016 sale of state land to a school operator…
BEIJING – South Korea's national security director is holding meetings in Beijing following word of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Chung Eui-yong was briefing top…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says insurgents have taken control of a district headquarters in western Farah province. Fared Bakhtawer, the head provincial council in Farah, said Monday that initial information shows around 15 security forces were killed and…
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said in a new film he ordered – but later pulled back – the shooting down of a passenger plane in 2014 after officials believed a man with a bomb was targeting the Winter Olympic Games…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian voters turned to right-wing parties critical of the country's peace deal with the main leftist rebels and knocked the current president's party down in congressional elections, raising questions about the future of the accord. Sunday's vote…
BEIJING – China's steel mills, a target of U.S. President Donald Trump's ire, are their industry's 800-pound gorilla: They supply half of world output, so every move they make has a global impact. Trump responded last week with a blanket…
VIENNA – Police say an Austrian attacker was shot and killed by the guard he wounded outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna. Police spokesman Harald Soros said the guard was wounded in the arm before he shot the attacker…
A private jet similar to the aircraft seen here crashed in Iran, killing a socialite and her bachelorette party, according to reports. (AP Photo/Yigit Cicekci, File) A Turkish private jet flying a wealthy socialite and her bachelorette party from the…
HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese police have arrested a senior police official suspected of involvement in an international gambling ring as the ruling Communist Party pushes its crackdown on graft. The Ministry of Public Security said on its website that the…
HONG KONG – Final results show Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates have won back two of four seats in a crucial by-election in the semiautonomous Chinese region. According to Monday's tally, the opposition was not able to recapture all its territory,…
ATHENS, Greece – A disputed goal at the end of a Greek league match on Sunday between leader AEK and title rival PAOK led to a pitch invasion by one of the team owners, who appeared to be carrying a…
ROME – A Spanish humanitarian group says it has rescued three migrant brothers who set out from Libya in a rubber dinghy to seek leukemia treatment for one of them. Riccardo Gatti of the aid group Proactiva Open Arms told…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a rudimentary or homemade explosive device was responsible for a tourist ferry blast that injured 26 people Feb. 21 in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen. But Deputy Attorney General Arturo Elias…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a rudimentary or homemade explosive device was responsible for a tourist ferry blast that injured 26 people Feb. 21 in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen. But Deputy Attorney General Arturo Elias…