MUSCAT, Oman – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is warning the Syrian government not to use chemical weapons in its civil war and says the Trump administration has made it clear that it would be "very unwise to use gas"…
Hundreds of people have been told to wash their possessions as a precaution after traces of the nerve agent used to attack a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were found in a restaurant where the two were poisoned, the chief…
DILI, East Timor – Thousands of East Timorese have lined the road to the capital's international airport to cheer returning independence hero Xanana Gusmao for leading negotiations that settled the sea border between the impoverished country and Australia. Gusmao, whose…
Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds after the parliament passed a constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits, at the third plenary session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 11, 2018. (Reuters)…
BERLIN – Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the former head of Germany's Catholic Bishops Conference, has died. He was 81. The Catholic group said in a statement that Lehmann died Sunday at his home in Mainz. Lehmann had a stroke last year…
PARIS – France's far-right National Front party has definitively severed its ties to firebrand founder Jean-Marie Le Pen as it tries to revive its fortunes. The party also re-elected his daughter, Marine Le Pen, to a new term as president…
BEIJING – Recent history offers sobering lessons to China's Communist Party as the country's rubber-stamp parliament votes to allow President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. For millennia, one-man rule for life was standard under kings and emperors. But…
NEW DELHI – French President Emmanuel Macron has taken a jibe at President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. Macron did not name Trump while speaking Sunday at the first meeting of the International Solar Alliance in…
PEKANBARU, Indonesia – A rare Sumatran tiger has fatally attacked a man in the latest human-tiger conflict in a western Indonesian region plagued by widespread deforestation. The victim, Yusri Effendi, a 34-year-old construction worker, was mauled Saturday evening in the…
BEIJING – The Latest on China's lawmakers amending constitution to abolish term limits (all times local): 3:55 p.m. China's rubber-stamp lawmakers have passed a historic constitutional amendment that abolishes term limits and will enable President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely.…
BEIJING – China's rubber-stamp lawmakers have begun casting votes on a constitutional amendment that would abolish term limits and enable President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. The amendment's passage Sunday by the National People's Congress' nearly 3,000 hand-picked delegates is…
CAIRO – The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a car bombing at a checkpoint in eastern Libya that killed at least three militiamen. A Libyan official said the attack Friday targeted a checkpoint on the outskirts of the…
ISLAMABAD – Rights activists in Pakistan are expressing concern over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents, saying it could lead to the persecution of minorities, particularly adherents of the Ahmadi faith.…
TOKYO – Japanese in Tokyo and along the northeast coast are marking the seventh anniversary of the tsunami that took more than 18,000 lives and triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Residents in coastal towns observed a moment…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia's former leftist guerrillas face their first electoral test as a political party Sunday in congressional voting also seen as a measure of the strength of the country's factions two months before presidential elections. Analysts see the…
TORONTO – The new leader of Ontario's conservative party is the brother of late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who became famous for smoking crack cocaine. The Progressive Conservatives elected Doug Ford as its new leader Saturday ahead of the June…
HONG KONG – Hong Kong residents voted Sunday in by-elections that give opposition supporters the chance to recapture lost ground in a contest measuring voters' appetite for democracy in the semiautonomous Chinese city. The vote pits pro-Beijing loyalists against opposition…
LONDON – Britain offers wealthy Russians many attractions: London's culture, bucolic countryside, exclusive schools, and a global financial hub. But for some former spies and foes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a move west has been lethal. Sergei Skripal, a…
LA PAZ, Bolivia – A narrow strip of blue has stretched for more than 150 miles (nearly 200 kilometers) across the nation of Bolivia as part of a demonstration of the country's demand for an outlet to the sea. Bolivian…
PARIS – The Latest on the party congress of France's National Front: (all times local): 7:25 p.m. Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has given a big boost to French far right leader Marine Le Pen, telling a cheering crowd…
LONDON – British government security ministers held an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the poisoning of a Russian who spied for Britain as police backed by soldiers continued to search the town where he was attacked with a nerve agent.…
CAIRO – An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 people to death and five others to life in prison for forming a "terrorist cell" to plot attacks on security forces and other institutions. The state-run MENA news agency says the defendants…
BUCHAREST, Romania – Some 3,000 ethnic Hungarians have staged a march in Romania's northwest Transylvania region to demand more autonomy. They gathered in Targu Mures, a city that is home to many ethnic Hungarians, on Saturday carrying a giant Szekler…
British government security ministers held an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the poisoning of a Russian who spied for Britain as police backed by soldiers continued to search the town where he was attacked with a nerve agent. (AP) British…