A reporter for Russia’s main state-controlled media television channels warned so-called traitors Wednesday not to move to the United Kingdom following the assassination attempt on ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal. Kirill Kleimenov of Channel One was reporting on the alleged assassination…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo's deputy prime minister has been acquitted of charges that resulted from two slayings during the 1998-99 Kosovo War. Fatmir Limaj was accused in 2016 of failing to prevent the killings of two Albanians in 1998, when…
PANAMA CITY – Lawyers for the Trump Organization in Panama say they will take legal action to restore the Trump name to the Panama City hotel where workers pried off metal letters bearing the brand. On Friday, Britton and Iglesias…
VATICAN CITY – The retired archbishop of Santiago is trying to deflect criticism for Pope Francis' troubled visit to Chile, blaming everything from the summer weather to an "absentee" spokesman for the lower-than-expected turnout and negative press coverage. Cardinal Javier…
JOHANNESBURG – A plastic surgeon in South Africa says he doubts that a triathlete who suffered severe leg injuries after men attacked him with a saw will be able to compete "in the near future." Dr. O'Sharran Singh told journalists…
The Trump administration is moving to get much tougher on the issue of sexual abuse committed by humanitarian aid workers, and joining an international bandwagon that could cut off funding for international agencies who can’t—or don’t-- address the problem. The…
Authorities investigating the mysterious poisoning of an ex-Russian spy living in the United Kingdom are probing the possibility the would-be assassins used the man's unwitting daughter to slip the extremely rare toxic nerve agent inside his home. Former London police chief…
JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Health Ministry says a 24-year-old man has been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank. It said he was shot in the chest Friday and declared dead at a Hebron hospital. Israel's military…
BERLIN – Prosecutors are demanding a life sentence for an Afghan migrant on trial in Germany for the rape and killing of a 19-year-old medical student in October 2016. Chief prosecutor Eckart Berger told Freiburg's regional court Friday that the…
PARIS – The sole surviving suspect from the November 2015 Paris extremist attacks has agreed for the first time to answer questions about others accused of involvement. A source close to the case told The Associated Press that Salah Abdeslam…
JUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan has suspended a United Nations radio station for allegedly refusing to comply with the country's media laws, although the station has not yet been taken off the air. On Friday, the Media Authority, an…
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – The spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says the son of their chief, Mullah Fazlullah, was among 21 "holy warriors" killed this week when missiles fired by a U.S. drone struck a seminary in Afghanistan. Mohammad…
MADRID – Spain's Supreme Court has turned down a request from a jailed Catalan separatist leader to attend the northeastern region's parliament, where lawmakers are due to vote on whether to make him president of Catalonia. Judge Pablo LLarena wrote…
The British government deployed the military Friday to help with its probe of the mysterious nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter -- an apparent assassination attempt that also left 19 others seeking medical treatment. The Metropolitan…
MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine police official says an alleged former commander of the Islamic State group in Syria who was arrested recently in Manila will not be freed even after a prosecutor dropped criminal complaints of illegal possession of…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Turkey's president says Turkish troops and Ankara-backed opposition fighters have encircled the main city in a Syrian Kurdish-held enclave in northwest Syria and are on the…
BENGHAZI, Libya – A military spokesman says a car bomb explosion has killed at least three security personnel at a checkpoint south of the northeastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya. Faisal Ahbale said Friday's attack took place at the town's southern…
PRAGUE – The Latest on the slaying of a journalist and his fiancee in Slovakia (all times local): 1:45 p.m. Slovakia's top three politicians have failed to agree on a common declaration meant to calm the tense situation in the…
GENEVA – The United Nations' human rights chief has suggested that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte "needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation" over his "unacceptable" remarks about some top human rights defenders. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein demanded that…
SEOUL, South Korea – After a year of threats and diatribes, U.S. President Donald Trump and third-generation North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un have agreed to meet face-to-face for talks about the North's nuclear program. It remains to be seen…
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican says Pope Francis will visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Sept. 22-25 as the three Baltic nations celebrate their 100th anniversaries. The Vatican confirmed the trip Friday, saying Francis would visit Vilnius and Kaunas in…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistani police say they have arrested a key suspect sought for inciting the lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy in the country's northwest. District police chief Saeed Khan said on Friday that…
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya's president and opposition leader say they met for talks, months after the presidential elections sparked turmoil as the opposition charged there was electoral fraud. President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Friday they…
DJIBOUTI – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson drew a distinction Friday between "talks" with North Korea and "negotiations," arguing that President Donald Trump's willingness to chat with Kim Jong Un shouldn't be construed as anything more than that. The…