LONDON – The British official in charge of public safety is visiting the area in the English city of Salisbury where a former Russian spy collapsed after he was targeted with an undisclosed nerve agent. Home Secretary Amber Rudd is…
KANDY, Sri Lanka – Calm is beginning to return to violence-hit Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka's Kandy region, with many shops reopening as army reinforcements put an end to Buddhist mob attacks that hit the area. Army commander Mahesh Senanayake…
BERLIN – Germany's center-left Social Democrats party is proposing a mix of veterans and newcomers for ministerial posts in the country's next government. The party's membership on Sunday approved continuing the current "grand coalition" with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Union…
TOKYO – President Donald Trump could become the first sitting U.S. president to visit North Korea if plans for a summit with Kim Jong Un hold. But other prominent American political figures have visited Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, in the…
TOKYO – Japan's finance ministry has confirmed the death of an official linked to a scandal potentially involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife. Ministry officials acknowledged the employee's death at a parliamentary hearing Friday, but refused to give details. Local…
TOKYO – A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a Peruvian man to hang for killing six people over several days in 2015 near Tokyo. The Saitama District Court convicted 32-year-old Jonathan Nakada of the murders committed in Kumagaya, north of…
BEIRUT – Amid a lull in Damascus' embattled rebel-held suburbs, the International Committee of the Red Cross says it's delivering the remaining aid to eastern Ghouta. ICRC says a convoy of 13 trucks, including food parcels for 12,000 people, has…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia's Supreme Court has rejected an application for bail for an opposition leader charged with treason who is seeking to be released for medical treatment abroad. The court ruled Friday that Kem Sokha must be kept…
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Latest on developments in Afghanistan (all times local): 1:15 p.m. An Afghan official says a suicide bomber targeting a gathering of ethnic Hazaras in the capital, Kabul, blew himself up at a police checkpoint outside the…
MANILA, Philippines – Norwegian and U.S. law enforcers have helped the Philippines capture a man they say exploited children by having them join sex videos which he then showed to paying foreign clients online, officials said Friday. National Bureau of…
TOKYO – So President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are planning a summit. What could possibly go wrong? The two countries haven't had significant, high-level talks in years and, as White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee…
PRAGUE – Slovakia has quickly turned from what seemed to be a stable European Union country into chaos, in the wake of the unprecedented slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée. In a speech last month, President Andrej Kiska…
BEIJING – China's central bank governor says the country can be bolder in opening its financial markets following steps to strengthen its regulatory system and encourage use of its currency abroad. Zhou Xiaochuan's comments Friday during the meeting of China's…
SEOUL, South Korea – The Latest on a planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (all times local): 3:30 p.m. South Korea's foreign minister says her government is consulting with the United States on…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says the Taliban launched a deadly assault on an army outpost in a remote region of northern Takhar province, killing 10 local policemen and wounding nine. Provincial police spokesman Khali Aseir said on Friday…
NEW DELHI – A massive fire that started in a chemical factory in western India and spread to six other factories killed at least three workers and injured 13, police said Friday. Police officer Manjunath Shinge said the bodies were…
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian authorities foiled the shipment of 21 containers of prized ironwood from Papua, highlighting what environmentalists say is a rampant illegal trade in the country's easternmost region. The Forestry and Environment Ministry's law enforcement agency said the…
BEIRUT – Turkey's war on a Syrian Kurdish militia that is closely aligned with the United States is forcing the group to give up positions against Islamic State militants in the Syrian desert to defend against the advancing Turkish troops.…
LAHORE, Pakistan – One of the most frightening things about Pakistan's blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death penalty. In the case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman, it started when…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The United States is sounding the alarm that the Chinese money flooding Africa comes with major strings attached. The warnings carry distinct neocolonial undertones. The U.S. says with Beijing's astonishing investments in ports, roads and railways…
BANGKOK – A community leader in Myanmar's Kachin State says the bodies of two civilians last seen in the custody of soldiers have been found in a shallow grave. Community leader Naw Mai says the ethnic Kachin men lived in…
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean President Moon Jae-in says a planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will be a "historical milestone" that will put the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula "really…
CARACAS, Venezuela – A trust linked to Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA has filed a lawsuit against major international energy trading firms for their alleged role funneling bribes to corrupt company officials in exchange for rigged oil purchase contracts. The…
FAJARDO, Puerto Rico – As crews re-string electric lines and clear debris from Hurricane Maria, a small group of Puerto Rican and international conservationists is working on rebuilding natural wonders destroyed by the strongest storm to hit the island in…