BEIJING – A Chinese general says China needs to build defensive structures on islands in the South China Sea to display its claim to sovereignty over virtually the entire crucial waterway. However, the vice president of China's Academy of Military…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have upheld most of the convictions of a former Congolese vice president for interfering with witnesses during his war crimes trial, and ordered the original trial chamber to review…
BUJUMBURA, Burundi – A Rwandan official says more than 2,500 Burundian refugees in Congo are seeking shelter in Rwanda amid fears they could be forcibly repatriated back home by Congolese authorities. Jean Claude Rwahama, a refugee official in Rwanda, said…
BERLIN – A prominent member of the nationalist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, will resign from his party posts following several controversial and anti-Muslim remarks about migrants. The party board of the AfD in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt said…
BEIJING – The Bank of China has pledged at least 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) to create a massive giant panda conservation park in southwestern Sichuan province, the forestry ministry said Thursday. The Sichuan branch of the central bank signed…
CAIRO – Egypt's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the U.N. human rights chief's critical statements on what he described as the "pervasive climate of intimidation" in Egypt ahead of the presidential election later this month. The ministry said in a…
BRUSSELS – With warmer weather on the horizon, the European Union is weighing more ways to prevent migrants from reaching its shores but remains deeply divided over how to share responsibility for those people entitled to stay. EU interior ministers…
TIRANA, Albania – Albanian authorities say that heavy rain has caused flooding in more parts of country, with landslides damaging many roads. The defense ministry said Thursday that about 2,800 hectares (6,900 acres) of agricultural land and grasslands in the…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland is marking 50 years since the start of student protests that were exploited by the communist regime to purge Jews from the party and from Poland. The result was the expulsion of 13,000 Jews, among them…
BAGHDAD – A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the Islamic State group's leader on terrorism charges and sentenced her to death. The spokesman of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement on Thursday that Abu…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The chairman of the African Union Commission says he considers President Donald Trump's slur about Africa to be an incident "of the past." Chairman Moussa Faki and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were questioned during…
ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has called on Arab nations to work together to fight illegal migration and the networks that feed them. In a message read to a meeting in Algiers of Arab interior ministers, Abdelaziz Bouteflika…
BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has tweeted that he will not be a part of the next government. Gabriel wrote Thursday that the heads of the Social Democratic Party had informed him of the decision and that he…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Latest on the murder trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen (all times local): 9:45 a.m. The trial has started of Danish inventor Peter Madsen, accused of tying up, torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall during…
Two missiles fired from a U.S. drone hit a militant facility in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgents, including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban, two Pakistani intelligence officials and local Taliban commanders said on Thursday. The strike,…
CAIRO – Egyptian airport officials say 100 Egyptians have landed in Cairo after being deported from Germany over residency permit violations, the first action of its kind from Berlin. The officials say the Egyptians arrived on a Wednesday flight from…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – They could have run into each other sipping coffee in the lobby, perhaps at the bar at Ethiopia's finest hotel. But U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov don't appear destined…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Danish inventor Peter Madsen stands accused of tying up and torturing Swedish reporter Kim Wall before he either cut her throat or strangled her during a trip on his private submarine in August. Madsen, 47, whose trial…
BEIRUT – The International Committee of the Red Cross says a second convoy that was supposed to carry aid to the besieged rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus has been postponed because of the violence. Ingy Sedky, the ICRC spokeswoman in…
BERLIN – Austrian police say they have detained a 23-year-old suspect in connection with knife attacks in Vienna in which four people were injured. Police spokesman Patrick Maierhofer said in a statement Thursday the male suspect was detained shortly after…
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani intelligence officials and local Taliban say two missiles fired from a U.S. drone hit a militant facility in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgents, including the son of the head of the Pakistani Taliban. The…
KANDY, Sri Lanka – Residents say Buddhist mobs are still sweeping through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka's central hills, destroying stores and restaurants despite a curfew, a state of emergency and heavy deployment of security forces. Mohamed Ramzeen, who owns…
RABAT, Morocco – For 23 years, Khadija says her husband raped her, nearly every day. And her case is far from unique, according to counselors at the Annajda Center in Rabat, one of over 1,000 associations in Morocco working to…
MANILA, Philippines – Hundreds of women activists in pink and purple shirts protested against President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines on Thursday, as marches and demonstrations in Asia kicked off International Women's Day. Protest leaders sang and danced in a…