SHAH ALAM, Malaysia – A lawyer says the Vietnamese woman accused of killing the North Korean leader's half brother told police she realized she had been used to murder him after she was detained. Doan Thi Huong and co-defendant Siti…
GAUHATI, India – A tiny wildlife sanctuary in northeastern India has reported a jump in the number of one-horned rhinoceroses. Pradipta Baruah, supervisor of a census carried out Sunday at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, says there are now 102 one-horned…
Chinese President Xi Jinping took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump on Tuesday during his nationalistic address to parliament regarding Taiwan. (Reuters) Chinese President Xi Jinping took a veiled shot at President Donald Trump on Tuesday during his nationalistic…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired. Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territory is still struggling to recover from the…
PACARAIMA, Brazil – Hungry and destitute, tens of thousands of victims of Venezuela's unrelenting political and economic crisis are trying their luck in Brazil — a country where they do not speak the language, conditions are often poor and there…
TOKYO – The Latest on the anniversary of the 1995 Tokyo subway nerve gas attack (all times local): 12:40 p.m. Tokyo subway employees have marked the 23rd anniversary of a nerve gas attack that killed 13 people and sickened thousands…
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – An envoy says Maldives will not extend the state of emergency that is due to expire on Wednesday amid criticism of the government over the recent political turmoil. Mohamed Hussain Shareef, ambassador to neighboring Sri Lanka,…
BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping has struck a stridently nationalistic tone in his closing address to the annual session of the ceremonial parliament at which term limits on his rule were abolished. Xi told the nearly 3,000 delegates to…
Russia used a procedural vote to halt a United Nations Security Council meeting from taking place Monday on the human rights crisis in Syria -- but other members including the United States outmaneuvered the Russians by calling for an informal…
TOKYO – Thirteen Japanese cult members may be sent to the gallows any day now for a deadly 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes. But when is uncertain. Such is the secrecy that surrounds Japan's…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. human rights chief told an informal meeting of the Security Council Monday that the Syrian government's five-year siege of the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta has involved "pervasive war crimes," use of chemical weapons and…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 1 a.m. Eight Security Council nations say it's "imperative" that the U.N. body Council "immediately pursue decisive action" to achieve a cease-fire in Syria if U.N. member states,…
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – A prosecutor in Uruguay is asking for formal charges against a former vice president of the South American country. Lawmakers accepted Raul Sendic's resignation last year amid corruption accusations involving his tenure as head of state oil…
Romain Franck, an employee of France's Consulate in Jerusalem is under arrest for allegedly smuggling dozens of weapons from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. (Israeli Security Authority) An employee of France's Consulate in Jerusalem is under arrest for…
NEW DELHI – An Indian company that is partnering with the Trump Organization on an office tower project outside New Delhi has been accused of running an elaborate real estate swindle that cheated investors out of nearly $150 million. Documents…
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia's Interior Ministry says a suspected extremist blew himself up in the Ben Guerdane area near the border with Libya following a standoff with police. The man's identity hasn't been disclosed. The ministry said in a statement…
A spokesperson for Bermuda police said that a body has been found in the search for 19-year-old St. Joseph's University student Mark Dombroski. (Bermuda Police Service) The American college student from Pennsylvania who went missing in the British island territory…
HAMILTON, Bermuda – The Latest on the American student reported missing in Bermuda (all times local): 5:30 p.m. A police spokesman in Bermuda says authorities have found a body amid a search for a U.S. student who disappeared after a…
MEXICO CITY – Mexico's governmental human rights agency says municipal police were complicit in at least 38 abductions and killings in the town of Allende in northern Coahuila state, near the U.S. border. The National Human Rights Commission issued a…
RIO DE JANEIRO – A Norwegian aluminum maker operating in Brazil is apologizing for polluting a river and promising to make changes so that it doesn't happen again. In a statement Monday, the CEO of Norsk Hydro, Svein Richard Brandtzaeg,…
SKOPJE, Macedonia – A Macedonian court has overturned the more than decade-old terrorism convictions of 10 ethnic Albanian men, many of whom served long prison terms over a mine attack on a NATO vehicle. The Skopje criminal ruled that there…
MADRID – Spanish police say the man suspected of plotting an ISIS-inspired attack in Colombia appeared on their radar for his hate-filled messages toward the United States, a country where he had lived and was allegedly trying to get to.…
HAVANA – Cuba has opened up its first wholesale market in an economy dominated by government-run enterprises. State-run newspaper Granma says the market is part of an ongoing effort to "reorganize" commerce on the communist island. The market will sell…
PODGORICA, Montenegro – Montenegro's ruling party has nominated its leader, who took the tiny Balkan country into NATO in defiance of Russia, to be its candidate in next month's presidential election. The Democratic Party of Socialists' leadership announced the decision…