JOHANNESBURG – A U.S.-based wildlife conservation group says authorities in Tanzania have arrested and charged eight people for the murder of the group's co-founder Wayne Lotter, who was shot in Dar es Salaam last year. The PAMS Foundation on Friday…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council scheduled a vote Friday on a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded. The resolution would allow attacks directed at…
BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors have demanded that the country's top judicial body defend their reputations, saying the independence of the justice system is at stake. The 135 prosecutors said Friday they had asked the Supreme Council of Magistrates…
TORONTO – Canadian police say they've charged an alleged serial killer with one additional charge of murder, bringing the total to six. Police believe there are more victims. Detective Sgt. Hank Idsinga said Friday they have now identified the remains…
MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Somali police official says two car bomb blasts have rocked the capital, Mogadishu, followed by sustained gunfire. Three people have been killed. Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the first blast, apparently caused by a suicide car bomber,…
PARIS – The French prosecutor's office says an unnamed person detained in France in connection with the August extremist attacks in Spain will be handed preliminary charges. The prosecutor's office said Friday that the suspect is being held as part…
BERLIN – Police say two people are dead after a shooting in Switzerland's biggest city, Zurich. They say the situation is under control. City police said they rushed to the scene near the central train station after passers-by reported hearing…
MOSCOW – A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry is brushing off suggestions that the discovery of hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of cocaine in a school attached to Moscow's Argentina embassy harms the mission's reputation. On Thursday, Argentina's security minister announced…
ISTANBUL – Turkey's official news agency says a court has ruled that three academics who signed a peace petition committed terror propaganda but deferred a final verdict for five years. Anadolu news agency said the Istanbul court on Friday originally…
BANGKOK – Myanmar's parliament has approved a budget of about $15 million for the construction of a fence and related projects along the border with Bangladesh in Rakhine state, from which about 700,000 members of its persecuted ethnic Rohingya Muslim…
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine foreign secretary says one of two suspects in the gruesome death of a Filipina housemaid whose body was found stuffed in a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait has been arrested in Lebanon. Foreign Secretary…
PARIS – France has unveiled a vast new program to counter radicalization, as jihadis return from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq and the watch list of people showing risk signs grows. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Friday announced the…
JUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan's special high court has sentenced a South African military veteran to execution by hanging. Retired colonel William Endley, a former adviser to past Vice President Riek Machar, had been convicted on charges of conspiracy…
DAPCHI, Nigeria – The sound of gunfire rang out as residents gathered for evening prayers at the mosque. Soon the armed fighters showed up in their trucks and made their target clear: Where was the girls' school, they asked. Usman…
JERUSALEM – The Israel military says an initial inquiry suggests that a Palestinian whose beating by soldiers was caught on video may have died from tear gas inhalation. Friday's statement came ahead of an autopsy and did not elaborate. The…
BEIRUT – The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local): 2:25 p.m. A main Syrian opposition group is calling on the international community to prevent Russia from voting on a new U.N. Security Council resolution saying Moscow is part…
BRUSSELS – The Latest on European Union meeting on West Africa's Sahel region (all times local): 1:05 p.m. The European Union's top diplomat says donors have pledged 414 million euros ($510 million) to five impoverished countries in West Africa's Sahel…
BERLIN – The German government says one of its citizens held in Turkey has been released, but must remain in the country. The foreign ministry's announcement Friday follows the release last week of German journalist Deniz Yucel, who had been…
JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he has undergone medical tests while in the United States and that he is in good health. Speaking on Palestine TV late Thursday night Abbas said "it was a good opportunity to be…
BRUSSELS – European leaders — minus Britain's prime minister — are meeting to discuss how the bloc will cope with a multibillion-euro hole in its budget caused by Brexit. Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, a former EU budget commissioner, said Friday…
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has shown her conservative party that she's still very much in charge and keen to shape its future, installing a close ally who's popular in her own right in a top party post following…
KAMPALA, Uganda – Rwandan police say five Congolese refugees have been killed in a protest over reduced food rations, with the U.N. refugee agency saying police fired at the protesters. Police say in a statement that another 15 people were…
BREBES, Indonesia – Heavy rains hampered the search for victims of a landslide on the Indonesian island of Java as authorities raised the death toll to seven. The chief of the disaster mitigation agency in Brebes, Eko Andalas, said a…
NEW DELHI – Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the U.S. president, is to make a foreign policy speech at a business summit during his whirlwind trip to India where he has been promoting Trump-brand real estate. The business…