North Korea: Who is Kim Yo Jong? In a historic move, South Korean President Moon Jae-In shook hands with Kim Yo Jong during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Who is North Korea's representative, Kim Yo Jong, and…
Colombian police officers stand in front of people assembling to try to cross into Colombia from Venezuela last month via Simón Bolívar International Bridge in Cúcuta, Colombia. (REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins ) Venezuela’s ongoing economic and political crisis has sparked a…
UNITED NATIONS – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is calling for an international peace conference by mid-2018 with key goals of full U.N. membership for the state of Palestine and a timeframe for resolving all issues with Israel for a two-state…
KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill aimed at reintegrating the territory in the country's east controlled by Russia-backed separatists. The bill passed last month designates the areas in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as "temporarily…
A 35-year-old defector is the new human face of the horrors in North Korea. Ji Seong-ho fled torture and starvation in North Korea in a remarkable escape story. Now he is the Trump’s administration’s newest weapon in its war of…
MADRID – Spain's Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a rapper who argued that his lyrics praising terror groups were protected by freedom of expression laws. The court ruled Tuesday that Jose Miguel Arenas Beltran, a rapper best known…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo's government has asked parliament to vote later this week on a revised version of a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. Opposition parties have steadfastly rejected the 2015 agreement, saying that Kosovo would lose territory. But the…
BERLIN – Berlin police have dismissed a nationalist party's claim that officers failed to protect participants in a weekend protest march. Several hundred people, including members of the Alternative for Germany party and far-right activists, marched in the German capital…
AMMAN, Jordan – The chairman of a U.S. Senate panel dealing with foreign aid says a recently signed agreement granting Jordan $1.275 billion a year through 2022 "is a floor" and that Congress is likely to authorize additional financial support…
BERLIN – German police say a Muslim woman wearing a veil covering her entire face and body was attacked and verbally abused inside a Berlin store. Police said Tuesday a 28-year-old woman insulted the victim and ripped the veil of…
SAO PAULO – Brazil's lower house has approved a decree to put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro's security forces amid a spike in violence. The military took over Friday, but the presidential decree still needs congressional approval.…
BRUSSELS – The Latest on migrant issues in Europe (all times local): 4:15 p.m. A Greek court in the northern city of Thessaloniki has convicted a Palestinian man of running a major migrant-smuggling ring and sentenced him to 13 years…
WARSAW, Poland – A regional official in Poland wants two fragments of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto put on a list of historical monuments. The proposal published on Tuesday says the red brick wall at 53 Sienna Street…
CARACAS, Venezuela – A Venezuelan opposition official says the largest parties in the broad anti-government coalition have decided to boycott an upcoming presidential election they say won't be free or fair. Lawmaker Edgar Zambrano told The Associated Press on Tuesday…
BUHERA, Zimbabwe – Thousands of people in Zimbabwe have gathered for the burial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose death from cancer exacerbated divisions within a movement preparing for elections this year. A hearse carrying Tsvangirai's body in a white…
MALE, Maldives – Maldives' parliament has approved a 30-day extension of a state of emergency declared by the president to strengthen his power after the Supreme Court ordered the release of imprisoned political opponents. The speaker of parliament, Abdulla Maseeh,…
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says public representatives will undergo "lifestyle audits" as part of his campaign to clean up the government. Ramaphosa said Tuesday that the scrutiny will start with the executive branch, and that he was…
PARIS – The French prosecutor's office says three people have been detained in France in connection with August's deadly attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. The arrests were made in the southern French regions of Tarn and Gard Tuesday after a…
VALLETTA, Malta – A fire in the arrivals lounge has forced the temporary closure of Malta's only airport. Incoming flights were diverted to Sicily, Italy and departing flights were delayed after the fire on Tuesday afternoon, which forced the evacuation…
The Danish inventor accused of murdering journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine reportedly texted a former lover he had "a murder plan ready in the submarine" just days before the fatal voyage. Peter Madsen, 47, planned…
BANGKOK – Rights groups are urging authorities in Myanmar to investigate and release information about two ethnic Kachin civilians believed to be held by soldiers in the country's north, where fighting has raged between government forces and armed Kachin rebels.…
BRUSSELS – The head of the European Union's border agency says the number of migrants trying to reach Europe through the Mediterranean will remain high this year, with more expected to arrive through Spain. Fabrice Leggeri told reporters Tuesday that…
BERLIN – Members of Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party have started voting on whether to accept the coalition agreement negotiated by their leaders with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc on forming a new government. SPD leaders promised to give the…
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A Bangladeshi official says Myanmar has agreed to resettle more than 6,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been stranded in a no man's land between the two countries, as plans for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of…