GAUHATI, India – Police say nearly 1,000 people dragged two suspects out of a police station and beat them to death in anger after the rape and killing of a 5-year-old girl in India's remote northeast. Police officer Apur Bitin…
BERLIN – A German man has been fined 208,000 euros ($258,000) for cheating at a supermarket self-service till. Munich's district court convicted the 58-year-old businessman of theft for trying to pass off 47 euros-worth of veal liver as cheaper fruit.…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's foreign ministry says Indian troops have opened fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing an 8-year-old boy. The ministry says Pakistan summoned an Indian diplomat on Tuesday to lodge a protest over the killing. Islamabad…
MANILA, Philippines – The leader of the largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines says Islamic State group-aligned militants planned but failed to attack another southern city after their deadly siege in Marawi was crushed last year. Al Haj Murad…
TOKYO – A U.S. fighter jet has dumped fuel tanks into a lake in northern Japan, narrowly missing a dozen fishermen catching clams in the water. Nobody was injured. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement that an F-16…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's official IRNA news agency says the foreign ministry has summoned Sweden's ambassador over the Nordic country decision to grant citizenship to an Iranian researcher who is in jail in Tehran. Tuesday's report says the ministry summoned…
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Sinabung that shot ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) high also "annihilated" the mountain's summit. Before and after images from Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation show an enormous chunk missing…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli police have named the two close associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested for their suspected role in a wide-ranging corruption probe. With a gag order lifted Tuesday, police identified them as Nir Hefetz, a former…
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan officials say insurgents have killed nine policemen in separate attacks in the country's west and east. In western Farah province, attacks on police checkpoints killed eight policemen. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the Farah governor, says…
AMMAN, Jordan – Amer Othman's life turned upside down in an instant. The Ohio entrepreneur, who came to the United States 38 years ago and won praise for helping revive once-blighted downtown Youngstown, was arrested during what he thought was…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian media have updated the death toll from clashes the previous night with Sufi followers in Tehran, saying two members of the paramilitary forces were also killed, as well as three policemen. The semi-official Fars news agency…
CARACAS, Venezuela – On many days, Ramon Medina has no choice but to skip work to make ends meet. Like around half of Venezuelans, he earns the minimum wage — the equivalent of around $3 a month — so whenever…
MEXICO CITY – A gray whale has been returned safely to the Pacific Ocean after three days beached on the coast of Mexico's Baja California Sur state. The federal environmental protection agency says in a statement that the whale swam…
Chloe Ayling is seen in this undated photo. (Fotogramma/Ropi via ZUMA Press) Video of British model Chloe Ayling retracing her movements during the week that she was allegedly kidnapped and held for ransom was played in a Milan courtroom Monday…
Oxfam’s deputy chief executive on Monday resigned amid a scandal involving sex abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Penny Lawrence says she’s ashamed of what happened on her watch. Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt is demanding that Oxfam show moral…
LIMA, Peru – A court in Peru has determined that former Peruvian strongman Alberto Fujimori can be tried in connection with a 1992 massacre despite his recent pardon from a 25-year jail sentence. The ruling Monday paves the way for…
As North Koreans return home this week from the Pyeongchang Winter Games, possibly without any medals, Olympians hope to avoid the gulags — a fate the losers of the 1966 World Cup are believed to have experienced. Twenty-two North Koreans participated…
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico – Mexican marines have captured an alleged top boss of the Gulf drug cartel in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. A statement from the Mexican navy says the suspect it identifies only as Jose Alfredo, with…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his annual "State of Hungary" speech in Budapest Sunday. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used his annual state of the nation speech to ramp up anti-immigration rhetoric Sunday, warning that…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal judge has approved a $300 million loan for Puerto Rico's power company that officials say will help keep it operating until late March. Monday's ruling comes just days after the judge had rejected…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican experts say the recently mapped Sac Actun cave system "is probably the most important underwater archaeological site in the world," but is threatened by pollution. Subaquatic archaeologist Guillermo de Anda says researchers found a human skull…
SAO PAULO – A Brazilian leader says that use of the military to combat rising violence in Rio de Janeiro could be a test case for other violent areas of Brazil. The military took over Rio's police on Friday under…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says a supporter of a Sufi leader has rammed a bus into police, killing three of them before being arrested. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Mohsen Hamedani, a senior security official…
GALAXIDI, Greece – For a few hours every year, residents and visitors of this pretty Greek seaside town have a license to lose their civility. They have what's known as a "flour war" — participants pelt each other with bags…