WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand has censured its second-ranking diplomat in Washington after she sent tweets saying U.S. Democrats needed to get their act together for the next presidential election "or we will all die." Deputy Head of Mission…
MEXICO CITY – Mexico City took ownership on Tuesday of a lot where a seven-story office building collapsed in September's deadly earthquake, clearing the way for a planned park memorializing victims of the disaster. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera signed a…
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada – A Caribbean seismic research center says an underwater volcano just north of Grenada may be about to erupt but does not pose a tsunami threat to the region. The University of the West Indies Seismic Research…
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it received 138 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in 2017, some involving multiple perpetrators and victims and over 40 percent arising from U.N. peacekeeping missions. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report…
COLON, Panama – A protest over infrastructure and insecurity turned into violent clashes with police Tuesday in Panama's second biggest city, which is home to a strategic port at the northern end of the Panama Canal. Demonstrators are angry over…
CARACAS, Venezuela – Witnesses say they've seen the arrest of a former spy chief for Hugo Chavez who has been leading a movement of alienated leftists opposed to President Nicolas Maduro. Two aides to Miguel Rodriguez Torres say he was…
MEXICO CITY – Three state police officers in Mexico's Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo face administrative charges after photos posted on social media showed policemen posing for pictures with topless bathers. The state government wouldn't say what specifically the…
PARIS – French counterterrorism police have detained five people suspected of helping jihadis who left France to join the battlefields of Syria and Iraq. A judicial official told The Associated Press that four men and one woman were arrested Tuesday…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his coalition has struck a compromise to avoid taking the country to early elections. Netanyahu's coalition had been divided over a bill that would grant exemptions from military service to ultra-Orthodox Jewish…
MEXICO CITY – A Mexican mayor who gained fame by saying "I stole, but a little," actually stole a lot, according to a complaint filed by his state assembly. The legislature of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit says former…
BERLIN – Berlin police say far-right extremists tried to stoke hatred against migrants by spreading false information about the killing of a teenage girl in the German capital last week. Spokesman Winfrid Wenzel says police are examining whether to bring…
Several people were injured after a strong tornado reportedly ripped through a city in southern Italy on Monday. The twister caused several shop and street signs to fall into the streets of Caserta, including a Burger King sign that crushed…
LONDON – The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain (all times local): 6:00 p.m. Russia's Foreign Ministry has sternly warned Britain against shutting the office of Russian state-funded RT television, saying it will lead to…
Nikolai Glushkov was found dead at his home Monday night. (AP) Another Russian exile living in London was found dead late Monday night, just a little more than a week since a former Kremlin spy and his daughter were poisoned.…
As the Iranian new year approaches, anti-regime protesters are taking to the streets in a show of force to the country’s Ayatollah, demanding greater freedoms like Internet access. The Fox News Investigative Unit, using the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp, interviewed…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. adviser on preventing genocide says all information he has received indicates the Myanmar government intended to cleanse Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine state and possibly even destroy them "which, if proven, would constitute the crime of…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Authorities in the Dominican Republic have dispatched additional police officers and soldiers to a border town amid fears of reprisals against Haitians after the death of a local couple in a machete attack. The reinforcements…
LONDON – A Russian businessman who was associated with a prominent critic of the Kremlin has died in London, his lawyer said Tuesday. Police are treating the death as unexplained and have put counterterrorism detectives in charge of the case.…
ROME – The leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement is insisting on becoming the country's premier without offering specifics on ending postelection political gridlock. Luigi Di Maio, whose movement won 32 percent of the March 4 vote, said at a news…
BERLIN – Judges in a high-profile German neo-Nazi murder trial have dismissed motions from defense lawyers to introduce new evidence, and accused them of trying to further delay proceedings. Lawyers for Beate Zschaepe , the only known survivor of the…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's justice official has expressed regret that Ireland is delaying the extradition of a wanted Pole and is seeking a European Union court's opinion on Poland's rule of law. The Justice Ministry was reacting Tuesday to a…
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday delivered a fiery denunciation of Moscow's alleged assassination attempt on a former Russian spy living in the UK, and promised consequences for the Kremlin if Russian president Vladimir Putin didn't explain himself by…
BENI, Congo – Authorities in northeastern Congo say more than 40 new deaths have been reported in an area where fighting has erupted between two communities in recent weeks. Willy Maese, deputy administrator in Djugu, said hundreds of homes were…
SKOPJE, Macedonia – A senior United States official is urging Macedonia and Greece to seize the moment to resolve a decades-long dispute over the Balkan country's name that has prevented it from joining NATO. Assistant Secretary of State for European…