LONDON – Two far-right figures say they have been deported from Britain after being detained when trying to enter the country. Austrian Martin Sellner of the Generation Identity group and American commentator Brittany Pettibone tweeted Monday that they were denied…
MADRID – Lawyers for a prominent Catalan secessionist being held in a Madrid jail have made another request to Spain's Supreme Court for him to be allowed to attend a plenary session in the northeastern region's parliament. Separatist Catalan lawmakers…
BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel says "it's finally time to start work" as Germany's new government prepares to take office nearly six months after the country's election. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, its Bavaria-only sister party the Christian Social Union, and…
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh's High Court has granted bail for four months to opposition leader and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, who was jailed on a corruption conviction and is awaiting an appeal. The court made the decision Monday, but…
ATHENS, Greece – Greek police are seeking the gun-toting owner of PAOK Thessaloniki and four others after they marched onto the soccer field following a disputed goal at the end of a league match. PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis walked onto…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – The Latest on a plane crash at the Kathmandu airport (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A police official says at least 38 people were killed and 23 injured when a plane crashed as it landed at the…
At least 38 people were killed when a Bangladeshi passenger plane crashed and burst into flames Monday as it landed at Kathmandu airport in Nepal, a police official said. At least 23 people were injured and 10 others are still…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the developments in Syria (all times local): 12:30 p.m. The largest rebel group in Syria's eastern Ghouta region, just outside the capital of Damascus, says it has agreed with Russian forces to have wounded people…
BEIRUT – Syrian TV says another group of civilians has left the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta outside Damascus through a corridor established by the Syrian army The state-run TV broadcast footage showing a small group of men, women and…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakian Interior Minister Robert Kalinak has resigned from his post amid the crisis following the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee. Kalinak's resignation was a key requirement of a junior party in the government to…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a late-night compromise with his ultra-Orthodox coalition allies that could avert early elections. A parliamentary committee approved a bill on Monday to extend military draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox men, but the…
VATICAN CITY – In five years, the world has gotten to know Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina who was so self-deprecating that when he emerged on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica on March 13,…
VATICAN CITY – The humble empathy and the ease with which he walks in others' shoes has won Pope Francis admirers around the globe and confirmed his place as a consummate champion of the poor and disenfranchised. But as he…
Emergency crews responded to a passenger plane that crashed as it landed at Nepal's Kathmandu airport. Casualties feared. (Saroj Basnet) A Nepalese airport official said Monday that a passenger plane crashed as it landed at Kathmandu airport, prompting a massive…
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian news website says Revolutionary Guard troops have thwarted a twin suicide attack near the Pakistan border, killing both would-be bombers. Monday's report by Sepahnews.com says the assailants tried to attack a border outpost belonging to…
BRUSSELS – The European Union has prolonged sanctions against senior Russian officials, lawmakers and military officers for a further six months over alleged meddling in Ukraine. EU headquarters said in a statement Monday that "an assessment of the situation did…
KATHMANDU, Nepal – An airport official says a US-Bangla Airlines passenger plane has crashed as it landed at Kathmandu airport. It wasn't immediately clear if there were fatalities. Clouds of thick smoke could be seen rising from the plane, which…
MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa – Congo's top opposition leader and other figures opposed to longtime President Joseph Kabila are meeting in South Africa to build a coalition ahead of long-delayed elections in the turbulent, resource-rich country. Delegates gathering at a resort…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The BBC says its journalists will appeal for the first time to the United Nations over what the British broadcaster describes as the "persecution and harassment" of those affiliated with its Persian service by Iran.…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has sworn in the newly elected members of the Senate, including for the first time a woman from the marginalized Hindu minority. Krishna Kumari who hails from the so-called untouchables — the lowest in the caste system…
BANGKOK – Amnesty International says Myanmar's military is building installations on land in villages that had been occupied by Muslim Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh after their homes were burned down in what analysts charge was a campaign of…
BERLIN – Austrian police say they have no information yet on the motives of a man who attacked a guard outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna and was then fatally shot. Police said the guard, a 23-year-old Austrian soldier,…
SYDNEY – Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that it doesn't matter whether or not China has a change in leadership, the culture and the system will always remain the same. Ai's comments came a day after China's rubber-stamp…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says that authorities have recovered the "black box" from a Turkish private jet that crashed in Iran while traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, killing all 11 people onboard. Monday's…