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…
SRINAGAR, India – A gunbattle between Indian troops and rebels early Monday killed three insurgents in disputed Kashmir and triggered more anti-India protests and clashes, officials said. The fighting began before dawn after government forces raided a cluster of homes…
TOKYO – Japan's Finance Ministry has acknowledged doctoring documents in a widening scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife that has rattled his government. The doctored documents related to the 2016 sale of state land to a school operator…
BEIJING – South Korea's national security director is holding meetings in Beijing following word of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Chung Eui-yong was briefing top…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says insurgents have taken control of a district headquarters in western Farah province. Fared Bakhtawer, the head provincial council in Farah, said Monday that initial information shows around 15 security forces were killed and…
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said in a new film he ordered – but later pulled back – the shooting down of a passenger plane in 2014 after officials believed a man with a bomb was targeting the Winter Olympic Games…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian voters turned to right-wing parties critical of the country's peace deal with the main leftist rebels and knocked the current president's party down in congressional elections, raising questions about the future of the accord. Sunday's vote…
BEIJING – China's steel mills, a target of U.S. President Donald Trump's ire, are their industry's 800-pound gorilla: They supply half of world output, so every move they make has a global impact. Trump responded last week with a blanket…
VIENNA – Police say an Austrian attacker was shot and killed by the guard he wounded outside the Iranian ambassador's residence in Vienna. Police spokesman Harald Soros said the guard was wounded in the arm before he shot the attacker…
A private jet similar to the aircraft seen here crashed in Iran, killing a socialite and her bachelorette party, according to reports. (AP Photo/Yigit Cicekci, File) A Turkish private jet flying a wealthy socialite and her bachelorette party from the…
HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese police have arrested a senior police official suspected of involvement in an international gambling ring as the ruling Communist Party pushes its crackdown on graft. The Ministry of Public Security said on its website that the…
HONG KONG – Final results show Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates have won back two of four seats in a crucial by-election in the semiautonomous Chinese region. According to Monday's tally, the opposition was not able to recapture all its territory,…
ATHENS, Greece – A disputed goal at the end of a Greek league match on Sunday between leader AEK and title rival PAOK led to a pitch invasion by one of the team owners, who appeared to be carrying a…
ROME – A Spanish humanitarian group says it has rescued three migrant brothers who set out from Libya in a rubber dinghy to seek leukemia treatment for one of them. Riccardo Gatti of the aid group Proactiva Open Arms told…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a rudimentary or homemade explosive device was responsible for a tourist ferry blast that injured 26 people Feb. 21 in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen. But Deputy Attorney General Arturo Elias…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a rudimentary or homemade explosive device was responsible for a tourist ferry blast that injured 26 people Feb. 21 in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen. But Deputy Attorney General Arturo Elias…
TEHRAN, Iran – A Turkish private jet flying a group of young women from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul crashed Sunday in heavy rain in a mountainous region of Iran, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said. Days…
BITOLA, Macedonia – Thousands of people have marched in southern Macedonia to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the deportation and eventual death of almost the country's entire Jewish population. Public officials, civic group representatives and relatives of former Macedonian Jews…
ORESTIADA, Greece – Over one thousand people have gathered in northeastern Greece to demand the return of two Greek soldiers who have been held in neighboring Turkey since the beginning of March. The rally in the town of Orestiada on…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan state television reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has arrived in Islamabad as the head of a politico-economic delegation. During his three-day visit, which began Sunday, Zarif will hold talks with the Pakistani prime minister,…
TEHRAN, Iran – The official news agency of Iran's judiciary says a British-Iranian national has been sentenced to six years in prison on spying charges. The report Sunday night by the Mizan news agency did not elaborate or identify the…
JERUSALEM – An Israeli government official says a last-ditch attempt to approve the reunification of hundreds of families split between Israel and Ethiopia has fallen through. The families are relying on the Cabinet to agree to fund the immigration of…
WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of Poles have gathered in Warsaw to express their solidarity with Jews who perished in the Holocaust, were expelled from Poland 50 years ago or feel targeted by a new wave of anti-Semitism today. Speakers at…