PARIS – The sole surviving suspect from the November 2015 Paris extremist attacks has agreed for the first time to answer questions about others accused of involvement. A source close to the case told The Associated Press that Salah Abdeslam…
JUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan has suspended a United Nations radio station for allegedly refusing to comply with the country's media laws, although the station has not yet been taken off the air. On Friday, the Media Authority, an…
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – The spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban says the son of their chief, Mullah Fazlullah, was among 21 "holy warriors" killed this week when missiles fired by a U.S. drone struck a seminary in Afghanistan. Mohammad…
MADRID – Spain's Supreme Court has turned down a request from a jailed Catalan separatist leader to attend the northeastern region's parliament, where lawmakers are due to vote on whether to make him president of Catalonia. Judge Pablo LLarena wrote…
The British government deployed the military Friday to help with its probe of the mysterious nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter -- an apparent assassination attempt that also left 19 others seeking medical treatment. The Metropolitan…
MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine police official says an alleged former commander of the Islamic State group in Syria who was arrested recently in Manila will not be freed even after a prosecutor dropped criminal complaints of illegal possession of…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Turkey's president says Turkish troops and Ankara-backed opposition fighters have encircled the main city in a Syrian Kurdish-held enclave in northwest Syria and are on the…
BENGHAZI, Libya – A military spokesman says a car bomb explosion has killed at least three security personnel at a checkpoint south of the northeastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya. Faisal Ahbale said Friday's attack took place at the town's southern…
PRAGUE – The Latest on the slaying of a journalist and his fiancee in Slovakia (all times local): 1:45 p.m. Slovakia's top three politicians have failed to agree on a common declaration meant to calm the tense situation in the…
GENEVA – The United Nations' human rights chief has suggested that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte "needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation" over his "unacceptable" remarks about some top human rights defenders. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein demanded that…
SEOUL, South Korea – After a year of threats and diatribes, U.S. President Donald Trump and third-generation North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un have agreed to meet face-to-face for talks about the North's nuclear program. It remains to be seen…
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican says Pope Francis will visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Sept. 22-25 as the three Baltic nations celebrate their 100th anniversaries. The Vatican confirmed the trip Friday, saying Francis would visit Vilnius and Kaunas in…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Pakistani police say they have arrested a key suspect sought for inciting the lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy in the country's northwest. District police chief Saeed Khan said on Friday that…
NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya's president and opposition leader say they met for talks, months after the presidential elections sparked turmoil as the opposition charged there was electoral fraud. President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Friday they…
DJIBOUTI – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson drew a distinction Friday between "talks" with North Korea and "negotiations," arguing that President Donald Trump's willingness to chat with Kim Jong Un shouldn't be construed as anything more than that. The…
LONDON – The British official in charge of public safety is visiting the area in the English city of Salisbury where a former Russian spy collapsed after he was targeted with an undisclosed nerve agent. Home Secretary Amber Rudd is…
KANDY, Sri Lanka – Calm is beginning to return to violence-hit Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka's Kandy region, with many shops reopening as army reinforcements put an end to Buddhist mob attacks that hit the area. Army commander Mahesh Senanayake…
BERLIN – Germany's center-left Social Democrats party is proposing a mix of veterans and newcomers for ministerial posts in the country's next government. The party's membership on Sunday approved continuing the current "grand coalition" with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Union…
TOKYO – President Donald Trump could become the first sitting U.S. president to visit North Korea if plans for a summit with Kim Jong Un hold. But other prominent American political figures have visited Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, in the…
TOKYO – Japan's finance ministry has confirmed the death of an official linked to a scandal potentially involving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife. Ministry officials acknowledged the employee's death at a parliamentary hearing Friday, but refused to give details. Local…
TOKYO – A Japanese court on Friday sentenced a Peruvian man to hang for killing six people over several days in 2015 near Tokyo. The Saitama District Court convicted 32-year-old Jonathan Nakada of the murders committed in Kumagaya, north of…
BEIRUT – Amid a lull in Damascus' embattled rebel-held suburbs, the International Committee of the Red Cross says it's delivering the remaining aid to eastern Ghouta. ICRC says a convoy of 13 trucks, including food parcels for 12,000 people, has…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia's Supreme Court has rejected an application for bail for an opposition leader charged with treason who is seeking to be released for medical treatment abroad. The court ruled Friday that Kem Sokha must be kept…
KABUL, Afghanistan – The Latest on developments in Afghanistan (all times local): 1:15 p.m. An Afghan official says a suicide bomber targeting a gathering of ethnic Hazaras in the capital, Kabul, blew himself up at a police checkpoint outside the…