SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's president says many "critical moments" still lie ahead to end the nuclear crisis despite North Korea's recent outreach to Seoul and Washington. Moon Jae-in spoke on Thursday morning before two senior Seoul officials were…
MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has issued a new travel alert for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen, where an explosion on a tourist ferry injured 26 people last month. The embassy says in an…
A man pushes a cart past damaged buildings in Syria this week. (Reuters) The United Nations Security Council renewed calls on Wednesday to implement a 30-day cease-fire across Syria after a resolution to deliver humanitarian aid during that period remained…
An officer blocks a street when police is on the hunt for an attacker after several people have been injured in a knife attack on the streets of Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) Several people have…
President Trump may have just forced North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un to come the negotiating table…with maybe just a little help from Twitter. Experts say that Trump’s strategy dealing with the rogue regime – a combination of tweeted warnings…
MEXICO CITY – Mexico City officials say intentional sabotage may be contributing to recurrent water shortages that have caused protests on the streets of the city of 9 million people. In recent weeks, officials have blamed dry faucets in many…
PREKAZ, Kosovo – Hundreds of Kosovo ethnic Albanians have gathered in a western town to celebrate the Night of Fires, the launch of the armed resistance to late Serbian Slobodan Milosevic's regime 20 years ago. People holding lit torches assembled…
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The Latest on Sierra Leone's election (all times local): 8:30 p.m. Authorities in Sierra Leone's capital report clashes have broken out amid political tensions on Election Day. Voters were choosing between 16 candidates, though the skirmishes…
Several people have been injured in a knife attack in Vienna on Wednesday, Austrian news outlets reported. Three people are "seriously injured," according to the Austria Press Agency. Police are reportedly searching for a "man who randomly attacked pedestrians near…
BERLIN – Austrian media report that several people have been injured in a knife attack on the streets of Vienna. News website heute.at reports that the attack happened Wednesday evening, when a man with a knife randomly attacked pedestrians near…
The North Koreans have a term that the regime tells them how to characterize Americans. It is: "American bastards." "When we are describing American people, they never spoken the word, 'American people.' It's ‘American bastards,’" said Seongmin Lee, a 31-year-old…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina's state news agency says the last military president from the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship has died at age 90. Telam is reporting that Reynaldo Bignone died Wednesday at a military hospital in Buenos Aires. He had…
ATHENS, Greece – A Greek prosecutor has charged seven men with alleged membership in a violent neo-Nazi group linked to a series of arson attacks on far-left and migrant-related targets. All seven Greeks were formally accused Wednesday of membership in…
AIGLE, Switzerland – The head of cycling's world governing body wants an investigation into the findings of a doping report that accused Team Sky of using drugs to enhance the performance of Bradley Wiggins and possibly other riders ahead of…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovak President Andrej Kiska says the country's government ignored warnings from intelligence services about the activities of an Italian criminal syndicate whose members are suspected of possible involvement in the slayings of an investigative journalist and his…
A former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in a "targeted" act, British authorities revealed Wednesday. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said a police officer who came into contact with the substance that sickened…
IRBIL, Iraq – Dozens of bodies of alleged Islamic State group fighters continue to litter a neighborhood in Mosul's Old City some eight months after Iraq declared victory over the extremists there. The Nineveh governor's office says they lack the…
CAIRO – Arab foreign ministers are insisting that Jerusalem must be the capital of a future Palestinian state, even as the U.S. prepares to move its embassy there in a step that has angered the Arab world. A ministerial meeting…
TEHRAN, Iran – A Tehran prosecutor says a woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in public in late December has been sentenced to 24 months in prison. Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency on Wednesday quoted prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi…
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala's president says he will withdraw army troops from day-to-day law enforcement duties following accusations that soldiers were involved in corruption and criminal activities. President Jimmy Morales said Wednesday that starting March 31, soldiers will be detailed…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – President Donald Trump hasn't spoken much about Africa, and what he's said has been far from flattering. It falls to his top diplomat, on his first official visit to the continent, to show the United States…
British authorities plan to reveal new information Wednesday about the mysterious substance that left a former Russian spy and his daughter in critical condition. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said officials would make a statement later in the day about what…
PARIS – The Eiffel Tower will light up to honor women's rights and promote the French equivalent of the Time's Up movement. The message "Maintenant On Agit" ("Now We Act") will be displayed all Wednesday evening on the Parisian monument…
MEXICO CITY – Officials in western Mexico say eight hacked-up bodies have been found in a pickup truck abandoned in the city of Guadalajara. A state official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Wednesday that experts…