JERUSALEM – Israeli media say a third confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to turn state witness and testify against the prime minister, who faces a wave of corruption allegations. Various outlets say longtime Netanyahu family spokesman Nir Hefetz agreed…
YANGON, Myanmar – About 200 people have marched in Myanmar's biggest city to protest government plans to amend a law governing public demonstrations to make it easier to charge participants with crimes and increase the penalties for violations. The Peaceful…
WARSAW, Poland – The head of a Polish team of climbers says they have given up their attempt to make the first ever winter ascent of the world's second highest peak, K2. Krzysztof Wielicki said Monday they were wrapping up…
CAIRO – Egypt is giving a warm welcome to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is visiting the Suez Canal on the second of his three-day visit to the Arab world's most populous country. Posters featuring Salman's face alongside…
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkey has requested that German authorities detain and extradite a Syrian Kurdish politician wanted in the country. Anadolu Agency reported Monday that Turkey requested that Germany extradite Salih Muslim, the former co-chair…
South Korean delegation is set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a dinner in Pyongyang on Monday evening, making it the first time South Korean officials meet Kim in person since he took power in 2011…
BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian journalists have criticized the mayor of the western city of Timisoara for using "aggressive and insulting language" about reporters. Timisoara Mayor Nicolae Robu labeled some journalists "social parasites who live off protection ... taxes" in a…
BEIRUT – The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 12:20 p.m. The U.N.'s top human rights body has called for U.N.-mandated investigators for Syria to conduct an urgent and targeted probe of recent violence in the eastern…
WARSAW, Poland – Firefighters say they have found the body of a fifth victim in the rubble of an apartment block that collapsed in western Poland. Firefighters and rescuers with dogs have been searching through the debris of the building…
BEIRUT – The Syrian government says it has achieved "significant" progress in its ongoing military operation in rebel-held suburbs east of Damascus, seizing around 36 percent of the total area held by different armed groups. Syria's Central Military Media says…
EDIRNE, Turkey – The Lawyers for two Greek soldiers arrested in Turkey have formally requested their release from custody. The two were arrested last week for allegedly entering a Turkish military zone and on suspicion of attempted espionage. Greece said…
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed the coalition deal and says, "It's important that we start quickly with our work." Merkel was speaking Monday, a day after the center-left Social Democrats voted overwhelmingly to remain in a coalition…
PARIS – The Venezuelan extremist known as Carlos the Jackal is back on trial for a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade. A lower court convicted Carlos last year of the attack and handed him his third life…
MELBOURNE, Australia – The most senior Catholic Church leader to be charged with sexual abuse came close to confronting his accusers on Monday in a video-linked Australian court hearing to test the strength of the prosecution case. Cardinal George Pell's…
ROME – The Latest on Italy's parliamentary election (all times local): French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is celebrating the strong showing of the anti-immigrant, euroskeptic League party in Italy's election. Le Pen, the runnerup in last year's French presidential…
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government's legal counsel has asked the Supreme Court to expel the chief justice for not declaring her assets in a new attempt to remove the nation's judicial leader. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno went on…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has rejected a request from an opposition leader for talks about the country's political problems, denigrating archrival Sam Rainsy as a traitor and a convict. Hun Sen was responding to a…
ROME – Preliminary results released by Italy's interior ministry show the center-right coalition winning about 37 percent of the parliamentary vote and the 5-Star Movement getting about 31 percent, with the center-left coalition far behind with 23 percent. With no…
MEXICO CITY – Phil Mickelson knew this was coming, even when he had so little to show for it. Mickelson had gone 101 tournaments around the world since he last won at Muirfield in the 2013 British Open, which moved…
BEIJING – The Latest on the annual meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing (all times local): 2 p.m. China's top economic official, Premier Li Keqiang, has promised more market opening and cuts in a bloated steel industry that…
ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish prosecutor's office says police have detained 12 suspected Islamic State militants in the capital of Ankara and are searching for eight others. A statement from the Ankara chief prosecutor's office says the suspects were nabbed…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani police say a passenger bus has collided head on with an oil tanker on an inter-city highway, killing nine people and injuring 30. A police officer says the accident took place near the garrison city of Rawalpindi.…
BEIRUT – There have been many goodbyes in eastern Ghouta — more than 600 in the past two weeks. That is the estimated number of civilians killed in the Syrian military's offensive to recapture the region adjacent to the capital,…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that France's foreign minister has arrived in Tehran amid French criticism of Tehran's ballistic missile program. The Monday report said Jean-Yves Le Drian will hold meetings with Iran's President Hassan…