A Slovakian journalist and his girlfriend were found dead Sunday mysteriously while he was working on a story about possible links between the Italian mafia and people close to Prime Minister Robert Fico. Ján Kuciak, 27 and his girlfriend, Martina…
CANBERRA, Australia – An Australian government report says more than 57,000 illegal firearms including a rocket launcher and machine guns were handed in during a recent amnesty in which gun owners could surrender such weapons without penalty. The government and…
Bruce McArthur and Sasha Reid (Reuters/Twitter) A criminal profiler said she tried to warn Toronto cops about a serial killer terrorizing the city’s “Gay Village” almost a year before they nabbed a landscaper accused of slaying at least six men…
Several members of the Oxfam aid operation in Haiti have been accused in a prostitution and sex abuse scandal. Outraged developed nations that largely fund the world’s humanitarian aid and peacekeeping efforts, fed up with sexual exploitation and abuse by…
LIMA, Peru – Accusations of corruption are again enveloping Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski after a high-ranking executive from scandal-plagued Brazilian builder Odebrecht allegedly said he contributed money to the leader's 2011 campaign. The allegations against Kuczynski were made Wednesday…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil's state-run postal service says it will start charging extra to deliver letters and packages in Rio de Janeiro due to a wave of wave of violence in the state. Correios said in a statement on…
Maulana Mohammad Abdul Aziz is considered one of the most dangerous, yet influential, men in Pakistan. And while his movements in the country are restricted by the government, the 57-year-old former head cleric of Islamabad’s oldest mosque – Lal Masjid,…
SANTIAGO, Chile – The Vatican's sex crimes investigator has ended his mission in Chile, and Roman Catholic officials say he plans to deliver a report to the pope on a Chilean bishop who has been accused of ignoring sex abuse…
PATTAYA, Thailand – A Belarusian woman jailed in Thailand for offering sex lessons without a work permit says she has a story to tell involving the Kremlin, Russian billionaires and even the president of the United States. Anastasia Vashukevich, whose…
Tunisians check voter IDs in a polling station in Tunis, Tunisia, back in 2014. (AP Photo/Ilyess Osmane) The Tunisian Ennahda Party has made history in this northernmost African country by nominating its first Jewish candidate for public office. But in…
DAKAR, Senegal – The U.N. mission in Mali says four of its peacekeepers have been killed after their vehicle hit an explosive device in the central Mopti region. Mali mission chief Mahamat Saleh Annadif said the four were killed Wednesday…
LONDON – British police say they have arrested three men in connection with an explosion over the weekend in the English city of Leicester that killed five people. Sunday's blast caused the collapse of a building which housed a shop…
JERUSALEM – Israel's army says military police have opened an investigation into a raid in which a Palestinian was killed. It made the announcement Wednesday after new footage emerged showing the 33-year-old running down an alley with a long object…
SOFIA, Bulgaria – The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and Iran have discussed the state of affairs in the Middle East and bilateral economic relations. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and her Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said they talked about…
VERACRUZ, Mexico – Prosecutors in the corruption-plagued Mexican state of Veracruz say police set up units that used dirty-war, death-squad style tactics to abduct, kill and dispose of at least 15 people suspected of being drug cartel informers and drug…
BERLIN – Bavarian authorities say about one in four known members of an anti-government extremist group live in the southern state and they're investigating whether there are even more. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said Wednesday that 3,850 members of…
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. humanitarian chief says convoys with food and other aid are ready to go to 10 besieged and hard-to-reach locations in Syria, including the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta — but there is no cease-fire as…
ROME – The man tapped by Silvio Berlusconi as his choice for Italy's next premier has met with laid off Italian union workers and vowed to pull strings to intervene in the politically clamorous closure of their Turin refrigerator factory.…
PARIS – Paris Fashion Week is continuing in the French capital. Themes from the natural world, to the Roaring Twenties to the era of Glam Rock have been channeled on Day 2 of the shows. Here are some of the…
ATHENS, Greece – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has appointed deputy premier Yannis Dragasakis as the country's economy and development minister in a limited cabinet reshuffle triggered by a rent allowance scandal. In a statement Wednesday, the government said Dragasakis will…
BERLIN – German officials have been left speechless by Chancellor Angela Merkel's comment that there are "no-go areas" in the country. The notion there are places in Germany outsiders — including police — can't visit has previously been dismissed by…
Sherine Abdel-Wahab was sentenced to six months in prison for a joke she made suggesting the Nile River was polluted. (YouTube) Sherine Abdel-Wahab, one of Egypt’s most famous singers and the star of the Arabic version of “The Voice,” was…
PRISTINA, Kosovo – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called on Kosovo to ratify a border demarcation deal with Montenegro and improve ties with Serbia. Juncker continued his Balkan tour in Kosovo on Wednesday, the first visit by an EU…
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Authorities say military police have arrested the wife of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo as part of a corruption case. Police arrived at the Lobo home in six vehicles and searched the residence before leaving with former…