CARACAS, Venezuela – A prominent Venezuelan politician appears to be breaking ranks with the opposition coalition by challenging leader Nicolas Maduro in the upcoming presidential election. A campaign consultant for Henri Falcon says the ex-governor will declare his candidacy Tuesday.…
BRUSSELS – As a cold snap grips Europe, authorities in the Belgian capital Brussels have begun forcing homeless people off the streets and out of subzero temperatures. A mayor in the Etterbeek neighborhood has ordered that people be obliged to…
PARIS – The Walt Disney Company has announced a two billion-euro ($2.5 billion) expansion plan for Disneyland Paris, which will feature Marvel superheroes. The plan was unveiled Tuesday following a meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Disney chairman Robert…
CAIRO – Egypt's military says three soldiers, including an officer, were killed while fighting militants in the Sinai Peninsula. Military spokesman Col. Tamer al-Rifai says three other officers and four conscripts were wounded in the fighting on Tuesday, which killed…
AMMAN, Jordan – Officials say Jordan's first underwater archaeological survey has detected the outlines of a stone barrier, believed to be part of the centuries-old Red Sea port of Ayla, near the modern city of Aqaba. Ehab Eid, head of…
Saudi Arabia is opening soldier rank positions to women for the first time ever in regions including Riyadh, Mecca and al-Madina. In order to apply, Al Arabiya reports, women have to be of Saudi origin and between the ages of 25…
Experts say while the Olympics painted a rosy picture of diplomatic relations between U.S. and North Korea, the Hermit kingdom lost an opportunity to improve the relationship. (Fox News) The North Korean delegation to the Olympics returned to Pyongyang Tuesday,…
The North Korean delegation to the Olympics returned to Pyongyang Tuesday, officially ending this round of sports-related politics aimed at trying to resolve the North Korea crisis. The question remains: Is either side any closer to a diplomatic gold medal?…
CAIRO – Egypt's state media body is calling on officials and the "elite" to boycott the BBC after it broadcast a report on the repression of dissent under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that addressed torture and forced disappearances. In a Tuesday…
CAIRO – Egypt says archaeologists have discovered parts of a statue of one of its most famous pharaohs in the southern city of Aswan. The Antiquities Ministry said Tuesday the head and chest of the statue of Ramses II were…
A small German town has voted to keep a controversial church bell dedicated to Adolf Hitler. (AP) A small town in southwestern Germany has voted to keep a controversial church bell dedicated to former Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. The bell,…
JERUSALEM – The Latest on the Jerusalem mayor's move to collect taxes from Christian denominations, which prompted the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (all times local): 4:15 p.m. Jerusalem's mayor has suspended a plan to collect taxes…
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says regulators are reviewing the acquisition of nearly 10 percent of Daimler's shares by Chinese businessman Li Shufu, chairman of Zhejiang Geely, but that there don't seem to have been any violations. She told…
BRUSSELS – The European Union's top court says a fisheries agreement the bloc has concluded with Morocco can't include the waters off the disputed territory of Western Sahara. The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that the "Moroccan fishing zone"…
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia – A police investigator has testified that the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader told a friend in Malaysia that his life was in danger six months before he was killed at an airport. Indonesian Siti…
Kim Jong Nam reportedly told a friend he feared for his life six months before he was killed at a Malaysian airport. (Reuters) Kim Jong Un’s estranged brother Kim Jong Nam told a friend he feared his “life is in…
Police carry away the body of one of two people who fell from a departing airplane on the runway of the Jose Joaquin de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (AP) Two men believed to be stowaways on a U.S.-bound flight…
BEIRUT – The Latest on Syria's civil war (all times local): 3 p.m. The Red Cross says Russia's humanitarian pause in an embattled rebel-held enclave near Damascus offers little time for aid delivery and provides no guarantees of safety for…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani lawyer says an appellate court has suspended the three-year jail terms handed down to 25 suspects over the lynching of a university student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Mohammad Mashal Khan, 23, was killed…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria's military says it has rescued more than 1,100 people, including women and children, who had been held by Boko Haram extremists in different parts of the Lake Chad region near Cameroon. Tuesday's announcement comes more than…
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – A leading Slovak newspaper says organized crime may have been involved in the shooting death of an investigative journalist that shocked Slovakia. The bodies of 27-year-old Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova were found Sunday evening…
WARSAW, Poland – Poland's president has visited a Jewish community center in a conciliatory gesture that comes amid a wave of anti-Semitism in the country and a dispute with Israel over a new law that makes it a crime to…
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia's army says that an attack by leftist rebels along the South American country's volatile eastern border with Venezuela has left at least five soldiers dead and another 10 wounded. The army said that the attack took…
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Police in northern Greece have confiscated 105 kilograms of marijuana from neighboring Albania and arrested an Albanian national suspected of smuggling the drugs in his car. The 26-year-old man was stopped and detained near the Krystallopigi border…