JERUSALEM – The Israeli police have named the two close associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested for their suspected role in a wide-ranging corruption probe. With a gag order lifted Tuesday, police identified them as Nir Hefetz, a former…
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan officials say insurgents have killed nine policemen in separate attacks in the country's west and east. In western Farah province, attacks on police checkpoints killed eight policemen. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the Farah governor, says…
AMMAN, Jordan – Amer Othman's life turned upside down in an instant. The Ohio entrepreneur, who came to the United States 38 years ago and won praise for helping revive once-blighted downtown Youngstown, was arrested during what he thought was…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian media have updated the death toll from clashes the previous night with Sufi followers in Tehran, saying two members of the paramilitary forces were also killed, as well as three policemen. The semi-official Fars news agency…
CARACAS, Venezuela – On many days, Ramon Medina has no choice but to skip work to make ends meet. Like around half of Venezuelans, he earns the minimum wage — the equivalent of around $3 a month — so whenever…
MEXICO CITY – A gray whale has been returned safely to the Pacific Ocean after three days beached on the coast of Mexico's Baja California Sur state. The federal environmental protection agency says in a statement that the whale swam…
Chloe Ayling is seen in this undated photo. (Fotogramma/Ropi via ZUMA Press) Video of British model Chloe Ayling retracing her movements during the week that she was allegedly kidnapped and held for ransom was played in a Milan courtroom Monday…
Oxfam’s deputy chief executive on Monday resigned amid a scandal involving sex abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Penny Lawrence says she’s ashamed of what happened on her watch. Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt is demanding that Oxfam show moral…
LIMA, Peru – A court in Peru has determined that former Peruvian strongman Alberto Fujimori can be tried in connection with a 1992 massacre despite his recent pardon from a 25-year jail sentence. The ruling Monday paves the way for…
As North Koreans return home this week from the Pyeongchang Winter Games, possibly without any medals, Olympians hope to avoid the gulags — a fate the losers of the 1966 World Cup are believed to have experienced. Twenty-two North Koreans participated…
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico – Mexican marines have captured an alleged top boss of the Gulf drug cartel in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. A statement from the Mexican navy says the suspect it identifies only as Jose Alfredo, with…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his annual "State of Hungary" speech in Budapest Sunday. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP) Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban used his annual state of the nation speech to ramp up anti-immigration rhetoric Sunday, warning that…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal judge has approved a $300 million loan for Puerto Rico's power company that officials say will help keep it operating until late March. Monday's ruling comes just days after the judge had rejected…
MEXICO CITY – Mexican experts say the recently mapped Sac Actun cave system "is probably the most important underwater archaeological site in the world," but is threatened by pollution. Subaquatic archaeologist Guillermo de Anda says researchers found a human skull…
SAO PAULO – A Brazilian leader says that use of the military to combat rising violence in Rio de Janeiro could be a test case for other violent areas of Brazil. The military took over Rio's police on Friday under…
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says a supporter of a Sufi leader has rammed a bus into police, killing three of them before being arrested. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Mohsen Hamedani, a senior security official…
GALAXIDI, Greece – For a few hours every year, residents and visitors of this pretty Greek seaside town have a license to lose their civility. They have what's known as a "flour war" — participants pelt each other with bags…
JERUSALEM – An Israeli settler leader says the number of settlers in the West Bank grew at nearly twice the rate of Israel's overall population last year. Yaakov Katz says the settler population reached over 435,000 people last year, up…
Israel on Monday successfully tested its Arrow-3 system. (Israeli Ministry of Defense) Israel successfully tested its new Arrow missile defense system Monday, the Defense Ministry announced in a tweet, the accomplishment capping a program that’s seen a series of delays…
Geophysicist Matthew Falder is seen in an undated booking photograph handed out by the National Crime Agency. (Reuters) A British academic who went by the online aliases of “evilmind” and “666devil” was sentenced to 32 years in prison Monday for…
A woman wrote that she didn't care if "the whole street collapsed" but wanted the ambulance to be moved. (West Midlands Ambulance Service) A British woman was arrested Monday after she allegedly left a scathing note on an ambulance that…
JERUSALEM – Benjamin Netanyahu traces his meteoric rise in Israeli politics to his days as a telegenic media star who dazzled audiences in both English and Hebrew. But he has also had a rocky relationship with Israel's notoriously aggressive media,…
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's defense minister says the planned deployment of 1,000 troops to Saudi Arabia does not violate a parliamentary resolution against taking part in combat operations in Yemen. Khurram Dastigir told the Senate on Monday that the troops would…
KUWAIT CITY – Kuwait's ruling emir has reportedly invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to his country to resolve tensions after a Filipina maid was found dead in a freezer. That's according to a report Monday by Kuwait's state-run KUNA news…