JOHANNESBURG – The former South African state prosecutor who led the case against convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius is prepared to take legal action against Jacob Zuma, the ex-president who left office last week following a series of scandals. A group…
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe's president Sunday visited the home of deceased opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to pay condolences to his family and to urge unity as power struggles within the opposition have heightened tensions. President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged that his…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel "will act if necessary" after an Iranian drone entered the country's airspace earlier this month and warned the country is growing its presence in the Middle East. Netanyahu made the…
A passenger plane crashed in a mountainous region in southern Iran on Sunday, killing all 66 people on board, an airline spokesman told Iran state television. Aseman Airlines Flight No. 3704 came down near the city of Yasuj, about 485…
LONDON – The widower of a slain British legislator has stepped down from two charities set up in her memory after allegations of sexual misconduct in the past were reported. Brendan Cox said late Saturday night he had acted inappropriately…
MUNICH – The Latest from the Munich Security Conference (all times local): 11:25 a.m. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel "will never allow the rewriting of the historical truth" about the Holocaust — a statement that comes as tensions…
CAIRO – Egypt's Foreign Ministry says it accepts Ethiopia's request to delay a meeting about a dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River, after Addis Ababa declared a state of emergency amid the worst anti-government protests in…
MUNICH – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an international agreement with Iran has emboldened the regime in Tehran to become increasingly aggressive in the region. Netanyahu told world leaders, defense officials and diplomats at the Munich Security Conference on…
WARSAW, Poland – A spokeswoman for Poland's prime minister has sought to downplay his words equating Polish collaborators in the Holocaust to alleged "Jewish perpetrators" by saying they were an invitation to a frank debate about the World War II…
An Iran Aseman Airlines passenger jet reportedly crashed in a mountainous area south of Tehran. (Reuters) A commercial airliner has crashed in southern Iran, killing all 66 people aboard, an airline spokesman told Iran state television Sunday. The plane carried…
TEHRAN, Iran – The Latest on the crash of an Iranian passenger plane in southern Iran (all times local): 11:50 a.m. A spokesman for Iran's Aseman Airlines spokesman has told state TV that an airplane crash in southern Iran has…
An Iran Aseman Airlines passenger jet reportedly crashed in a mountainous area south of Tehran. (Reuters) A commercial airliner carrying 66 people has crashed in southern Iran, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. The report on Sunday said the…
TEHRAN, Iran – The semi-official Fars news agency says a commercial airplane carrying 66 people has crashed in southern Iran. The report on Sunday says the plane crashed near the remote mountain town of Semirom, some 620 kilometers, or about…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military says it has struck 18 targets in Gaza in response to an explosive device that wounded four soldiers along the border with the territory. The military says it struck early on Sunday as part of…
QAIM, Iraq – From their outpost on Iraq's westernmost edge, U.S. 1st Lt. Kyle Hagerty and his troops watched civilians trickle into the area after American and Iraqi forces drove out the Islamic State group. They were, he believed, families…
Thirteen people were killed and 16 injured when a military helicopter carrying high-ranking officials to assess the damage from a powerful earthquake crashed in southern Mexico, officials said Saturday. All the victims were on the ground. The Oaxaca state prosecutor's…
PARIS – Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, who was jailed this month during an investigation of two alleged cases of rape, has reportedly been hospitalized. An online site campaigning for Ramadan's release said on Saturday that his family had learned…
MEXICO CITY – Activists and artists in Mexico held a mournful, dirge-like procession for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise Saturday, as the species' numbers fell below 30. With drums, chimes and a carved vaquita skull, hundreds of people made their…
JERUSALEM – Israeli politicians accused Poland's prime minister of anti-Semitism Saturday for equating the Polish perpetrators in the Holocaust to its supposed "Jewish perpetrators," setting off a new chapter in an angry dispute over Poland's new bill criminalizing the mention…
AMMAN, Jordan – The state news agency Petra reports that Jordan's military says it has foiled a plot to smuggle in weapons, drugs and terrorists by using an old pipeline linking the kingdom with Syria and Iraq. Saturday's report says…
ATHENS, Greece – Video footage has surfaced of the moment a Turkish coast guard vessel collided with a stationary Greek patrol boat near a pair of Aegean Sea islets over which the two countries almost went to war in 1996.…
A coach driver is facing the sack after he was filmed trying to drag a French woman off his vehicle by her legs - despite her having a valid ticket. Mobile footage filmed by another passenger captured the moment the…
Soldiers stand guard next to a military helicopter, carrying Mexico's interior minister and the governor of the southern state of Oaxaca, crashed on top of two vans in an open field while trying to land in Santiago Jamiltepec, Mexico, Friday.…
