SANAA, Yemen – Yemen's president has appointed the half brother of the country's slain ex-president to head a military force. Saturday's decision by President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi assigns Ali Saleh al-Ahmar, the half brother of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh,…
TIRANA, Albania – Albania police have arrested 39 people in a crackdown on crime rings illegally sending about 1,000 Albanians to Britain, the United States and Canada. Police chief Ardi Veliu said Saturday that, after months of an international investigation,…
PATNA, India – A government official says a speeding bus has fallen into a dry river bed in eastern India, killing at least 10 people and injuring 12. Magistrate Raju Roshan says the driver lost control of the vehicle and…
YPRES, Belgium – A special remembrance installation of 600,000 crouching clay figures is opening to the public soon in Ypres, Belgium, seeking to help visitors from around the world reflect on what happened during World War I a century ago.…
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gaza's Hamas rulers have shut the offices of a Qatari-Palestinian cellular provider in connection with its investigation into an explosion that targeted the visiting Palestinian prime minister. Hamas police spokesman Ayman Batniji said Saturday that…
MOSCOW – As a kid in a dismal Soviet communal apartment, Vladimir Putin was a scrapper who dreamed of being an operator — diligently training in martial arts and boldly walking into a KGB office to inquire about how to…
MADRID – Thousands of elderly Spaniards are rallying in protests across the country to ask for an increase in public pension payouts for retirees. Unions and retiree groups called for protests in over 100 cities and towns across Spain on…
BEIRUT – The Latest on developments related to the war in Syria (all times local): 2:15 p.m. The Russian military says more than 30,000 people have fled Syria's besieged east Ghouta and that the flow is continuing. Maj. Gen. Vladimir…
MOSCOW – The Latest on Russia's presidential election (all times local): 2:45 p.m. A Russian election monitoring group is warning that independent observers may be targeted by an "attack" on voting day. Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent Golos center,…
The burnt wreckage of a Piper PA-23 Apache six-seater twin-engine light aircraft is seen at right as rescuers recover the bodies of victims following a crash upon takeoff Saturday. (AP) MANILA, Philippines – A small passenger plane carrying five people…
BERLIN – Swiss authorities say they've recovered the body of one skier and are still searching for three others after they were hit by an avalanche in the Alps. Police from the Valais canton, or state, said Saturday that a…
ISTANBUL – Turkey's official news agency says a journalist who has been accused of supporting a failed coup has been released from prison. Sahin Alpay, a 74-year-old journalist who wrote for the now defunct Zaman newspaper, was released from a…
World leaders condemn Russia for spy attack U.S., Germany and France issue statement of solidarity, saying they agree with U.K. assessment that Russia was responsible for nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Russia retaliated…
ATHENS, Greece – The Latest on the sinking of a suspected migrant boat off Greece (all times local): 11 a.m. Greece's coast guard says the bodies of 14 people have been recovered from the sea off a Greek island in…
STOCKHOLM – North Korea's foreign minister is set to meet again with his Swedish counterpart amid growing speculation about a possible meeting in the Scandinavian country between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Ri Yong Ho,…
MOSCOW – The Latest on developments related to the war in Syria (all times local): 11:45 a.m. Turkey's military has rejected allegations it bombed a hospital in Afrin in northwestern Syria, where it's engaged in an offensive against Syrian Kurdish…
SYDNEY – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says the displacement of Rohingya Muslims is no longer solely a domestic issue for Myanmar, as Southeast Asian nations signed a counterterrorism cooperation agreement at a regional leaders' conference. Najib made his comments…
MOSCOW – Russian voters, observers and eight presidential candidates are gearing up for an election that will undoubtedly hand Vladimir Putin another six-year term. The outcome in Sunday's vote is so certain that authorities are investing in get-out-the-vote efforts to…
HANOI, Vietnam – Phan Van Khai, an architect of Vietnam's economic rise and the country's first prime minister to visit the United States since the war, has died. He was 84. The official Vietnam News Agency says Khai died early…
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Pope Francis has traveled to southern Italy to honor a wildly popular Italian saint, Padre Pio. Francis took a helicopter from the Vatican early Saturday morning to visit Pietrelcina, the town of the Capuchin monk's…
ATHENS, Greece – Greece's coast guard says the bodies of six people have been recovered from the sea off a Greek island in the eastern Aegean following the sinking of a suspected migrant smuggling boat. The bodies of four children,…
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine police say a small passenger plane carrying five people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff north of Manila and killed all those onboard and two people on the ground. Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines…
MOSCOW – Russia's military says more than 11,000 people have left Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta outside the capital Damascus in the past few hours as government forces step up an offensive on the rebel enclave. Maj. Gen. Vladimir Zolotukhin was…
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan police officer says a suicide car bomber has killed three civilians and wounded five more in the eastern part of the capital Kabul. Jan Agha said the attacker targeted a foreign convoy on Saturday but…