Israeli PM escapes domestic woes to meet Pompeo in Lisbon
TEL AVIV, Israel — Looking to escape his legal and political woes at home, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was headed Wednesday toward a war...
Egyptian government seeks to do away with popular tuk-tuks
CAIRO — Motorized rickshaws known as tuk-tuks have ruled the streets of Cairo’s slums for the past two decades, squeezing through dusty alleys, dodgin...
Bolsonaro vs NGOs: Amazon town becomes ground zero for spat
ALTER DO CHAO, Brazil — A sleepy Amazon town has become the flashpoint for the growing hostility between Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro a...
Maduro’s foes balk at UN-backed deal to rebuild power grid
MIAMI — A proposal to rebuild Venezuela’s collapsed power grid with the help of the United Nations is proving a political hot potato for Nicolás Madur...
Mexican president prays with family of dead US dual citizens
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador prayed for the safety of the country with the relatives of nine U.S. dual citizens slaught...
Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea
UIJEONGBU, South Korea — Song Hong Ryon looks like any other young woman in South Korea. But three years after her arrival from China, the half-North ...
Lebanon’s outgoing PM backs businessman to replace him
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday he supports the nomination of a prominent contractor to become the next premier, a...
Northern Mexico fears return to dark past after gunfights
VILLA UNION, Mexico — Mexico’s president says he wants to fight drug cartels with “hugs, not bullets,” but after 23 people were killed in a weekend gu...
Israel to UN: Uprooted Jews should be seen as refugees
UNITED NATIONS — Israel wants the United Nations to recognize as refugees hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Arab and Muslim countries in the last...
Domingo’s accusers: Nothing ‘chivalrous’ about groping women
SAN FRANCISCO — Two opera singers who accused Placido Domingo of sexual misconduct said Tuesday that it was disappointing and disturbing that the oper...
Trump against the world: A snapshot of his trade disputes
WASHINGTON — There are lots of ways, it seems, to land on one of President Donald Trump’s tariff hit lists.
Fears deepen for families of people held in Iran amid unrest
WASHINGTON — Families of several U.S. and British people held in Iran expressed fear for their loved ones Tuesday amid the deadliest unrest in decades...
More pressure on Prince Andrew after alleged victim on TV
LONDON — Prince Andrew was missing when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, hosted NATO leaders at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, but he was the fo...
Trump says China deal could wait until after 2020 election
LONDON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the likelihood of reaching a U.S.-China trade deal before next year’s elections — and then shrug...
Iran says it killed ‘rioters’ in deadliest unrest in decades
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that its security forces shot and killed protesters across the country to p...
Greta Thunberg says voyage ‘energized’ her climate fight
LISBON, Portugal — Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Portugal on Tuesday after a three-week voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, telling cheerin...
Surge of new abuse claims threatens church like never before
NEW YORK — At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazes o...
The Latest: Greta Thunberg ‘energized’ after Atlantic voyage
MADRID — The Latest on the U.N. Climate Talks in Madrid (all times local):
Finland’s prime minister resigns over postal service dispute
HELSINKI — Finland's prime minister resigned Tuesday after a key coalition partner withdrew its support from his five-party government following a str...
Powerful typhoon leaves at least 4 dead in Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Kammuri barreled across the Philippines with fierce winds and rain Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead, forcing h...
EU mission in Malta expresses credibility doubts
VALLETTA, Malta — The head of the European Union’s mission to Malta on Tuesday expressed doubts about the government’s credibility after meeting with ...
Polish ruling party leader Kaczynski has knee surgery
WARSAW, Poland — An official says Poland's powerful ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has successfully undergone a planned knee surgery.
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe left behind $10 million, some houses
HARARE, Zimbabwe — The wealth of Zimbabwe’s former longtime president Robert Mugabe was long a mystery. Now the first official list of assets to be ma...
Malaysia’s ex-PM Najib seeks to show he’s victim of fugitive
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak sought to show he was the victim of a cunning fugitive financier as he opened his...
Amnesty: Yemen’s disabled are neglected, and suffering
CAIRO — Yemen’s civil war has exacted an enormous toll on people with disabilities, who find themselves on the margins of society and excluded from ba...
North Korea says it’s up to US to choose ‘Christmas gift’
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday repeated its assertions the Trump administration is running out of time to salvage nuclear negotiations, s...
Man rescued after 13 nights stranded in Outback; 1 missing
PERTH, Australia — A second person stranded in the punishing Australian Outback for almost two weeks has been rescued, and a search continued Tuesday ...
China’s climate paradox: A leader in coal and clean energy
WASHINGTON — As world leaders gather in Spain to discuss how to slow the warming of the planet, a spotlight falls on China — the top emitter of greenh...
Mexican border town gripped by fear after gunbattle kills 22
VILLA UNION, Mexico — A small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday, gripped by fear after the killing of 22 people in a ferocious...