Saudi foreign minister pledges full probe into Khashoggi killing
JAKARTA – Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says the kingdom is committed to a thorough and complete investigation to get to the truth behind the killing of journalist Jamal…
Taiwan train crash kills 18 in deadliest rail tragedy in decades
TAIPEI – Eighteen people have died and 175 others injured after a train derailed in northeastern Taiwan, authorities say, in the island’s worst rail disaster in more than three decades.…
Thousands of Hondurans in US-bound migrant caravan head into Mexico
TAPACHULA – Defying the efforts of four governments to break them up, thousands of mostly Honduran migrants have risen at dawn from the shores of a river between Guatemala and…
Man says he attacked Bulgarian TV host who was murdered
SOFIA- A Bulgarian man has said he attacked Viktoria Marinova, a television journalist whose murder drew international condemnation partly because it initially appeared that it could have been politically motivated.…
Greek PM rules out snap polls after foreign minister quits
ATHENS – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has ruled out a snap election following the resignation of his foreign minister, saying his administration still had backing from a majority of…
Guards on Hong Kong-flagged ship repel pirates off Somalia coast: EU force
NAIROBI – Security guards aboard a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship have repelled an attack by pirates in a gunbattle off Somalia’s coast this week, the European naval force in the…
French Riviera launches clean-up as fuel spill reaches beaches
RAMATUELLE – Some of France’s spectacular Riviera beaches have been shut as volunteers with shovels and sacks try to rid the coastline of a thick oily residue that washed ashore…
Scottish government identifies case of mad cow disease
LONDON – Scotland’s government says that a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, has been discovered on a farm in Aberdeenshire, the first in Britain since…
Teenager kills 17 in Crimea college shooting: Russian officials
MOSCOW – At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea on Wednesday when a student went through the building…
Greek foreign minister quits in Macedonia name row
ATHENS – Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has accepted the resignation of his foreign minister, Greece’s first major political casualty in a crusade to end a decades-old name dispute with Macedonia.…
