Armed men threaten people searching for clandestine burials
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican state officials say armed men threatened volunteer searchers who found dozens of bodies in clandestine burial pits near the...
Investigation: Lead in some Canadian water worse than Flint
MARTHA MENDOZA
Associated Press
MONTREAL (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water,...
Attacker bites politician’s ear, others slashed in Hong Kong
EILEEN NG
Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — A knife-wielding man slashed several people and bit off part of the ear of a pro-democracy politician...
Migrants endure rape and torture on route through Yemen
MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press
RAS AL-ARA, Yemen (AP) — Zahra struggled in the blue waters of the Gulf of Aden, grasping for the hands of...
Iran student leader says he regrets 1979 US Embassy attack
NASSER KARIMI and MOHAMMAD NASIRI
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown...
Blast in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed gunmen kills 13
ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey on...
UK halts fracking ahead of election; some want permanent ban
GREGORY KATZ
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Saturday that it will no longer allow fracking because of new scientific analysis that...
Iraqis defy crackdown to hold biggest protests yet
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and JOSEPH KRAUSS
Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iraqis massed in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest...
Failed mission raises doubts about Mexican security strategy
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A sloppy operation that failed to nab JoaquÃn "El Chapo" Guzmán's son - followed by days of...
Berlin Wall’s fall stokes memories of lost hopes in Russia
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — When the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union stepped back, letting East Germany's communist government collapse and then...