Rescue teams search for 27 missing after a passenger boat sinks in eastern Indonesia
PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Rescue teams raced Monday to find 27 people missing after a passenger boat sank in rough seas on its way...
Spain says it has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran...
MADRID (AP) — Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said Monday, marking another...
Gunmen kill more than 70 in South Sudan after a dispute at a gold...
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a gold mining row on the outskirts of the...
China sanctions Japanese lawmaker close to Takaichi over his ties to Taiwan
TOKYO (AP) — China announced Monday that it is sanctioning a conservative Japanese lawmaker close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, accusing him of “colluding...
Thieves steal paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from Italian private museum
ROME (AP) — Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros (dollars) from a museum near the...
Israeli parliament to vote on death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament is set to vote on a bill that would make the death penalty the default punishment for West Bank...
The Latest: Trump suggests US could take Iran’s Kharg Island
U.S. President Donald Trump has raised the idea of American forces seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, its main oil terminal in the Persian Gulf.“Maybe we...
Trump mulls seizing Iranian island even as diplomatic talks appear to be moving ahead
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump openly mused about seizing Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal in the Persian Gulf and the...
China resumes direct flights to North Korea after 6 years
BEIJING (AP) — China’s flag carrier resumed direct flights between Beijing and North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang on Monday not long after the restoration...
Trump says he has ‘no problem’ with Russian oil tanker bringing relief to Cuba...
ABOARD AIRFORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday night said he has “no problem” with a Russian oil tanker off the coast...
