KAMPALA, Uganda – The United Nations refugee agency says more than 5,800 Burundians have crossed into Rwanda since the end of last month amid fears of violence ahead of elections later this year. UNHCR said in a statement Wednesday that hundreds are crossing the border daily, most of them children. …

JERUSALEM – Israeli police say they’re investigating the killing of a Polish tourist whose body bore signs of violence. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Sunday the woman was found in a forest in Nazareth in northern Israel three days after being reported missing. He said police are investigating and it’s …

KAMPALA, Uganda – The U.N. World Food Programme says three of its staff members are missing in the state of Upper Nile and will suspend operations in some areas because of safety concerns. The agency said in a statement Wednesday that it is “extremely worried” about the fate of the …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry says a military training aircraft has crashed, killing the instructor and a student pilot. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted the ministry as saying the accident happened Sunday morning and involved a plane affiliated with the King Faisal Air Academy, a military …

PARIS – French prosecutors are investigating accusations that French soldiers in Central African Republic sexually abused children they were sent to protect. The French probe follows an initial U.N. investigation into the allegations a year ago — both of which were kept secret until a report in The Guardian newspaper …

CAIRO – Human Rights Watch says a Saudi-led coalition may have used cluster bombs in its airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen. In a report released Sunday, the U.S.-based group says satellite imagery indicates the munitions landed “within 600 meters of several dozen buildings in four to six village clusters.” …

TORONTO – Canada’s most conservative province has elected a left-of-center government, ending a 44-year-long conservative party dynasty The western oil-rich province of Alberta elected a New Democratic Party government on Tuesday. Few predicted such a result just 28 days ago when the election was called by then Progressive Conservative Alberta …

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ANKARA, Turkey – Officials say Kenan Evren, the leader of Turkey’s 1980 military coup and former president who died aged 97, will be given a state funeral but no government official will attend. The coup was initially welcomed for ending years of street fighting by rival militias but the former …

OTTAWA, Ontario – Canada’s Supreme Court has rejected the federal government’s effort to have former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr declared an adult offender. The Toronto-born Khadr, released on bail in Canada last week, spent 10 years in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Since 2012 he had been …