GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Defendants in the Sept. 11 war crimes case may have been correct when they said they recognized a new courtroom interpreter from a CIA “black site” where they were subjected to harsh interrogations. The Pentagon says in a carefully worded statement that the interpreter …

NICOSIA, Cyprus – In a further easing of restrictions on money transfers, Cyprus’ Finance Ministry says it has raised the amount of money individuals can now take out of the country at any one time to 50,000 euros ($57,000). The Finance Ministry announced the increase from the previous limit of …

NEW DELHI – An Indian millionaire has been charged with murder in the southern Indian state of Kerala after police said he rammed his SUV into his security guard he accused of being too slow. Mohammed Nisham slammed his Hummer into the guard and hit him with an iron rod …

HAT YAI, Thailand – Thai police say suspected Muslim insurgents have detonated a car bomb that wounded 13 people and damaged buildings in a southern city. Police Col. Manit Yimsaai says the bomb was hidden in a pickup truck that was parked in front of a karaoke bar in a …

BRUSSELS – The European Union is moving to unblock a major legislative logjam holding up the exchange of air passenger information deemed vital to track foreign fighters who could become terrorists. The EU lawmaker responsible for pushing the process through the assembly tabled new proposals with strengthened privacy protection clauses …

MEXICO CITY – The Popocatepetl volcano east of Mexico City has been spewing ash into the sky, forcing cancellation of flights at the nearby Puebla International Airport for a second consecutive day. The government’s airport oversight agency says through its Twitter account Thursday that flights to Monterrey, Houston, Guadalajara, as …

ISTANBUL – In a second evening of violence in Istanbul, police killed a woman Wednesday carrying a bomb near the city’s main police headquarters, an official said. Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin also said that a second person escaped and that a policeman was slightly injured. It wasn’t immediately clear who …

UNITED NATIONS – The Palestinian U.N. ambassador says his government is ready to see if the Security Council has “the political will” to adopt a resolution with a deadline for ending Israel’s occupation and establishing a Palestinian state. Riyad Mansour said adoption of a resolution with a timetable would be …

Iran accused the world’s five nuclear powers Wednesday of failing to take legitimate action to eliminate their stockpiles and called for negotiations on a convention to achieve nuclear disarmament by a certain date. Iran’s deputy U.N. ambassador Gholam Hossein Dehghani told the U.N. Disarmament Commission that “a comprehensive, binding, irreversible, …

ANKARA, Turkey – Forty-five managers and employees of a mine in western Turkey have gone on trial accused of causing the deaths of 301 miners who perished in a fire last year in Turkey’s worst mining disaster. The defendants include the CEO and the general manager of mine company Soma …