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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.” …
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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 …
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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 …
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RIGA, Latvia – A quarter century after the Iron Curtain that once divided Europe opened, the European Union nations and Russia are again involved in a tug-of-war, this time over six former Soviet Republics. EU leaders are courting the six at a special summit in Riga that opened Thursday, offering …
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BEIJING – China says it has foiled 181 terror plots in the year since it started a crackdown on violent Islamic separatists in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. State broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday showed paramilitary troops conducting a range of drills featuring fleets of helicopters, simulated building assaults and the …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish media say three assailants opened fire at a street party celebrating the wedding of a couple from Turkey’s Roma community, killing three guests, including a child. The state-run Anadolu Agency says six other people were injured in the attack late Sunday near the city of Bursa, …
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