MEXICO CITY -- The U.S. State Department is recommending that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexican states in the widest travel advisory issued since Mexico stepped up...
ALEPPO, Syria -- Two suicide car bombers struck security compounds in Aleppo on Friday, killing 28 people, Syrian officials said, bringing significant violence for the first time to an industrial center that has largely stood by President Bashar Assad during the 11-month uprising against his rule.
CAIRO -- Egypt's military rulers warned Friday that the country faces conspiracies that seek to topple the state and spread chaos, in a message intended to undermine activists who plan to mark the anniversary of President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow with anti-army protests.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Before President Michel Martelly took office in May 2011, Haiti's top prosecutor had recommended that former strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier face trial for the abuses associated with his 15-year rule.
REDWATER, Alberta -- The general manager of a Canadian motorcoach travel company says about 30 people have been injured after a bus rolled over on a highway near Edmonton, Alberta.
ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's future in the eurozone came under renewed threat Friday as popular protests again turned violent and dissent grew among its lawmakers after European leaders demanded deeper spending cuts.
LIMA, Peru -- One of two remaining fugitive leaders of Peru's once-powerful Shining Path rebel group may have been wounded in combat in a remote coca-growing region, the government said Friday.
MADRID -- Spain's new conservative government approved sweeping labor market reforms Friday as part of a drive to revive a sick economy and solve Europe's worst unemployment nightmare -- a jobless rate of nearly 23 percent.
MEXICO CITY -- U.S. drug agents have evidence that cartel leaders paid millions to a Mexican border state governor and other figures in Mexico's former ruling party in exchange for political influence, according to a court filing in Texas.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan prosecutors say two women have been ordered to appear in court for allegedly posing children with assault rifles during a public event organized by an armed group that supports President Hugo Chavez.
BEIRUT -- Two explosions struck security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 175, state media reported, in a major city that has largely stood by President Bashar Assad in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against his rule.
FRANKFURT, Germany -- An Islamic extremist who admitted killing two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport last year has been convicted of murder.
ANKARA, Turkey -- Record low temperatures and heavy snow are making life even more miserable for more than 140,000 Turkish quake survivors still living in tents or temporary homes.
MADRID -- Spanish police said Friday they have arrested two men involved in the assassination of Serbia's premier in 2003.
MEXICO CITY -- The U.S. State Department recommends Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexican states in the widest travel advisory since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006.
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's secret police arrested an escaped member of a radical Islamist sect suspected of masterminding a Christmas Day church bombing that killed at least 44 people, an official said Friday.
CAIRO -- Egyptian authorities barred a British woman from leaving the country Friday because she is among those being targeted by an investigation into foreign-funded non-governmental organizations accused of fomenting unrest in the country.
MADRID -- Spain's new conservative government approved sweeping labor market reforms on Friday as part of a drive to revive a sick economy and solve Europe's worst unemployment nightmare.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after being beaten while in police custody.
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Pakistan has arrested two people in connection with last year's assassination of a former Afghan president who was trying to broker peace with the Taliban, two Afghan government officials said Friday.