CHISINAU, Moldova – A pro-Russian politician who favors closer ties with Moscow has been elected governor of a semi-autonomous region in Moldova. Election officials said that Irina Vlah won more than 51 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election to be elected governor of Gagauzia for a four-year term. After …
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KARACHI, Pakistan – Police and hospital officials say a roadside bomb has struck a bus carrying police officers in southern Pakistan, wounding at least 10 people. Police officer Mohammad Ali says the attack took place Friday morning in Karachi, the capital of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. He says the bus …
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ISTANBUL – An Istanbul court has acquitted 236 military officers of charges of plotting a coup to overthrow the government of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The court ruled Tuesday in favor of the officers in their retrial, launched months after the Turkey’s highest court ruled that the original trial …
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Turkmenistan’s president has fired the heads of the country’s central bank and its natural gas company in the wake of economic troubles that brought the country’s currency down 18.5 percent this year. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s orders at a Cabinet session Saturday were reported by the tightly controlled …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Obama administration has unveiled a new plan to fight drug trafficking in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands amid concerns that the flow of cocaine from the Caribbean to the U.S. has more than doubled in the past three years. It is the …
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BEIJING – A New Yorker journalist famed for his reporting from China wrote that the state-run newspaper China Daily faked an editorial under his byline after interviewing him. Peter Hessler said on Facebook on Tuesday that he didn’t write the piece posted on China Daily’s website a day earlier titled …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – U.N. Security Council members are in Haiti for a three-day visit aimed in part at urging the government to hold long-delayed municipal and legislative elections. Council members arrived Friday and expect to meet with officials including President Michel Martelly during their stay. Martelly began ruling by decree …
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PARIS – A 250-year-old book by the Enlightenment anti-establishment writer Voltaire is climbing best-seller lists in France weeks after the attacks by French-born Islamic extremists that left 20 people dead, including the gunmen. The “Treatise on Tolerance” is a cry against religious fanaticism and stemmed from Voltaire’s conviction that religious …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The African Union has joined regional and international organizations in threatening South Sudan’s warring factions with sanctions. The African Union’s Peace and Security Council said Saturday it will impose sanctions on all parties in South Sudan who continue to undermine the cessation of hostilities agreement. The …
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ATHENS, Greece – A Greek militant anarchist group has claimed responsibility for a gunfire attack on the Israeli embassy building in Athens last year that caused no injury and minor damage. Police said Wednesday a proclamation by the “Group of Popular Fighters” over the attack early on Dec. 12 was …
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