WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Crews from the U.S. and New Zealand are trying to rescue a damaged fishing boat with 27 people aboard that is stuck in ice near Antarctica. The U.S. Coast Guard says Australian boat Antarctic Chieftain suffered damage to three of its four propellers after getting stuck …
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EL-ARISH, Egypt – Police in Egypt say they have thwarted two Islamic militant suicide car bomb attacks on a police station in the restive northern Sinai. Police officials said Saturday the attack in the town of Sheikh Zuweyid wounded two police officers. Police say guards in the police station’s towers …
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – Authorities in Madagascar say a French boy was abducted from outside his school in the southwest of the country. Hajatiana Ralaikoto, a police official in the town of Toliara, said Wednesday that four men grabbed the 12-year-old on Tuesday. Ralaikoto says the motive was not clear. He …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has test fired a “new strategic weapon” in the final day of large-scale naval and air defense drills. Adm. Ali Fadavi, the guard’s naval chief, told state TV on Friday that the new weapon would play a “decisive” role in naval wars. …
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TORONTO – The law firm representing the families of 47 people killed in the 2013 Quebec train crash says it has received a financial proposal that would see them split US$61 million in compensation. Chicago-based law firm Meyers & Flowers says it will be closely reviewing the settlement to determine …
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UNITED NATIONS – Jordan has circulated a United Nations resolution aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen, where Houthi Shiite rebels and their allies are fighting supporters of the country’s embattled president. A U.N. diplomat said Tuesday the draft Security Council resolution would condemn aggression by the Houthis, who are …
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UNITED NATIONS – High-profile whistleblowers have joined forces for the first time in demanding that the United Nations change a global system they say deters its thousands of staffers from exposing crime, corruption and other wrongdoing. In a letter sent to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, nine current and former …
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JERUSALEM – An Israeli soldier has been indicted on spying charges for relaying classified military information to extremist West Bank settlers suspected of involvement in attacks on Palestinians. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency, said Monday that the 25-year-old man, a resident of the same hardline West Bank settlement …
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PARIS – A Polish man who was supposed to have been expelled from France has admitted to kidnapping and killing a little girl in the northern town of Calais after she shot a water pistol at him. Police were questioning the 38-year-old unidentified suspect on Thursday, a day after the …
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PARIS – Syrian President Bashar Assad says the French and Syrian intelligence services have had “some contacts” over the fight against the Islamic State group but denied that there is any cooperation between them. Assad made the remarks in a taped interview with French television station France 2 broadcast Monday. …
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