MADRID – Spain’s air traffic controllers have staged the second set of partial strikes but there are no immediate reports of major flight delays or cancelations. A spokesman for Spain’s air navigation company, Enaire, said 1,217 flights were to take place during the strike periods between 10 a.m. and noon …
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LONDON – Standard & Poor’s is warning that it may downgrade its credit rating on Britain sometime in the next two years following the government’s decision to hold a referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union. In a statement, the agency said Friday that “economic policymaking could be …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan authorities say they are trying to establish whether one of the bodies of two white men, among the suspected extremists killed in an attempted attack on an army camp in Lamu County over the weekend, is that of Briton Thomas Evans. Military spokesman Col. David Obonyo …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Two migrants who were on a people-smuggling boat at the center of claims Australia’s navy paid the crew to turn back to Indonesia say they saw the money handed over. The allegation of payments to people smugglers has strained relations between Indonesia and Australia, which has a …
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TOKYO – Foreign ministers from Japan and South Korea held a rare meeting Sunday on the eve of the 50th anniversary of their countries normalizing relations marred by Japan’s colonization and World War II conquest. Yet, the ties between the most important U.S. allies in Asia are so low that …
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LOS CABOS, Mexico – Prosecutors have unearthed the bodies of two men and three women from clandestine burial pits in the resort city of La Paz, Mexico. The prosecutors’ office for Baja California Sur state said in a statement late Monday the bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags and …
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AMMAN, Jordan – More than 200 groups helping 3.9 million Syrian war refugees are calling on international donors to send promised aid, saying they are fast running out of funds to deliver basic services. The groups said Thursday that just $1 billion out of $4.5 billion pledged for 2015 has …
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BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities say bombs targeting public places have killed 10 people in the capital, Baghdad. Police officials say a car bomb went off about noon Saturday near shops selling car parts in southeastern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 13 others. Another bomb blast at an outdoor market …
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ATHENS, Greece – The latest news on Greece’s financial woes on a day a big repayment to the International Monetary Fund is due and the country’s bailout program with European creditors ends (all times local): 10.04 a.m. The mood in European financial markets remained edgy amid growing expectations that Greece …
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UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. observer mission has concluded that Burundi’s parliamentary elections on Monday were not “free, credible and inclusive.” A preliminary statement Thursday from the observers said voting took place “in a tense political crisis” and that “fundamental freedoms of participation, assembly, expression, opinion and information” suffered increasing …
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