CAIRO – Egypt’s top prosecutor has imposed a media gag order on the case of the death of a female protester killed during a peaceful demonstration widely caught on cameras last month. Rights groups and political factions accuse the police of killing 32-year old Shaimaa el-Sabbagh, pointing to widely circulated …

GOLD COAST, Australia – South Korean-born Australian teenager Su Oh shot a 4-under 69 Sunday to win the Australian Ladies Masters by three strokes in only her second start as a professional. Oh, the co-leader after the first round, finished with a 7-under total of 285 on the Royal Pines …

WARSAW, Poland – Hundreds of farmers are marching in Warsaw to demand government compensation for crops lost to wild boar and for profits reduced by Russia’s embargo against some Polish meat and dairy products. With sirens and banners, they are walking Thursday from the Parliament building to the office of …

PARIS – France has deployed an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf to strengthen its military operation against Islamic State extremists in Iraq. President Francois Hollande announced days after deadly attacks by Islamic radicals in Paris last month that France would dispatch the Charles de Gaulle carrier to the Middle …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s state comptroller has issued a report on the rapid rise in housing prices, another blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just weeks before next month’s national election. Wednesday’s report says the cost of buying a house rose by over 50 percent in recent years. For many Israelis …

PARIS – The profile of “Jihadi John,” the university-educated Londoner whose masked face is emblematic of the grisly executions by the Islamic State group, is vastly different from that of the marginalized men who carried out terror attacks in France and Denmark. That comes as no surprise to those who …

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is about to give birth June 9 to her $8 million baby. That’s the advance she got from Simon and Schuster for her book on the White House years. Her agent promises a “candid book.” The question I have is why should anyone expect the Senator …

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s tourism minister has been replaced just as his father-in-law, the mayor of Caracas, is being charged with conspiring against the socialist government. President Nicolas Maduro went on television Tuesday night to announce that he had decided to give Andres Izarra a new job, though he didn’t …

BEIJING – A nun set herself on fire while crying out for the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet in the latest in dozens of self-immolations in recent years by Tibetans protesting Beijing’s controls over the region, overseas rights groups said. Yeshi Khando, 47, of Ngangang Nunnery circled Kardze Monastery …

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials have given permission to 100 Palestinian doctors to drive to jobs at Israeli hospitals — the first time Palestinian motorists have been permitted to enter the country in 15 years. Cogat, the Israeli security branch responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs, says its commander, Maj. Gen. Yoav …