RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi military says a soldier posted along the country’s southern border has died of wounds sustained from a missile strike launched by Shiite rebels inside Yemen. The rebels, known as Houthis, frequently fire missiles from inside Yemen at Saudi border posts. More than two dozen …

ISLAMABAD – State-run Pakistani TV says at least two cars of a train have fallen into a canal because of a bridge collapse, killing at least two people. It said the incident took place Thursday near Gujranwala, a city in the eastern Punjab province. TV networks showed footage of soldiers …

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Some Oregonians woke on the Fourth of July to a significant jolt when a magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck near Springfield and Eugene. Hundreds of people reported to the U.S. Geological Survey that they felt the quake, which struck at 8:42 a.m. Saturday. Usually, there isn’t any damage …

LAGOS, Nigeria – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a bailout of more than $2 billion for states to resolve a crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid for months. A government statement Tuesday says the money will come from $2.1 billion in dividends recently paid by the …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run agency says Tahsin Sahinkaya, the last surviving member of a junta that led Turkey’s 1980 military coup, has died. He was 90. Anadolu says former air force commander Sahinkaya died at a military hospital in Istanbul on Thursday. The cause of death was not immediately …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian police official says police killed 30 armed people who tried to illegally enter the country’s territory from Eritrea. Assefa Abiyu of the Ethiopian Federal Police Commission told the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation that Ethiopian forces have taken measures against fighters believed to be trained …

BAUCHI, Nigeria – Nigerian police say they’re investigating reports that dozens of people were killed in attacks by Boko Haram Islamic extremists in a remote region in the country’s northeast. Haruna Bukar, a civilian security agent in the area, told The Associated Press that more than 40 villagers were killed …

LONDON – Britain’s foreign secretary has said that Israel wants a “permanent standoff” with Iran and suggests it wouldn’t have welcomed any kind of nuclear deal. Responding to an opposition lawmaker who criticized the deal struck between Iran and the West aimed at keeping Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, …

WASHINGTON – A U.S. airstrike in Syria has killed a key figure in a dangerous al-Qaida offshoot, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Muhsin al-Fadhli was killed in a July 8 air attack while traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement. Davis did …

Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report the economy added about 230,000 jobs in November, and the White House will tout the economic recovery has created jobs for a record 57 months in a row. Voters rejected that message by ousting Democrats in the mid-term elections, quite simply because …