RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia says the suicide bomber behind Friday’s attack on a Shiite mosque in the port city of Dammam that killed four people was a Saudi national. The Interior Ministry on Wednesday identified the bomber as 19-year-old Khalid Ayed Mohammed Wahabi Shammari. He disguised himself as …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan police have charged five men in court for allegedly participating in an attack by militant group al-Shabab on a university in eastern Kenya in which 148 people were killed. The five men pleaded not guilty Thursday to 152 counts of committing acts of terrorism in a …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s emergency management agency says more than 6,000 Syrians have crossed into Turkey in the past week, fleeing fighting between Islamic State militants and Kurdish forces near the northern Syrian city of Tel Abyad. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said Wednesday that the refugees entered through …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan government official says it has a goal of getting 100,000 Somali refugees to voluntarily go back home by the end of the year. Government officials have blamed refugee camps in Kenya for the rise in extremism in the country. Following an extremist attack on a …
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ATHENS, Greece – A government official says Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has told senior aides to “forget about elections or a referendum,” whatever the outcome of the country’s talks with creditors. The official said Tsipras told four senior ministers Friday that his government, elected last January, has a fresh …
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MEXICO CITY – Prosecutors in the Mexican border state of Baja California say the 19-year-old daughter of a Russian woman has confessed to killing and dismembering her mother and her 12-year-old sister, because she thought they were performing witchcraft against her. An official of the state prosecutors’ office who was …
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MEXICO CITY – Some coastal towns closed their schools and small boats were ordered off the sea near the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta as a weakening Hurricane Carlos swirled up Mexico’s southwestern coast. Carlos lost power Tuesday night, with its sustained winds barely strong enough to make it …
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NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ deputy government spokesman has denied allegations by British holidaymakers of an attempted abduction of their children at their hotel. Viktoras Papadopoulos Friday called the heavy media play the allegations got in Britain “unnecessary and completely unfounded.” Papadopoulos says police found nothing to incriminate a 19-year-old Bulgarian …
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s prime minister says the Australian, Malaysian and Dutch governments will hold services on July 17 to mark the first anniversary of the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives. Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament on Monday that …
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BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia has unveiled a monument to Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo helped ignite World War I and still provokes controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans. Hundreds of citizens attended the ceremony in central Belgrade on Sunday — the day of the 1914 …
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