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With Turkey in crisis and Europe's borders closed, smugglers in northern Greece are expecting a profitable summer.

The Philippine president has publicly linked more than 150 judges, mayors, lawmakers and military personnel to illegal drugs, revoked their gun licenses and asked them to surrender for investigation.

Thailand held a referendum Sunday on a new constitution amid severe restrictions imposed by the military junta.

Japanese will tune in to Emperor Akihito's rare video message Monday following reports that he would abdicate in the next few years, which initially came as shock but was welcomed by many as a deserved rest for the 82-year-old beloved monarch.

Thais began voting Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that critics say was tailor-made for the military government to stay in control for several years and entrench a new, quasi-democratic system that gives vast powers to appointed officials.

At least three people died in a landslide in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz as what had been Tropical Storm Earl dumped copious amounts of rain on the region, authorities said Saturday.

Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz has quit a committee set up by Panama's government to study the country's financial system following the leak of a trove of data about offshore accounts set up by a Panamanian law firm.

Police say gunmen have kidnapped two Chinese miners in central Nigeria.

A fast-moving fire that appeared to be accidental swept through a birthday party in a basement bar in northwest France, killing at least 13 people and injuring six others, authorities said Saturday.

Puerto Rico's government says it has raided three more businesses with a combined tax debt of over $500,000, the latest of 132 firms collectively owing $48.9 million that are being targeted in a campaign started last year.

Three people are dead after an overnight fire in a city west of Toronto that began in one house and spread to another.

The Latest on the attack against two female officers in Belgium (all times local): 6:45 p.m.

Belgian police say two female officers have been attacked and wounded by a man wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu Akhbar" outside a police station in the city of Charleroi.

Egypt's president has defiantly dismissed criticism of his handling of the country's ailing economy, arguing that the skeptics were seeking to undermine the will of Egyptians.

Syrian insurgent groups launched a fresh offensive Saturday seeking to break a government siege on rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists and state media said.

A machete attack that injured two female police officers in the Belgian city of Charleroi Saturday appears to be an act of terrorism, officials said.

An Air Algeria plane en route to Marseille has been forced to return to Algiers due to an unspecified technical failure.

A new elite Taliban force is proving its strength in the strategic southern province of Helmand, pointing to the insurgents' ability to refine their battlefield techniques to match Afghanistan's increasingly professional national army.

Protesters in Zimbabwe have used a cricket match against New Zealand as the scene of their latest anti-government demonstration.

A retired California firefighter who was stabbed in the right arm during Wednesday’s deadly stabbing attack in London said he tried to stop the assailant who managed to duck under his arms and continue his rampage.