A Mexican court has let two leaders of a radical teachers' union leave prison on a form of bail following weeks of protests by supporters over their arrests and recent education reforms that include mandatory teacher evaluations.
Police say a man who stole a small plane from a rural airport in the Greater Toronto Area has died after crashing the aircraft onto a busy commercial street in southern Ontario.
A judicial official says that a man who met with the two extremists who killed a priest last month in France has been questioned by an anti-terrorist judge.
Last week, officials of World Vision, an internationally known humanitarian organization, were indicted in Israel for secretly aiding military activities of Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a “Foreign Terror Organization.”
Police say suspected separatist rebels opened fire at a prayer meeting of Hindi-speaking migrants, killing two of them and wounding seven others in India's troubled remote northeast.
The Associated Press has named two experienced journalists to help lead its award-winning coverage of Latin America, rounding out an all-formats management team that will promote visual, digital-friendly storytelling and cutting-edge enterprise tailored to the needs of customers.
The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into death threats against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which was the target of an extremist attack in 2015.
The shooting of a suspected poacher by rangers in South Africa's biggest wildlife park set off protests by villagers living nearby, forcing officials to advise tourists to avoid one of the park's gates and seek alternative routes in and out of the reserve.
Pope Francis has met 20 women from six countries who have been freed from prostitution as part of his Holy Year of Mercy activities focusing on communities that have experienced suffering.
United Nations diplomats are expected to approve a new robust peacekeeping mandate and additional troops to help quell the violence in South Sudan, the world's youngest country.
A World Trade Organization panel has found largely in the European Union's favor in a dispute over tariffs imposed by Russia on some agricultural and manufactured goods.
Some ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar are expressing concern that a critical peace conference with the government has been scheduled for too early a date, limiting the opportunities for all parties to participate and jeopardizing the chances of success.
Britain's appeals court has ruled that the executive of the opposition Labour Party has the right to prevent tens of thousands of new members from voting in the party's leadership contest.
Prosecutors in Istanbul are demanding five-year prison terms for the leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish party and a senior party member who are accused of engaging in "propaganda for a terror organization." In an indictment released on Friday, the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office accused Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the People's Democratic Party, HDP, and party legislator Sirri Sureyya Onder, based on speeches they delivered in 2013 that allegedly praised the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, and its jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
One of three London schoolgirls who traveled to an area controlled by ISIS in Syria to become "jihadi brides" is believed to have been killed in an air strike, a lawyer for her family says.