HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam's vice trade minister has been fired for alleged wrongdoing as the ruling Communist Party widened its crackdown on corruption.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xua...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — There has been a spike in violence in an eastern town in Saudi Arabia, where masked security forces patrol the streets in armored cars and come under fire from local...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's new crown prince hopes to transform the kingdom and modernize society, but the planned execution of 14 Shiite protesters charged with violence against...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Radesh Singh's grandfather was just 11 years old when he left his village in India's Punjab province to move to Peshawar, in the far northwest of the country on the border wi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament has voted to end the death penalty for certain drug violations in a move that could prevent some 5,000 convicted smugglers from being executed.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court is recommending that parliament review Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law and make changes that will prevent people from being falsely accused of the crime, which is punis...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's federal prosecutors say they've opened an investigation into whether Vietnam conducted illegal espionage in Berlin, after a Vietnamese national wanted by that country on embezz...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Human rights groups have expressed concern over the Maldives government's purported plan to carry out its first execution in 60 years. Seven groups, including Amnesty Interna...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on an Indianapolis man charged with fatally shooting a police officer (all times local):
2:50 p.m.
A man accused of fatally shooting ...
PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors sentenced a Phoenix woman to death on Monday in the killing of a 10-year-old cousin who was locked in a small plastic storage box and left to die as punishment for stealing an ic...
Today in History
Today is Monday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2017. There are 146 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On August 7, 1...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's government, facing mounting criticism for the planned execution of 14 Shiite Muslims, has issued a rare statement defending its judicial system.
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam says it regrets comments by the German Foreign Ministry accusing Vietnamese intelligence services of kidnapping a former Vietnamese oil executive who's wanted back home o...
HOUSTON (AP) — Federal authorities are detaining some survivors of a deadly human smuggling operation in the same facility as the driver of the truck in which they were smuggled, and advocates are wor...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey put nearly 500 people on trial Tuesday on charges of leading last year's failed coup, parading dozens of the men into a courthouse as protesters threw stones and shouted "...
