PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Fistfights and sporadic reports of voter fraud marked weekend elections that saw Haitians choose lawmakers for the next Parliament in a contest that was delayed for years. The legislative elections had been postponed for nearly four years because of a political showdown between Haiti’s executive and opposition. …
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VIENNA – Hungarian neo-Nazis hoping to visit the Austrian art academy that rejected Hitler have received the same response — no admittance. Advised of the group’s plans, the Academy of Visual Arts shuttered its doors Thursday. Deputy rector Andrea B. Braidt says the institute will stay closed until late in …
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BEIJING – Authorities in Tianjin say massive explosions and fires this week at a warehouse for hazardous materials have so far not caused any detectable air or water contamination, citing samples taken at 17 locations. However, they say they have no clear picture of what materials were at the transit …
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MOSCOW – Kazakhstan’s currency, the tenge, has plunged in value by over 20 percent against the dollar after the government decided to move to a free float. The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange said the tenge was trading at over 250 to the dollar Thursday afternoon after closing at 197.05 the day …
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STOCKHOLM – A Swedish prosecutor says an Uzbekistan national suspected of the 2012 attempted murder of an imam who was critical of the Uzbek regime has been extradited to the Scandinavian country. Prosecutor Krister Petersson says the man was arrested in Moscow in January on an international arrest warrant. Petersson …
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PERTH, Australia – Paul Royle, an Australian pilot who took part in a mass breakout from a German prisoner of war camp during World War II that is remembered as The Great Escape, has died in his hometown of Perth, his son said Friday. He was 101. The escape was …
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BAGHDAD – Security officials say a roadside bomb targeting a border guard convoy has killed five officers. The officials say Saturday’s blast hit the convoy, headed to the border with Jordan in western Iraq, near the border post of Trebil. Officials also say a pair of roadside bombs killed five …
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UNITED NATIONS – The global parliamentary organization says the speaker of the Russian Parliament’s upper house will address its world conference Monday afternoon by video — and not in person because the U.S. barred her from attending. Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko is under U.S. sanctions in connection with …
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ANKARA, Turkey – A Dutch journalist says she has been detained by police while covering clashes in a town in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast region. Frederike Geerdink said on her Twitter account Sunday that she was detained in the town of Yusekova and would be questioned by a prosecutor. It …
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PARIS – French officials say two French jets have made their first reconnaissance forays over Syria. Tuesday’s confirmation from Laurent Fabius and a French military official comes as Britain defended a drone strike in Syria that left two Britons dead. France’s president, announcing plans for the reconnaissance flights, said they …
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