JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Crews were battling a fire and trying to rescue more survivors from a burning passenger ferry in rough seas Wednesday near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali. Rescuers and passing vessels had managed to save 1...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party's establishment. Flanagan defeated centrist U.S. Rep. Angie Craig with a ...

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin defeated longtime U.S. Rep. John Larson in Connecticut's Democratic primary Tuesday, as voters embraced generational change and a call for more urgency in the party's fight with President Donald Trump. Sp...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a "different plane" due to a threat that he insisted didn't scare him....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Wednesday that he survived a leadership vote prompted by a challenge from his defense minister less than three months before an election. The vote took place...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman have advanced to a runoff in South Carolina's special Republican primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the U.S. Senate, one month after his sudden death. A first...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Ammie Akin has won the Republican primary in Alabama's 7th Congressional District. She will face incumbent Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell in November. Sewell has represented the district since 2011. Aki...

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and directly involve the U.S. Postal Service in election operations in a way that would limit mail voting. ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Wednesday performed its second ballistic missile test in less than a week, its neighbors said, a likely protest of the upcoming South Korea-U.S. military drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - An overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe 's Lake Kariba on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and leaving 27 missing, the national disaster management agency said. It said 77 people were rescued and made it to a small island on...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Russia has released an American military veteran who spent more than four years in prison on disputed charges under abusive conditions and was said to be gravely ill and at risk of dying, a group advocating for him said Tuesday. ...

Yemeni authorities said six people were killed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, while U.S. forces fired on a ship they said was trying to break a blockade of Iran's ports. Here's a look at the l...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead in a remote part of the country's conflict-battered north, authorities said Tuesday. The clash, which occurred on Monday in the...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict that left about half a millio...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - At least 14 artisanal miners died and eight were injured when the walls of a mine in South Africa caved in on them, police said Tuesday. North West provincial police commissioner Lt. Gen. Arthur Adams said a search was...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - At least 2,000 people have died in Congo's Ebola outbreak, the fastest-growing on record, according to the latest data, as health authorities struggle to get help to remote localities due to rebel conflict, bad roads and work stoppa...

Soccer powerbrokers in Europe, North America and Asia and believe FIFA president Gianni Infantino's recent plan to sell an interest in the World Cup was a "fundamental breach of trust" with the institutions that the sport's global governing body serves...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's parliament on Monday approved legislation that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants in a bid to advance the government's peace initiative with their insurgent group. Legisl...

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. Th...

KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) - The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. July averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit (24.94 degrees Celsius) across...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, the World Health Organization said Monday as responders in eastern Congo struggle to catch up. The ...

CALI, Colombia (AP) - A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people, damaging hundreds of buildings and leaving many trapped under debris while their loved ones and rescue workers searched through ru...

Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia's Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 78 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-year-old war. The ...

LONDON (AP) - The alleged leader of an Irish organized crime gang was extradited to Ireland from Dubai on Sunday to face allegations that he ran an international drug smuggling and money laundering empire with tentacles that stretched to Britain, Spain...

ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) - Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68. The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys announced his death ...

Iran issued dramatic new demands around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the United Arab Emirates said one of its ships was targeted by an Iranian missile. Yemen's military attacked the country's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. And Turkey's Kur...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68. The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys announced his death...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Militants affiliated with the Islamic State group attacked a village in Congo near the border with Uganda early Saturday, killing at least 13 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said. T...