TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop says Honduras' two largest and most-violent gangs will sign a truce on Tuesday.
Monsignor Romulo Emiliani says the gangs will apologize to the public and ask for dialogue with the government and police to start changing from their gang lifestyle.
Emiliani spoke to The Associated Press on Friday. He said the Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street need government help to stop charging protection fees to...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Legislators in Puerto Rico on Friday approved a heavily debated bill that outlaws employment discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation.
Opponents of the bill prayed on the steps of the seaside Capitol building as lawmakers voted on a simplified version of the measure, which was widely rejected by religious organizations in the conservative U.S. territory.
The original version was broader and would have also...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's top security official said Friday that far fewer people disappeared during Mexico's drug war than were feared when the government released a list of about 26,000 cases.
Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal and state governments are working to weed out people who have been located. He noted that many of those included on the original list of 26,121 released earlier this year had left home for personal reasons or emigrated...
PARIS (AP) — The international police agency Interpol has rejected a Russian push to locate and arrest a Britain-based investor who is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin's regime.
France-based Interpol said in a statement Friday it has "deleted all information in relation to William Browder."
A special Interpol-related committee decided at a meeting Friday that "the case was of a predominantly political nature" and therefore Interpol shouldn'...
LONDON (AP) — A tweet posted by the wife of Britain's parliamentary speaker about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous, the High Court ruled Friday.
A BBC report last year led to widespread Internet chatter that falsely linked politician Alistair McAlpine to decades-old child sex abuse. The broadcaster didn't name McAlpine, but has paid him damages.
Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow, said she has settled a libel case...
PARIS (AP) — After two days of intense questioning from French magistrates, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said Friday a court named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman that was arranged while she was France's finance minister — stopping short of charging her outright.
Lagarde, seemingly relieved and insisting it's time to return to work, said the Paris court handed her the status of "...
CANNES, France (AP) — For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip "Nebraska," Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene Hackman out of retirement and considered the likes of Robert Duvall and Jack Nicholson. Bruce Dern calls them "the obvious guys."
"He said to me, 'I got an idea. Let's surprise them with you,'" Dern recalled of learning from Payne that he had the part. Payne, he says, continued: "'You haven't done this. You haven't done anything like this. Let's...
BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah's deputy chief says the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group "terrorist."
Sheikh Naim Kassem told Al-Mayadeen TV Friday that such threats "do not concern" or worry the group. He did not elaborate.
France this week joined an EU push to declare the group a terrorist organization amid frustration with Hezbollah's support for Syria's military.
France's move...
LONDON (AP) — According to a Pakistani official, two passengers on a flight from Pakistan to England today allegedly threatened to "destroy the plane" after an argument with crew.
The British military scrambled fighter jets to intercept the airliner, which was carrying more than 300 people, and it was diverted to an isolated runway at an airport outside London. The two British passengers who allegedly were speaking in Urdu when they made the threat were arrested....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Authorities in Afghanistan say two guards were killed when a Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked a guest house of an international aid group in the Afghan capital of Kabul today.
The attack set off a gun battle with security forces that lasted for hours in the upscale neighborhood.
According to the International Organization for Migration, four of its workers were wounded, including an Italian...
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