BERLIN -- A German ship operator says five crew members kidnapped from one of its ships off the coast of Nigeria last month have been released.
HEROR, Iraq -- Bringing their rifles and hand grenades, the first Kurdish fighters crossed Tuesday from Turkey into northern Iraq as part of a peace deal to end a long uprising despite Iraqi objections to the transfer.
NEW DELHI -- The Indian government announced Tuesday the development of a new low-cost vaccine proven effective against a diarrhea-causing virus that is one of the leading causes of childhood deaths across the developing world.
GENEVA -- Swiss authorities disrupted more than 1,500 suspected money-laundering cases last year, including 15 linked to terrorist financing, officials said Tuesday.
BEIJING -- A Western tour company in China said Tuesday it has obtained permission from North Korea for Westerners to make day trips into the country from the Chinese border.
LUXOR, Egypt -- The lawyer of an Egyptian Coptic Christian teacher detained over charges of insulting Islam says she has been released on bail.
PARIS -- France's parliament is expected to pass a package of significant labor reforms Tuesday that the government hopes will help stop rising unemployment and jumpstart the country's stagnant economy.
MOSCOW -- Russia's security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian agent.
MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that focused on the situation in Syria, amid concerns that Moscow could soon provide Damascus with advanced missiles.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Prosecutors in Mauritania are seeking to lengthen to 10 years the sentence of a Canadian man already imprisoned on alleged links to terror groups, a judicial official said Tuesday.
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is getting back into its centuries-old tradition of arts patronage with its first-ever exhibit at the Venice Biennale, commissioning a biblically inspired show about creation, destruction and renewal for one of the world's most prestigious contemporary arts festivals.
GENEVA -- The European Court of Human Rights has found that Swiss laws on so-called passive assisted suicide are unclear and need revising to clarify when people are entitled to a medical prescription for a lethal dose of drugs.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's biggest food company on Monday hit back at President Nicolas Maduro's claims that it's to blame for the country's persistent food shortages.
MOSCOW -- A former Russian policeman accused of joining the Islamic insurgency in Russia's Caucasus has gone on trial on charges of masterminding a string of terrorist attacks.
TORONTO -- A Palestinian man convicted of hijacking an airliner in Greece in 1968 has been deported from Canada 26 years after entering the country using an alias, the immigration minister said Monday.
MEXICO CITY -- Two waiters at a Mexico City bar will face homicide and robbery charges in the beating death of Malcolm X's grandson Malcolm Shabazz, authorities said Monday.
SAVAR, Bangladesh -- Several of the biggest Western retailers embraced a plan that would require them to pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh as the three-week search for victims of the worst garment-industry disaster in history ended Monday with the death toll at a staggering 1,127.
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States says it will refuse to send its ambassador to any meeting of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament chaired by Iran because countries under U.N. sanctions shouldn't be allowed to hold such positions.
TRIPOLI, Libya -- A deadly car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in a busy area packed with civilians in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, destroying part of the facility, officials said.
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's treasurer says his economic blueprint for the fiscal year ahead will support jobs and growth without European-style austerity measures aimed at reining in the national deficit.