LONDON – Marguerite Patten, the home economist and chef who helped educate Britons on how to survive on rations during World War II, has died. She was 99. Her family said Wednesday that Patten died on June 4. She suffered a stroke in 2011, and had been living in a …
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LONDON – Britain’s terror legislation watchdog says the country needs a new law on monitoring online communications, arguing a fresh approach is necessary to address the concerns of both law enforcement and privacy advocates. The independent reviewer of terror legislation, David Anderson, on Thursday proposed a new blueprint for surveillance …
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SKOPJE, Macedonia – Macedonia’s ombudsman has criticized the government over its treatment of migrants, saying they are being held beyond a 30-day legal limit in “degrading and inhumane” conditions. Macedonia has become a major transit route for thousands of migrants, mostly from Syria and Iraq, heading to the European Union. …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The global chemical weapons watchdog says that waste created on board a U.S. ship that destroyed toxic chemicals from Syria’s stockpile has been successfully disposed of. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced Wednesday that the disposal of thousands of tons of waste was …
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PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea’s Supreme Court has convicted two South Koreans on state subversion charges and sentenced them to life in prison with labor. The sentences for Kim Kuk-gi and Choe Chun-gil were handed down Tuesday after they were found guilty of spying for South Korea. Officials in …
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NEW DELHI – Police say a head-on collision between a bus and a truck has killed at least 18 people and injured 13 others in western India. Police officer Nagar Goje says the accident occurred Thursday when the two vehicles swerved to avoid a motorcyclist, who was crushed to death. …
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The Saudi military says no Scud missiles have struck the country, rebutting claims by Yemeni rebels that they launched a missile targeting the kingdom. Yemen’s Houthi rebels said late Monday that they launched a Scud at a Saudi military base that is located about 700 kilometers …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s governor says creditors are responsible for helping the U.S. island out of its economic crisis because they lent money knowing the government was running a deficit. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla also sought to clarify comments recently published in The New York Times saying …
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran is rejecting reports by Jordanian state media that a terror suspect arrested in Jordan on suspicion that he planned attacks against the kingdom is linked to an Iranian group. The spokesman for Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ramazan Sharif, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that …
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BERLIN – German authorities are moving toward officially recognizing as a “genocide” the colonial-era crackdown in Namibia by German troops more than a century ago in which more than 65,000 ethnic Hereros were killed. German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said Friday that talks with Namibia on a joint declaration …
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