International News

Several nations are condemning North Korea's recent missile launches, with Japan calling the July Fourth firings a "serious act of provocation."

Officials say medical examiners have identified another eight of the 51 bodies recovered from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic five weeks ago.

A Yemeni aviation committee says pieces of wreckage from the passenger jet that crashed off the Comoros islands have been recovered.

A newspaper editorial is raising the prospect that Iran's main opposition leader could be arrested and charged over the country's postelection chaos.

A truck bombing outside a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan has triggered a two-hour gun battle that was ended with air strikes.

An Israeli defense official says Defense Minister Ehud Barak is to hold a second round of talks with U.S. special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell next week.

Vice President Joe Biden is celebrating the Fourth of July with his son and other American troops in Iraq.

A top aide of Iran's supreme leader has called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him of committing crimes against the nation.

Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting next week in central Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn.

The country's Supreme Court has rejected an ultimatum to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power.