By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain is facing a "staggering rise" in attempts at assassination, sabotage and other crimes on U.K. soil by Russia and Iran, as the two states recruit criminals to "do their dirty work," the head of the U.K.'s domestic intelligence agency ...

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Kashmir's biggest political party opposed to India's stripping of the region's semi-autonomy won the most seats in a local election, official data showed Tuesday, in a vote seen as a referendum against the move by Prime Minister ...

By ABBY SEWELL Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Sheikh Naim Kassem has been the acting head of Hezbollah since its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed as part of an Israeli offensive that has taken out many of the Lebanese militant group's senior officials. Kassem made a defiant ...

By BASSEM MROUE and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah's acting leader said Tuesday that even more Israelis will be displaced as the militant group extends its rocket fire deeper into Israel, in a defiant televised statement marking the anniversary of fighting that ...

By TIAN MACLEOD JI Associated Press LAN SAK, Thailand (AP) — Mourners wept and monks prayed at a cremation ceremony Tuesday in a small town in central Thailand for 23 young students and teachers who died in last week's bus fire on a school field trip. A large cremation site was set up ...

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese prosecutors said Tuesday they will not appeal the acquittal of the world's longest-serving death-row inmate in a retrial last month, bringing closure to the 1966 murder case after more than a half-century of legal ...