By MARÍA VERZA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican army killed the country's most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States' most wanted fugitives, notching a major victory while cartel members responded with a wave of violence across the country. The killing Sunday ...

By HOGIR AL ABDO, GHAITH ALSAYED and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — U.S. forces are withdrawing from a key base in northeastern Syria, officials said Monday, in what appears to be part of a larger drawdown of U.S. forces in Syria. Iraqi and Syrian security ...

By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VERONA, Italy (AP) — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, ...

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Rob Jetten has become the youngest and first openly gay prime minister of the Netherlands. Before Jetten, 38, took the oath of office on Monday to lead a minority three-party ruling coalition, Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers ...

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court Monday dismissed all appeals in the city's biggest case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law, upholding the convictions and sentences of pro-democracy activists. Those who appealed were among 47 activists ...

By MUNIR AHMED and ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan's military killed at least 70 militants in strikes along the border with Afghanistan early Sunday, targeting what it described as hideouts of Pakistani militants it blamed for recent attacks inside ...