CAIRO - At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in the latest assault on a religious minority increasingly targeted by Islamist militants.
LOS ANGELES - The US Navy said on Saturday it had sent the USS Carl Vinson Strike Group to the Korean Peninsula.
MOSCOW - Russia intends to discuss international counterterrorism with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during his visit next week, despite clouded Russia-United States ties, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov said on Saturday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani affirmed his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on Sunday, following last week's United States missile strike on a Syrian airbase.
STOCKHOLM - Swedish police have brought in seven people for questioning over an apparent terror attack in which a hijacked delivery truck mowed down pedestrians in Stockholm, killing four people, authorities said on Sunday.
ST. PETERSBURG - Russian investigators on Thursday detained eight people suspected of involvement in Wednesday's bombing of the St. Petersburg metro as the nation held memorials to honor the 13 victims.
SEOUL - Shin Dong-bin, chief of Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-largest family-controlled conglomerate, was summoned for questioning by prosecutors on Friday over his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal embroiling impeached president Park Geun-hye.
LOS ANGELES - Don Rickles, the master insult comic who created laughs with ridicule and sarcasm in a decades-long career that earned him the nickname "Merchant of Venom," died of kidney failure at his Los Angeles home on Thursday.
WASHINGTON - Astronomers have made what they believe to be the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system.
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