Advocate kicks off 1,687 km river run

LAS VEGAS - Last time she ran 40 marathons in a row, Mina Guli wore out eight pairs of shoes. Now she is trying it a second time.

Italy's anti-establishment 5-Stars pull ahead

ROME - Like elsewhere in Europe and in the United States, Italy has seen a rising tide of anti-establishment sentiment and an eclectic grassroots movement is aiming for early elections and 40 percent of the vote now that polls have placed it well ahead of the ruling but fractured Democratic Party.

School operator makes donation claim

The head of a controversial education institute that is at the center of a political storm and accusations of hate speech claims he received a donation from the Japanese prime minister's wife and was then asked to hush it up.

Allies vow to destroy IS as attacks cast shadow over talks

WASHINGTON - The United States-led coalition against the Islamic State group vowed to crush the jihadists on Wednesday at a meeting overshadowed by an attack in London and civilian deaths in Syria.

Sunken ferry raised to surface after 3 years

SEOUL - Sunken South Korean passenger ferry Sewol was raised to the surface on Thursday after having lain on the seabed for almost three years.

Hundreds refused entry over watch list discoveries

CANBERRA - Hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees scheduled for resettlement in Australia have been refused entry on grounds of national security, it was revealed on Thursday, after security networks discovered their names were on an international watch list.

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UK follows US with laptop flight ban

WASHINGTON - The United Kingdom has followed the United States by banning larger electronic devices from the passenger cabin on flights from some airports in Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa.

33 killed in strike on shelter for displaced families

DAMASCUS - At least 33 people have been killed in a United States-led airstrike on a school in northern Syria, said a monitor group on Wednesday.

Park subjected to 14-hour interrogation

SEOUL - Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye left prosecutors' offices early on Wednesday after being questioned in an investigation into a corruption scandal that brought an early end to her political career.

One year after attacks, Belgium remembers

In the morning rush hour of March 22 last year, 29-year-old Charles Chauvaux was riding the metro to work. When the train arrived at Maelbeek station, a suicide bomb exploded in the carriage next to his.

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