HONG KONG – Chinese state media have blasted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers for being “destroyers” of democratic development a day after they shot down Beijing’s election blueprint for the British former colony. The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper published an editorial Friday deploring the vote and accusing the pro-democracy …

An asylum seeker from Mexico suffered a miscarriage after she tripped and fell while shackled in immigration detention, even though pregnant detainees are not supposed to be restrained, her lawyers said. Monserrat Ruiz was given a pregnancy test after arriving at an immigration detention facility in Bakersfield, California, in May, …

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero say they have found 10 bodies in clandestine graves on the outskirts of the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco. State prosecutors spokesman Randy Suastegui said Monday that three women were among the dead. He said authorities have been examining …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. envoy for Yemen says the conflict-torn Middle East nation is “one step” from famine, with 31 million people needing humanitarian assistance compared to just 7 million two years ago. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters after briefing the Security Council behind closed doors Wednesday that …

BELLINZONA, Switzerland – Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court has rejected a request for release on bail by one of the seven men arrested on corruption charges last month in a raid on FIFA’s luxury hotel in Zurich. The Swiss court said “there was a risk that the appellant would abscond if …

UNITED NATIONS – France’s foreign minister is warning that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can explode “at any moment” and the Islamic State extremist group can interfere at any time. Laurent Fabius told a group of reporters Monday that “if and when it explodes, it’s very, very, very problematic for the whole …

UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the world should be ashamed that three years after major powers approved a blueprint in Geneva to bring peace to Syria the suffering of its people is reaching new depths. The U.N. chief said more than 220,000 Syrians have died in the conflict, …

PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to rule in a case brought by nearly 400 survivors and family members of victims of a school hostage-taking in southern Russia in 2004 that left more than 300 dead. The survivors and family members argue that the state failed …

LONDON – On his 10-year trip home, the Greek hero Odysseus at one point had to steer his ship and crew between Scylla, a six-headed monster, on one side of a narrow stretch of water and the whirlpool Charybdis on the other. The Greek people are in similar dire straits …

AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan’s state media say the security forces have arrested a man with purported links to an Iranian group on suspicion he planned to carry out terror attacks in the kingdom. The government-owned al-Rai newspaper says security forces seized 45 kilograms (99 pounds) of high-grade explosives in the …