BEIRUT – Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says a boat carrying about 40 Palestinians from a refugee camp in Syria capsized en route to Turkey and that at least nine migrants drowned. Wednesday’s report says the vessel left the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Monday and capsized after entering …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The $192,000 in payouts to fans attending the PGA Tour’s Greenbrier Classic last month is now in dispute. The Charleston Gazette-Mail (http://bit.ly/1hOdADR ) reports the tournament’s London-based underwriters filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against The Greenbrier Classic’s nonprofit financial arm, Old White Charities. George McNeill and Justin …

BELEN, N.M. – A group of people in New Mexico say they cooked the world’s longest tamale Saturday morning. Luis Hernandez of the ABQ West Chamber of Commerce says that a team of more than 30 chefs at Viva II, a three-day celebration of the state’s heritage, assembled a 116-foot. …

The first annual meeting of the nations that have ratified the 2014 Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) opened on Monday, August 24 at a spa in Cancun, Mexico. The treaty’s been controversial in the U.S. from the moment negotiations on it began, and this meeting will surely stoke the suspicions of …

ROME – Italy’s coast guard says some 50 bodies have been found in the hull of a migrant boat that was rescued off Libya’s northern coast. Coast guard Lt. Claudio Bernetti said the Swedish ship Poseiden, which is taking part in the EU’s Triton Mediterranean operation, rescued 439 surviving migrants …

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – Officials and media reports say two British journalists have been detained in Turkey’s largest, mainly-Kurdish city, along with their translator. The Dogan news agency said Vice News correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury were being questioned by anti-terrorism police in Diyarbakir on Friday. An official from …

MADRID – A Spanish mayor says a man has died after being charged down and gored by a bull that was being herded into a northern village as part of annual celebrations to honor its patron saint. Jesus Garcia Pastor said the 66-year-old man had wandered into an area of …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch government is appealing a landmark court ruling that ordered it to slash greenhouse gas emissions, in a case seen as a possible precedent for similar legal action around the world. The government announced Tuesday it will appeal the June ruling that it must cut …

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged a reduction of 300,000 troops from China’s 2.3 million-member People’s Liberation Army, amid rising personnel costs and growing technological capabilities that reduce the need for large numbers of troops. The announcement Thursday at the start of a massive parade commemorating Japan’s World …

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – A massive slab of rock is threatening to come crashing down at the base of an Arizona dam. A three-person crew has been working to stabilize the sandstone that forms the walls surrounding the Glen Canyon dam near the Arizona-Utah border. The slab weighs 500,000 pounds and …