SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – As world leaders debated ways to penalize North Korea’s claim of a fourth nuclear test, South Korea voiced its displeasure with broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals’ tense border Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The broadcasts …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s resumption of anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts from mammoth speakers in retaliation for the North’s fourth nuclear test is a return to old-fashioned, Cold War-era psychological warfare – something the two Koreas, locked in a standoff over the world’s most heavily armed border, specialize in. …

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranians held mass protests Friday across the Islamic Republic, angered by Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shiite cleric that has enflamed regional tensions between the Mideast rivals. The crisis has seen Saudi Arabia sever ties with Iran after crowds of protesters in Iran attacked two of …

BRUSSELS (AP) – A Brussels apartment was likely used to make bombs for the Paris attacks, and one of the plotters also hid out there after escaping a police dragnet, Belgian prosecutors said Friday. The prosecutors said they found Salah Abdeslam’s fingerprint in a search of the apartment on Dec. …

WASHINGTON (AP) – A scary sell-off in Chinese stocks is magnifying concerns about the health of the world’s second-biggest economy. The Shanghai Composite Index on Thursday tumbled 7 percent in 30 minutes before trading was suspended. The damage quickly rolled around the world: Stocks plunged in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London …

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Umbilical cord? These days, it’s more like a USB cord. Whether in the womb or in one’s twilight years, our lives are becoming ever more connected. Nowhere has that been more evident than at the annual CES gadget show in Las Vegas, where everything from pregnancy …