JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – In the course of six years without a major terrorist attack, Indonesia had grown more and more confident that it had stayed on top of any threat from Islamic militants. This week, that conviction was punctured by a bold, daylight attack in the heart of Jakarta’s …

BEIRUT (AP) – The U.N. children’s agency said Friday that it witnessed the death of a teenager who died of starvation “in front of our eyes,” as well as several cases of severe malnutrition among children trapped in a besieged Syrian town near Damascus. Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s representative in Syria, …

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Kenya’s president said on Friday that Kenyan troops were killed when al-Shabab Islamic fighters attacked an African Union base in Somalia. He gave no casualty figure but an al-Shabab spokesman said at least 63 soldiers died. President Uhuru Kenyatta described the loss as heartbreaking. “Regrettably, some …

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Samples taken from the body of a woman who died this week in Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, officials said Friday, the day after the Ebola epidemic was declared over. The World Health Organization, which on Thursday declared an end to the deadliest Ebola …

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Taiwan appears all but certain to elect a female president on Saturday, underscoring the vast political gains women have made over the island’s decades-long transition from authoritarianism to thriving democracy. While the Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen would hardly be the first Asian woman elected head …