PALMYRA, Syria (AP) – Explosions rocked the ancient town of Palmyra on Friday and on the horizon, black smoke wafted behind its majestic Roman ruins, as Syrian army experts carefully detonated hundreds of mines they say were planted by Islamic State militants before they fled the town. An Associated Press …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The photo is jarring: a teenage girl lying on a slab, her chest sliced open exposing bone and blood. There’s a gaping wound in the left side of her head. It’s hard to look at, but Nardyne Jefferies has made it her mission since her daughter was …

KOLKATA, India (AP) – Rescuers said Friday there was no hope of finding any more survivors after clearing the crumbled concrete and twisted metal rods from an overpass that collapsed onto a crowded Kolkata neighborhood, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 80. Sixty-seven people were pulled from …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea and tried to jam GPS navigation signals in South Korea on Friday, Seoul officials said, hours after U.S., South Korean and Japanese leaders pledged to work closer together to prevent North Korea from advancing its nuclear …

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – A prominent political prisoner was released Friday after he finished his six-month jail sentence, coincidentally on the day that Myanmar’s new, democratically-elected government began working. Patrick Kum Ja Lee’s release was on schedule and not ordered freed by the new government. But it serves as a …

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) – Through the coils of razor wire and a fence that stretches across green fields, the gathered people can see what has become a forbidden land – Macedonia and its still-snow-capped mountains, the route they had hoped to take on their journey northward through the Balkans to …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Brussels attacks have given a boost to the far right in Belgium and beyond, and their anti-Islam language is finding a special resonance after another bloodbath by Islamic State extremists. Just as the Paris attacks that killed 130 people in November reinvigorated the right-wing National Front …