ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Six Afghan children drowned after a rubber dinghy carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast on Tuesday, the state-run news agency reported. Five other migrants, including a 12-year-old boy, were rescued from the sea off the resort of Cesme, and were found floating in …

U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” immigrants and visitors alike, because of what he describes as hatred among “large segments of the Muslim population” toward Americans. The Associated Press is asking Muslims around the world for their …

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church. Francis stood in prayer on the threshold of the basilica’s Holy Door then walked through it, …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – The latest developments as tens of thousands of people make their way to Europe and across the continent, seeking safety and a better life. All times local. 2:35 p.m. The U.N. refugee agency is urging Jordan’s government to allow in around 12,000 people who are stranded …

Despite efforts to improve the air, levels of contamination a dozen times the World Health Organization safe level are not unusual, and the city issued a red alert for smog this week, keeping schools closed and half the vehicles off the streets. Not content with just the industrial white variety …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – As a student graduating from computer college two years ago, Mohammed Qudih was dreading the “painful” unemployment in the Gaza Strip – a war-battered coastal territory where nearly half the population is without work. Today, the 25-year-old engineer boasts about his company, its 20 …