MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican marines had barely faced down .50-caliber sniper guns and a loaded grenade launcher to recapture the world’s most notorious drug lord when the calls started coming: Extradite Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States. And soon. Mexico’s leaders avoided talk about extradition following Guzman’s …

Top Mexican drug cartel leaders captured or killed in recent years: Jan. 8, 2016: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of Sinaloa cartel, caught by Mexican marines in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Sinaloa state. It is third time he is captured. Feb. 27, 2015: Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, one …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea trumpets a hydrogen bomb test. South Korea responds by cranking up blasts of harsh propaganda from giant green speakers aimed across the world’s most dangerous border. Now Pyongyang warns of war, even as it reportedly has started its own broadcasts. As the world …

BAGHDAD (AP) – As the sun sets over Iraq’s southern city of Basra, Ahmed Hilal rushes to lock his door. At night, every knock sends his heart beating faster. In the morning, the father of three or someone he trusts walks his children to school, barely five minutes away. Fear …

BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party on Saturday proposed stricter laws regulating asylum seekers after a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne blamed largely on foreigners. Merkel said the proposal, which will be discussed with her coalition partners and would need parliamentary approval, would …

LAS VEGAS (AP) – This year’s CES gadget show, like ones before it, showed off a mix of the dreamy and the practical in technology. Gadget prototypes promised us fully autonomous vehicles carrying commuters on the streets and in the sky, while gizmos went on sale that aimed to solve …