QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday killed 15 people, mainly police who had gathered to escort health workers, who have been repeatedly targeted in recent years by Islamic militants, officials said. The bombing of the polio center on the …

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) – Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed Wednesday after unidentified gunmen attacked the Pakistani consulate in a volatile eastern province, an official said on Wednesday. Attaullah Khyogani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said another seven security forces personnel were injured in during …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea on Wednesday fired 20 machine gun warning shots after a North Korean drone briefly crossed the rivals’ border, officials said, the first shots fired in a Cold War-style standoff between the Koreas in the wake of the North’s nuclear test last week. The …

ISTANBUL (AP) -The latest on the investigation into the explosion in the historic center of Istanbul. All times local. 1:20 p.m. Germany’s interior minister says there are no indications so far that Germans were specifically targeted in the attack in Istanbul. Germany has taken a noncombat role in the international …

WASHINGTON (AP) – With Americans soon to begin choosing his successor, President Barack Obama is casting his seven divisive years as a time of positive change, implicitly asking voters to replace him with a Democrat who would continue his hard-won policies on health care, climate change and Iran. Addressing a …

NEW YORK (AP) – Getting cable service no longer requires a technician who’ll come and install an ugly cable box. Instead, cable companies are starting to offer slimmed-down bundles of channels that you can stream to your TV over your Internet connection – sort of like Netflix, although mostly not …