WASHINGTON (AP) – Battling in intense public broadsides, Apple Inc. and the government are making their cases before anyone steps into a courtroom over a judge’s order forcing Apple to help the FBI hack into an iPhone in a sensational terrorism case. Both sides are framing their statements in ways …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on talks on a deal for Britain at the European Union summit (all times local): 11:25 a.m. British Prime Minister David Cameron has arrived for more EU talks saying he’ll do everything he can to secure a deal on the U.K.’s relationship with the bloc. …

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) – As the U.S. Congress passed a new set of sanctions on North Korea this week, South Korea shut down the last symbol of inter-Korean economic cooperation and the United Nations Security Council discussed its own measures to punish the North for what it claimed was …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – The Latest on the civil war in Syria (all times local): 12:45 p.m. An official with a predominantly Kurdish coalition in northern Syria says Turkish troops are bombing their positions in border areas and inflicting casualties among civilians. Ahmad al-Omar of the Syria Democratic Forces said …

MAFRAQ, Jordan (AP) – In a Jordanian border district packed with Syrian war refugees, anger is festering: many complain the mass influx has pushed down wages and driven up food and housing prices. The resentment is still tempered by empathy for the Syrians, who share religious and cultural beliefs with …