TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranians across the Islamic Republic voted Friday in the country’s first election since its landmark nuclear deal with world powers, deciding whether to further empower its moderate president or side with hard-liners long suspicious of the West. The election for Iran’s parliament and a cleric body …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iranians are voting Friday in the country’s first elections since the Islamic Republic sealed a landmark deal with the United States and other world powers over its disputed nuclear program last year. It is also the first nationwide vote since moderate President Hassan Rouhani …

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranians are voting on Friday for candidates for two separate institutions: the 290-seat parliament and the 88-seat Assembly of Experts, a clerical body empowered to choose or dismiss the country’s supreme leader. In parliament, supporters of moderate President Hassan Rouhani hope to dilute the influence of …

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 2:20 p.m. Serbia’s interior minister says the country has been formally informed that Croatia and Slovenia will take no more than 500 migrants per day – far below the daily number of people seeking …

LONDON (AP) – On the eve of the first anniversary of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov’s killing, his daughter says President Vladimir Putin bears some blame for the crime remaining unsolved. Nemtsov, one of the most energetic and vehement critics of the Russian leader, was gunned down on a bridge …

WASHINGTON (AP) – In its first salvo in a court fight that pits digital privacy rights against national security, Apple Inc. asked a federal magistrate to reverse her order forcing the company to help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone. The Thursday filing – a day before its formal …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The well-trodden path that has led hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants into the European Union’s heartland is increasingly eating at the core of the once-tight bloc. As destination countries unilaterally move to restrict new entries, others further back on the route have panicked that …

BEIRUT (AP) – Syrian government troops backed by Russian airstrikes recaptured a town in Aleppo province from Islamic State militants on Thursday in a key advance just two days ahead of a U.S. and Russia-engineered cease-fire that is to take effect in Syria. The town of Khanaser was seized earlier …

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – A U.S. citizen whose son has been detained in Iran for the past four months was also taken into custody after returning to the country this week, his lawyer confirmed Thursday in what is the first such action against an American national in Iran since last …

BEIJING (AP) – China’s Defense Ministry says the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific smeared China while seeking additional defense funding from Congress, in the latest accusation in a war of words accompanying rising tensions in the South China Sea. Ministry spokesman Col. Wu Qian on Thursday strongly criticized …