BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s federal criminal police said Thursday they are in possession of files containing personal data on members of the extremist Islamic State group and believe them to be authentic. The announcement came after Britain’s Sky News reported it had obtained 22,000 Islamic State files on the border …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea responded Thursday to new sanctions from South Korea by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance and vowing to “liquidate” all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North. The moves are the latest in …

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A judge in South Africa found a woman guilty Thursday of kidnapping a newborn nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raising the girl as her own, a spokesman for the prosecution said. Judge John Hlophe in Cape Town convicted the woman of kidnapping, fraud and …

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – The party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi officially confirmed Thursday that she will not become Myanmar’s next president. Unofficially, she has vowed to be the de-facto leader by calling the shots from behind the scenes, and party members said Thursday that’s how things will …

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel said Thursday it is looking into the shooting death of a Palestinian attacker who killed an American student in a stabbing spree earlier this week. In Tuesday’s attack, the Palestinian assailant ran through the ancient port city of Jaffa with a knife, stabbing several people along …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – The rules of Go, the ancient Chinese board game that is the stage for a man-vs-machine battle this week, are beautifully simple. Actually playing it is anything but. Go is considered to be far more complex than chess, making it remarkable that a cutting-edge computer …