BANGKOK (AP) – Dong Junming was detained several times in his Chinese homeland before he and his family fled to Bangkok in February 2015. A year later, he was preparing to make a more desperate journey to evade Chinese authorities who still felt dangerously close. In the months since he …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on explosions at Brussels airport and metro station (all times local): 2:25 p.m. A minute of silence has been held outside the Spanish parliament and Madrid’s town hall at noon in memory of the victims in Brussels. The Spanish government says the attacks Tuesday in …

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s president-elect on Tuesday proposed an 18-member Cabinet that will include party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident who campaigned for decades to replace the military junta with a democratically elected government. President-elect Htin Kyaw submitted the names to parliament for a formal review …

HAVANA (AP) – Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama’s sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated. For Obama, there’s no better place than …

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia on Monday warned the United States that it will start responding to cease-fire violations in Syria unilaterally starting Tuesday if the U.S. refuses to coordinate rules of engagement against the violators. A U.S. official contended the issues were being discussed “in a constructive manner.” The Russian …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea on Monday, Seoul officials said, in a continuation of weapon launches it has carried out in apparent response to ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills it sees as a provocation. The projectiles launched from a site near …

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greece’s prime minister warned Monday that an international agreement to limit the number of refugees traveling to Europe could not be properly implemented unless smugglers on the Turkish coast are stopped. Turkey’s president, meanwhile, slammed European countries for their criticism of his country’s record on human …

MADRID (AP) – The 13 exchange students killed in a bus crash in northeastern Spain this weekend were all women from other countries, including seven from Italy, a Catalan regional government official said Monday. The other six included two Germans, an Austrian, a French woman, a Romanian and an Uzbekistani, …

ISTANBUL (AP) – A suicide attacker detonated a bomb on Istanbul’s main pedestrian shopping street on Saturday, killing five people, the city’s governor said. Turkey’s health minister said 36 people were wounded in the attack including 12 foreign nationals. Governor Vasip Sahin said the explosion occurred outside a local government …

MOSCOW (AP) – A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball early Saturday while trying to land in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said the Boeing 737-800 operated by FlyDubai was …