SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea’s latest belligerent declaration – that it successfully tested a new long-range rocket engine that could allow nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland – leaves outsiders in a familiar predicament. With only a few details and no independent confirmation of what happened, there’s the …

TOKYO (AP) – Next week, Secretary of State John Kerry will become the highest-ranking American government official to visit Hiroshima, where 140,000 Japanese died from the first of two atomic bombs dropped by his country in the closing days of World War II more than 70 years ago. Kerry and …

BEIRUT (AP) – Mohammed Khous was walking from the field hospital heading for his son’s house nearby to rest between operations. He would never make it: a sniper’s bullet to the head felled the 70-year-old in the street. With that, the Syrian town of Zabadani – under heavy siege by …