SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Twitter has revised its rules of conduct to emphasize that it prohibits violent threats and abusive behavior by users, promising a tough stance at a time when critics are calling for the online service to adopt a harder line against extremists. While the new policy unveiled …

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday reduced former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s sentence in a bribery case dating back to years before he became the premier, sending him to prison for 18 months instead of six years. Olmert, who is to start serving his sentence in February 2016, …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – A day after trumpeting an “irreversible” settlement of a decades-long standoff over Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s WWII military, there’s relief among South Korean and Japanese diplomats, fury among activists and many of the elderly victims and general public indifference in both …