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 …

JERUSALEM (AP) – A quiet revolution is arising inside the insular world of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community – chipping away at the ghetto walls its leaders have erected to protect against what they see as the dangers of secularism. More and more, young ultra-Orthodox insist they can continue to lead …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A Supreme Court judge suspended former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s nomination to a Cabinet post amid corruption investigations, a decision likely to stoke tensions in a country already rocked by dueling pro- and anti-government demonstrations. In his ruling late Friday, Justice Gilmar …

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) – A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking Tribune Publishing Co.’s purchase of Southern California newspapers the Orange County Register and the Press-Enterprise of Riverside. The move late Friday from U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. comes a day after the U.S. Department …

CAMPINA GRANDE, Brazil (AP) – In May, as the first cases of the Zika virus were being detected in Brazil, Rossandra Oliveira stopped receiving a critical tool she needed to do her job: insecticide. Monthly shipments from the government to her office at the epicenter of the outbreak stopped. Oliveira, …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea ignored U.N. resolutions by firing a medium-range ballistic missile into the sea on Friday, Seoul and Washington officials said, days after its leader Kim Jong Un ordered weapons tests linked to its pursuit of a long-range nuclear missile capable of reaching the U.S. …

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union and Turkish leaders were locked in tense negotiations on Friday as the EU seeks to send tens of thousands of migrants back to Turkey and ease the pressure from a human emergency that is increasingly dividing the bloc. But making a tough early stand, Turkish …

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) – Her children are in Germany, safe in a refugee shelter with their father. But for their mother, stuck in an increasingly fetid, overflowing camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, the separation and the uncertainty of when – or if – she will see her children again is …