FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Institutional investors are suing automaker Volkswagen in a German court, seeking 3.25 billion euros ($3.57 billion) in damages over the company’s diesel emissions scandal. Attorney Andreas Tilp said Tuesday in a statement that the suit was joined by investors from 14 countries, including the U.S., Australia, …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the militants. Nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, …

GRAND-BASSAM, Ivory Coast (AP) – Survivors of the first attack by Islamic extremists in Ivory Coast described scenes of confusion and fear as the jihadists gunned down defenseless civilians at a beachfront resort town. The attack left 16 dead. Those who make a living off tourism believed the attack on …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is holding what her agenda describes as a “political coordination” meeting one day after nationwide demonstrations urging her ouster brought millions into the streets. Brazil’s top newspapers said Sunday’s protests were the largest political demonstrations in the country’s history. The …

BEIRUT (AP) – They are as old as the Syrian war: Five-year-old Syrian children growing up as refugees in foreign, unfamiliar places far away from home. They are the silent victims of a horrific war, innocent of the violence that surrounds them yet already familiar with grown-up words like war, …

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – More than 80 percent of Syria’s children have been harmed by the country’s conflict, including growing numbers of those who were forced to work, join armed groups or marry young because of widening poverty, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday, on the fifth anniversary of the …

NEW YORK (AP) – You can dunk Samsung’s new smartphones in water, but don’t drop them on a sidewalk, a new study finds. SquareTrade, a company that offers extended-protection plans for gadgets, said the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge still functioned after being submerged in water for 30 minutes. Audio …

BEIRUT (AP) – After five years of bloodshed – after a quarter of a million deaths, and the flight of millions of refugees – Syria has arrived at a critical juncture: A diplomatic framework is in place to end the carnage, a two-week-old partial cease-fire is holding, and peace talks …

As the war in Syria enters its sixth year with no clear end in sight, here is a glance on what has been the cost of the war: DEAD AND INJURED – There are no reliably precise statistics on the number of people killed in Syria’s war due to an …

As Syrians mark the fifth anniversary of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, here are some of the key events in the conflict: – March 2011: Protests erupt in the city of Daraa over security forces’ detention of a group of boys accused of painting anti-government graffiti on the walls …