BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on the migration crisis as leaders from the EU and Turkey meet in Brussels (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Turkey’s prime minister says he hopes that a summit with European Union leaders on Monday will mark a turning point in relations as the EU seeks …

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) – Surkaw Omar and Rebien Abdullah quit their jobs and spent their life savings to migrate to Europe, only to find crowded asylum camps, hunger and freezing weather. Now back home in northern Iraq, they describe their quest for a better life as a disaster. They each …

BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi officials said on Monday that the death toll from Sunday’s suicide truck bombing south of Baghdad climbed to 61. Among the dead were 52 civilians, while the rest were members of the security forces, a police officer said. Another 95 people were injured in the attack …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea on Monday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South Korean military drills. Such threats have been a staple of young North Korean …

SEPANG, Malaysia (AP) – An American adventurer said Saturday that it would be a “very lucky discovery” if the piece of aircraft he found on a sandbank off the coast of Mozambique is confirmed to be from the Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished two years ago. Blaine Gibson flew to …

BENI SUEF, Egypt (AP) – The 32-year-old Egyptian government engineer disappeared in mid-January when, according to witnesses, masked police burst into his office in the southern city of Beni Suef and dragged him off in handcuffs in front of his co-workers. Mohammed Hamdan’s family searched for him for 15 days, …

BEIJING (AP) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered his annual address before China’s parliament on Saturday, laying out the government’s development agenda for the next five years and covering a broad variety of topics ranging from boosting the Internet industry and urban employment to cutting steel production and carbon emissions. …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Police have erected fences and are standing watch in front of the headquarters of Turkey’s largest-circulation newspaper a day after it used tear gas and water cannons to storm the building and enforce a court-ordered seizure. The seizure of Zaman newspaper and its sister outlets Friday …

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) – A regional governor is asking the Greek government to declare a state of emergency for the area surrounding the Idomeni border crossing where thousands of migrants are stranded due to border restrictions along the route toward western Europe. Apostolos Tzitzikostas, governor of the Greek region of …

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said Thursday, amid preparations for a highly anticipated summit of EU and Turkish leaders next week. European Council President Donald Tusk ended a six-nation tour of …