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 …

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – A hotel owner in Mozambique says the sandbank where a possible piece of a missing Malaysian airliner was found is in waters with treacherous currents and is not normally visited by tourists. Tony Manna, who owns a beachfront hotel in the Mozambican town of Vilankulo, said Friday …

TOKYO (AP) – The new U.N. sanctions on North Korea are out and they are going to pinch Pyongyang hard. But they also beg a big question – since sanctions thus far have failed to persuade North Korea to roll over and give up its nukes, are more, but tougher, …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his military to be ready to launch nuclear strikes at any time, state media reported Friday, an escalation in rhetoric targeting Seoul and Washington that may not reflect the country’s actual nuclear capacity. The threats are part of …

PARIS (AP) – The Latest on Syria’s conflict (all times local): 2 p.m. France’s president says discussions about a political transition in Syria will “accelerate” with the cease-fire that has held for a week across the war-wracked country. Francois Hollande, after speaking with the leaders of Russia, Germany, Britain and …