Top Mexican drug cartel leaders captured or killed in recent years: Jan. 8, 2016: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of Sinaloa cartel, caught by Mexican marines in Los Mochis, a seaside city in Sinaloa state. It is third time he is captured. Feb. 27, 2015: Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, one …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea trumpets a hydrogen bomb test. South Korea responds by cranking up blasts of harsh propaganda from giant green speakers aimed across the world’s most dangerous border. Now Pyongyang warns of war, even as it reportedly has started its own broadcasts. As the world …

BAGHDAD (AP) – As the sun sets over Iraq’s southern city of Basra, Ahmed Hilal rushes to lock his door. At night, every knock sends his heart beating faster. In the morning, the father of three or someone he trusts walks his children to school, barely five minutes away. Fear …

BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party on Saturday proposed stricter laws regulating asylum seekers after a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne blamed largely on foreigners. Merkel said the proposal, which will be discussed with her coalition partners and would need parliamentary approval, would …

LAS VEGAS (AP) – This year’s CES gadget show, like ones before it, showed off a mix of the dreamy and the practical in technology. Gadget prototypes promised us fully autonomous vehicles carrying commuters on the streets and in the sky, while gizmos went on sale that aimed to solve …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – As world leaders debated ways to penalize North Korea’s claim of a fourth nuclear test, South Korea voiced its displeasure with broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the rivals’ tense border Friday, believed to be the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The broadcasts …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea’s resumption of anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts from mammoth speakers in retaliation for the North’s fourth nuclear test is a return to old-fashioned, Cold War-era psychological warfare – something the two Koreas, locked in a standoff over the world’s most heavily armed border, specialize in. …

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranians held mass protests Friday across the Islamic Republic, angered by Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shiite cleric that has enflamed regional tensions between the Mideast rivals. The crisis has seen Saudi Arabia sever ties with Iran after crowds of protesters in Iran attacked two of …

BRUSSELS (AP) – A Brussels apartment was likely used to make bombs for the Paris attacks, and one of the plotters also hid out there after escaping a police dragnet, Belgian prosecutors said Friday. The prosecutors said they found Salah Abdeslam’s fingerprint in a search of the apartment on Dec. …

WASHINGTON (AP) – A scary sell-off in Chinese stocks is magnifying concerns about the health of the world’s second-biggest economy. The Shanghai Composite Index on Thursday tumbled 7 percent in 30 minutes before trading was suspended. The damage quickly rolled around the world: Stocks plunged in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London …