BRUSSELS (AP) – The rain has washed away the defiant chalk slogans from the square in front of Brussels’ stock exchange, the barriers are gone from many subway stations and trams are back running in the streets. Europe’s capital returned to work Wednesday but it isn’t business as usual. A …

BRUSSELS (AP) – A pedestrian strip outside the stock exchange in Brussels became a colorful canvas of support and defiance after Tuesday’s deadly bombings as those wanting to show solidarity chalked messages – in French, Flemish, English, Arabic and Cyrillic script and more. A few thousand people were gathered at …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)  After years of anti-American posturing by its leader, Argentina has a new president whose outstretched hand has been eagerly accepted by the United States. President Barack Obama will reward the South American nation on Wednesday with a state visit aimed at keeping that promising trajectory on …

NEW YORK (AP) – For more than a month, federal investigators have insisted they have no alternative but to force Apple to help them open up a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. That changed Monday when the Justice Department said an “outside party” recently showed the …

BRUSSELS (AP) – Attackers detonated bombs at the airport and on a metro train beneath the European Union’s capital on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and confirming the worst fears of European officials, who proclaimed the continent at war. Two explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide …

MOSCOW (AP) – Authorities in Europe and beyond have tightened security at airports, on subways, at the borders and on city streets after deadly attacks Tuesday on the Brussels airport and its subway system. With Brussels on lockdown and the French prime minister saying that Europe is “at war,” European …

BANGKOK (AP) – Dong Junming was detained several times in his Chinese homeland before he and his family fled to Bangkok in February 2015. A year later, he was preparing to make a more desperate journey to evade Chinese authorities who still felt dangerously close. In the months since he …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on explosions at Brussels airport and metro station (all times local): 2:25 p.m. A minute of silence has been held outside the Spanish parliament and Madrid’s town hall at noon in memory of the victims in Brussels. The Spanish government says the attacks Tuesday in …

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s president-elect on Tuesday proposed an 18-member Cabinet that will include party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident who campaigned for decades to replace the military junta with a democratically elected government. President-elect Htin Kyaw submitted the names to parliament for a formal review …

HAVANA (AP) – Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama’s sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated. For Obama, there’s no better place than …