International

MANILA — The United States reiterated its call for an end to reclamation activities and "militarization" in the disputed South China Sea Wednesday, as the territorial row with Beijing clouded an annual trade summit in the Philippines.

PARIS — A raid in a Paris suburb left several dead early Wednesday amid reports of gunfire and explosions as police hunted the alleged mastermind of last week's terrorist attacks.

MOSCOW — Russia for the first time said Monday that a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet in Egypt last month that killed all 224 people on board.

PARIS — French President Francois Hollande pledged Monday to "destroy" the Islamic State through stepped up military action in Syria, tougher anti-terrorism laws at home and in the European Union, and greater international mobilization.

PARIS — The terrorist attacks in Paris were "organized, thought out, planned out of Syria," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday, as prosecutors said that one of the suicide bombers could possibly have come from the war-torn Middle Eastern country.

YANGON — Several of Myanmar's ethnic rebel groups are eager to start peace negotiations with the next government, they said Sunday after the election win by the opposition National League for Democracy.

By Ei Cherry Aung and Phyo Thiha Cho
Myanmar Now

YANGON — Two leading members of the Buddhist nationalist monk group Ma Ba Tha cautiously welcomed the landslide victory of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy in the country’s election, but warned against any attempt to change the controversial “race and religion laws."

PARIS — At least 120 people are believed dead after a wave of coordinated terrorist attacks hit the French capital Paris, French prosecutors said early Saturday.

PARIS, Nov 14, 2015 (AFP) - A wave of coordinated attacks left more than 120 dead in scenes of carnage in Paris Friday, including scores massacred by attackers shouting "Allahu akbar" during a rock concert and others in a suicide bombing near the national stadium.

LONDON — The Pentagon said Friday it is "reasonably certain" that an Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" has been killed in a drone strike in Syria.