COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – An opposition lawmaker in the Maldives said her party will press on with street protests until the government frees a former president and current opposition leader. Mohamed Nasheed, the Indian Ocean nation’s first democratically elected president, was arrested a week ago for allegedly ordering the military …

KUWAIT CITY – A Kuwaiti lawyer says the country’s supreme court has upheld a verdict against an online journalist sentenced to two years in prison for Twitter posts deemed insulting to the Gulf nation’s ruler. Ayyad al-Harbi was arrested in 2012 as part of a social media crackdown throughout the …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Authorities in Puerto Rico have charged a 28-year-old man in the U.S. territory’s first federal sextortion case involving adults. Mario Lebron Caceres is accused of threatening to post sexually explicit images of a 33-year-old woman on a pornographic website and of sharing them with her …

BERLIN – Germanwings says a plane headed for Milan was evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport after German police received a bomb threat against the flight. The airline said the threat against flight 826 to Milan’s Malpensa airport was received by federal police Sunday evening. The tower in Cologne alerted the pilot …

MEXICO CITY – Migrant rights activists said Tuesday that about 200 Central American migrants hope to re-start a journey to hold a “Viacrucis” protest in Mexico City, after highway immigration checkpoints stymied their trip last week. For several years, migrants have carried wooden crosses in protest marches in Mexico around …

MEXICO CITY – Gunfights and blockades of burning vehicles have been reported in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas. The U.S. consulate in Matamoros said in message Friday that it had “learned of several firefights and roadblocks throughout the city of Reynosa,” and it recommended that …

UNITED NATIONS – A new United Nations report says the Islamic State group has more than 225,000 Syrians under siege in a single city. The latest monthly report by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the last time the U.N. was able to reach the besieged western neighborhoods of Deir ez Zor …

IQALUIT, Canada – Secretary of State John Kerry is backing Saudi Arabian airstrikes against Houthi rebels as long as the rebels persist in attacking Yemeni government forces. Kerry is crediting the Saudis with making an important shift from a full-scale air campaign to hitting targets only when militants present a …

ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s outspoken finance minister says he and his wife came under attack by anarchists while dining in a central Athens restaurant. Yanis Varoufakis said Wednesday he and his wife were in the Exarhia district, a neighborhood popular with extreme leftists and anarchists, Tuesday night when a group …

MEXICO CITY – The legislature in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has condemned the killing of a local mayoral candidate. A statement late Friday from Guerrero’s congress reported the killing of Ulises Fabian Quiroz, who was a candidate for mayor of Chilapa for the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party-Green party …