International News

Mexico's biggest television network canceled a popular news show to protest the kidnapping of four reporters in what media advocates said Friday is an escalation of a campaign by drug gangs to control information.

The former chief of Chile's feared secret police who was convicted in the 1974 assassination of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's biggest enemy in exile says the CIA committed the crime.

One of the world's most powerful drug cartels took a major hit when soldiers killed a top kingpin, and his death will likely will mean more violence as factions fight for the cocaine and methamphetamine empire that he left behind.

U.S. aviation officials are downgrading Mexico's aviation safety rating, a move that could have economic consequences for some airlines.

An earthquake measuring 5.7 rattled the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Iraqi police say a roadside bomb north of Baghdad has killed five members of a family, including a 4-year-old girl.

Three more U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the U.S. death toll for July to at least 66 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.

A Ugandan court has charged three men with terrorism and murder related to July 11 twin blasts that killed 76 people in the capital.

An architect and a retired office worker are the first couple to wed under Argentina's historic law legalizing same-sex marriage.

President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put police officers' lives in danger.