March 8, 2016 Israel: Palestinian woman tries to stab officers, is killed Israeli police say a Palestinian woman who tried to stab Israeli security forces was shot and killed by officers in Jerusalem's Old City.
March 8, 2016 The Latest: Nod to India's female lawmakers shows rarity The Latest on International Women's Day (all times local): 5 p.m.
March 8, 2016 Brazil's Marcelo Odebrecht sentenced to more than 19 years A federal judge has sentenced the former president of Brazil's largest construction company to more than 19 years in prison for involvement in a corruption scheme at the state-run oil company Petrobras.
March 8, 2016 Testimony in Guatemalan fraud case implicates leaders The man who allegedly handled finances for a far-reaching corruption scheme in Guatemala has testified that the then-vice president's right-hand man told him that bribes were going to his boss and the president.
March 8, 2016 Socialist dream under threat in Venezuela's 'Chavez City' Drive down a road lined with trash fires, past an improvised slum where sewage runs between shacks and through an army checkpoint, and you'll reach a startling destination: a gleaming, self-contained community about as clean and orderly as a U.S. suburb.
March 8, 2016 Talk of beheading strike option fans Koreas tension Massive joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises are a spring ritual on the Korean Peninsula guaranteed to draw a lot of threat-laced venom from Pyongyang.
March 8, 2016 After decades in Damascus, American says he'll never leave Thomas Webber stoops to check his car for bombs every morning before heading out, but the 71-year-old American has no plans to leave Damascus, a city he has called home for more than four decades.
March 8, 2016 Ukrainian protesters demand that Russia release Savchenko A few hundred people have marched from Ukraine's Defense Ministry to the Russian Embassy in Kiev to demand that Russia release Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko.
March 8, 2016 Netanyahu's office refutes US surprise at cancelled trip The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refuting a White House claim that Netanyahu "surprised" the Obama administration by cancelling his planned visit to Washington.
March 8, 2016 Mexican archdiocese claims Pope was misinformed Mexico's main archdiocese has taken the unusual step of publicly saying Pope Francis had been badly advised when directed harsh words to local bishops during his visit in mid-February.
