February 27, 2016 Disputes delay video surveillance at tense Jerusalem shrine Video surveillance of Jerusalem's holiest site was meant to be a quick fix to lower tensions that have driven months of Israeli-Palestinian violence, but disputes over who controls the footage and what the cameras may or may not film are holding up the project.
February 27, 2016 China tries to reassure over economy at G20 meeting China's premier has tried to quell anxiety about his slowing economy as officials at a global finance meeting called for governments to speed up job-creating reforms to stimulate slackening growth.
February 27, 2016 In push ahead of truce, Syrian troops take villages from IS Syria's state media and an opposition monitoring group say government forces have captured several villages from Islamic State extremists in the northern province of Aleppo.
February 27, 2016 US, Nigerian navies: Ship rescue success for cooperation A U.S. commodore says the rescue of a hijacked oil tanker tracked through five countries by several navies, including from the U.S., is the first big success in international maritime cooperation in the pirate-ridden waters of the Gulf of Guinea.
February 27, 2016 The Latest: Moscow denies bombing Syrian civilians, rebels The Latest on the conflict in Syria and the provisional cease-fire proposed by the U.S. and Russia that is to go into effect at midnight (all times local): 12:40 p.m.
February 27, 2016 Peruvian president investigated in Brazil Petrobras probe A Brazilian police document obtained by The Associated Press shows that officials are looking at Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and former Argentine Transportation Minister Ricardo Raul Jaime in the probe of a kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petrobras.
February 27, 2016 Guatemala convicts army officer in sexual abuse case In a historic ruling, a Guatemalan court has convicted a former army officer and a former military commissioner for the sexual enslavement of women during the country's civil war.
February 26, 2016 Mexicans back ex-President Fox in vulgar spat with Trump Mexicans backed former President Vicente Fox in his verbal spat with Donald Trump on Friday, after Fox called the Republican front-runner "crazy" and a "false prophet" and Trump replied that he ought to be "ashamed of himself" for using a profanity.
February 26, 2016 Haitian economist nominated as PM under interim government The former governor of Haiti's central bank has been nominated to be the country's new prime minister in an interim government.
February 26, 2016 Canada judge rejects extradition to India over torture fears The mother and uncle of a Canadian woman who was the victim of an alleged "honor killing" have had their extradition order to India overturned by British Columbia's appeal court over concerns they will be tortured.
