World Nov 29

French riot police descended on Place de la République in central Paris on Sunday, firing tear gas on climate change activists who rallied despite a government ban on an organized march.

World Nov 28

Continuing his first-ever African tour as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis delivered mass before thousands of people at Uganda's most famous Catholic shrine.

Nation Nov 27

According to the Associated Press, three police officers were injured in a shooting Friday near the Colorado Springs branch of Planned Parenthood. Colorado Springs Police spokeswoman Lt. Catherine Buckley says the situation is still active.

World Nov 24

Turkey shot down a Russian war plane Tuesday, saying it violated Turkish airspace. But Moscow officials said the jet fighter was flying over Syria at the time.

World Nov 23

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who has been held in an Iranian prison for 16 months, was sentenced for an unspecified prison term on Sunday.

World Nov 20

Gunmen stormed a Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako Friday morning, taking more than 100 hostages. At least 20 people were reported dead by the end of the day-long siege, including one American.

World Nov 18

Updated: French authorities confirm that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian suspect behind the Paris attacks, died in a police raid Wednesday.

World Nov 18

Overnight, a suicide bombing in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola killed 32 people and wounded at least 80 others.

World Nov 17

Russia’s security service said Tuesday for the first time that last month’s crash of a passenger airliner in Egypt was caused by a homemade explosive device.

World Nov 15

France launched a “massive” air strike on an Islamic State stronghold in Syria on Sunday, the first military response since the attacks in Paris on Friday that killed as many as 129 people.