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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police have detained four Westerners accused of posing naked at the country’s highest peak last month, just days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers on the mountain. Sabah state police chief Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman says police obtained a court order Wednesday to detain them for …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say federal police have destroyed a marijuana plantation containing more than 72 metric tons of plants. The National Security Commission says in a statement that the plantation covered a little over 3 acres (about 13,500 square meters). It was located in the town of Ixtlan …

At least 20 Afghan police officers were killed after militants ambushed checkpoints in the country’s volatile southern Helmand province, an official said Saturday. Mohammad Ismail Hotak, the head of the province’s joint coordination of police and military operations, said the ambushes late Friday night hit checkpoints in the Musa Qala …

In an eerie replay of a scandal that enveloped the United Nations Development Program, an internal audit by the U.N.’s World Food Program shows significant “lapses,” “anomalies,” and unexplained variations last year in the way the relief agency reported its financial and commodity management in North Korea. The holes in …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s troubled power company has been forced to sell bonds once again to obtain capital and avoid defaulting on a $415 million debt payment with a worsening economic crisis in the U.S. territory. The Electric Power Authority said Wednesday it paid $153 million in …

Australian rules football coach Phil Walsh was stabbed to death in his South Australia home early Friday morning, local authorities said. Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute around 2 a.m. local time in Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, and found Walsh and his wife suffering from …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A wealthy Emirati businessman says he is giving away a third of his assets, or more than a billion dollars, to educate Arab youth. Abdullah al-Ghurair’s donation aims to provide 4.2 billion dirhams ($1.14 billion) over 10 years to an eponymous foundation to educate underprivileged …

LA RONGE, Saskatchewan – Firefighters and soldiers worked to stamp out hundreds of wildfires raging across western Canada that are threatening thousands of people and triggering air quality warnings across the country and in the U.S. West and Midwest, authorities said. Steve Roberts, a Saskatchewan wildfire management official, said better …

BERLIN – A court in Austria has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 2 ½ years in prison for joining the Islamic State group. The Vienna regional court found Oliver N. guilty Wednesday of participating in a terror organization and incitement to terrorism. The boy, whose full name wasn’t released in …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run television says Turkish warplanes have struck Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria. TRT television says four jets took off from Diyarbakir air base in southeast Turkey and used missiles to hit the IS targets in the Syrian village of Havar. Havar is …