NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s already chaotic government was thrown into more disarray Thursday after the rail minister was reprimanded by his own party after announcing a small fare hike. The fighting exposes rifts inside the Trinamool Congress party, a powerful regional group that controls the rail ministry and heads the government in the state […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A cargo plane loaded with bread crashed in a lagoon near Puerto Rico’s international airport on Thursday, killing both crew members, authorities said. The plane identified as a Convair 440 had just taken off when the pilot told air traffic control that the plane was having engine trouble, said […]

ISLAMABAD ( AP) — A Swiss couple held captive for nearly a year by the Taliban in Pakistan turned up at an army post close to the Afghan border on Thursday, claiming to have escaped from their captors, the Pakistani army said. They were swiftly flown to safety by the military. Taliban commanders said a […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The World Wildlife Fund says soldiers in Cameroon are losing the battle to save the last elephants in that nation’s remote Bouba N’Djida National Park from marauding horsemen believed to be invading from Sudan. The director of the organization’s Central Africa program, Natasha Kofoworola Quist, says the military arrived too late and […]

BRUSSELS ( AP) — The SWIFT global financial transaction service said Thursday that it was cutting ties with Iranian banks that are subject to European Union sanctions aimed at discouraging the country from developing nuclear weapons. The action effectively enforces EU sanctions because the world’s financial transactions are impossible without using SWIFT, and it will […]