ALGIERS, Algeria – Algeria’s defense ministry says the country’s army has killed six armed Islamic militants in the Hendu area, 120 kilometers east of the capital Algiers. The ministry said in a communique Tuesday that the militants, who belonged to the Katibat Ennour group, were ambushed by an army patrol …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. confirms that Iran will take part in consultations on Syria that begin Monday in Geneva. The U.N. special envoy on Syria has said these are not a new round of negotiations but a series of individual meetings with “as many parties as possible” to get …

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin islands – A 24-year-old Massachusetts man is suspected of fatally stabbing his parents during a family vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands and then fleeing the three-island Caribbean territory, investigators said Tuesday. Acting Police Commissioner Delroy Richards said police officers found the bloody bodies of Kenneth …

And now the most fascinating two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Click here to watch it! Trespassing Times? Three days after several men on an inflatable fishing raft gained access to a supposedly secure runway area at New York’sJFK International Airport …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates’ national carrier Etihad Airways says one of its flights from Cairo to the capital, Abu Dhabi, has been diverted to a military air base in Dubai for “security reasons.” The Abu Dhabi-based carrier said passengers on Flight No. 650 disembarked after …

EL-ARISH, Egypt – Egyptian security officials say four soldiers died when a bomb they were trying to diffuse exploded in northern Sinai, while a separate explosion killed four civilians. The officials say two officers were among the dead in the explosion Wednesday near the city of Rafah, which borders the …

ATHENS, Greece – The Greek coast guard is searching for a boat believed to be carrying 45 migrants and to have run into trouble south of the small Ionian island of Antipaxoi, off the western coast of mainland Greece. Two coast guard boats, a helicopter and one more boat sailing …

Florida police said Wednesday that a 13-year-old boy shot and killed his 6-year-old brother and wounded his 16-year-old brother before turning the gun on himself after a heated argument over food. The shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. in the suburban community of Hudson located in Pasco County, just an …

SELMA, Ala. – The daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr. is in Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march. Bernice King says it’s important for her to be at the anniversary commemoration. She says the struggle for civil rights is unending. Saturday …

MUNCIE, Ind. – A restroom at a Wal-Mart in eastern Indiana has been closed indefinitely after an employee discovered a working meth lab inside. State police say a Wal-Mart employee alerted police after seeing a man he described as suspicious enter the restroom about 11:30 p.m. Thursday with a backpack …