March 24, 2017 Death toll in Guatemala shelter fire rises to 41 The death toll in a fire at a Guatemalan children's shelter has risen to 41 after another girl died of her injuries.
March 24, 2017 French defense chief: Battle for Syria's Raqqa within days France's defense minister says the battle by international forces to take back the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria will start in the coming days.
March 24, 2017 Le Pen urges Russia and France to unite in Moscow visit French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged Russia and France to unite, during a visit to Russia less than a month before French elections.
March 24, 2017 Hero monkeys helped lost man survive for days in Amazon rainforest A Chilean tourist survived for nine days while lost in a dense expanse of Bolivian rainforest — thanks to a troop of hero monkeys who “dropped him fruit and led him to shelter and water every day,” the man claimed.
March 24, 2017 Israel police arrest suspect in threats on US Jewish targets Israeli police say they have arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers in the U.S.
March 24, 2017 Colombia official says Venezuela raid may be tied to crisis A Colombian official said a four-day incursion by Venezuelan troops may have been linked to Colombia's call for elections in the troubled South American nation.
March 24, 2017 Arab autocrats: Exiled, killed or fighting for survival Egypt's ousted former President Hosni Mubarak was released Friday after six years in custody but he is not the only autocratic ruler in the Middle East that was caught up in Arab Spring revolts that swept across the region in 2011.
March 24, 2017 US coalition investigating reports of deadly Mosul airstrike The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group says it is investigating reports of an airstrike in a western Mosul neighborhood that allegedly left more than 100 civilians dead.
March 24, 2017 The Latest: New round of Syria peace talks starts in Geneva The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 2 p.m.