February 29, 2016 The Latest: France seeks immediate Syria task force meeting The Latest on the conflict in Syria as a fragile cease-fire enters its third day (all times local): 1 p.m.
February 29, 2016 Bolivia's president asks to see love child he said was dead Bolivian President Evo Morales is asking to see a son he says he'd long thought dead.
February 29, 2016 Stolen pickup in Mexico had radioactive material aboard Mexican authorities have issued an alert after thieves stole a pickup truck with radioactive material aboard.
February 29, 2016 Iraq and US warn Mosul residents of possible dam collapse The Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy in Baghdad are warning residents along the Tigris river of a possible collapse of the Mosul Dam.
February 29, 2016 North Korea presents detained American to media North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he acknowledged and apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church who wanted it as a "trophy" — from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.
February 29, 2016 Mexico police rescue 87 women forced to work as prostitutes Prosecutors in Mexico City say police have rescued 87 women, including three minors, who were being forced to work as prostitutes at illegal bars in a densely populated, poor district of the capital.
February 28, 2016 10 dead, 26 hurt when bus crashes on mountain road in Mexico Authorities in northwestern Mexico say eight adults and two children were killed when a bus carrying a group of evangelical Christians went off a mountain road and crashed down about 45 meters (about 150 feet) into a ravine.
February 28, 2016 The Latest: Russia reports Turkish shelling of Syrian Kurds The Latest on the conflict in Syria as a fragile cease-fire enters its second day (all times local): 4 p.m.
February 28, 2016 Egypt to extradite Frenchman to Dominican Republic France says Egypt plans to extradite a French citizen to the Dominican Republic, where he is wanted for his alleged role in helping two French pilots convicted of cocaine trafficking escape by flying across the Atlantic Christophe Naudin, a criminologist and aviation expert, was arrested while travelling in Cairo, Egypt, earlier this month.
February 28, 2016 Opposition activists report airstrikes in northern Syria Opposition monitoring groups say warplanes have carried out air raids on two villages in northern Syria.