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BEIJING – The top anti-graft body of China’s Communist Party says more than 100,000 officials have been reprimanded since late 2012 for violating policies mandating more austere working practices. The party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in its monthly report Monday that 5,340 officials were reprimanded in December 2014, …

BEIRUT – Syrian activists say government airstrikes have killed at least 11 people in rebel-held areas in the capital’s suburbs. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes on Wednesday in Harasta, a suburb northwest of Damascus, killed at least nine people, including two women, and wounded others. …

NEW DELHI – Officials say at least 20 people have been killed and dozens more injured in India in a powerful earthquake that struck neighboring Nepal. A government official in the eastern state of Bihar says at least 14 deaths were reported in seven districts that share a border with …

BEIRUT – A Syrian rebel spokesman and activists say clashes between opposition fighters and Islamists suspected of links to the Islamic State group have raged for days in the country’s south near the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The IS group is not known to have a significant presence in southern Syria. …

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has confirmed that North Korea detained a South Korean student of New York University, but says it’s still unclear whether the 21-year-old New Jersey resident attempted to enter the North illegally. An official from Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Sunday his department is still trying …

MEXICO CITY – An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of one of the rig’s legs. State oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said the Troll Solution rig was maneuvering …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they have captured a former police official implicated in the disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students last year. A government statement says Francisco Salgado Valladares had been hiding in the homes of relatives in the states of Guerrero and Morelos. It says investigators learned …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s parliament has assigned a bodyguard to protect the incoming justice minister after she received death threats and was depicted in a Nazi uniform on social media. Parliament speaker Yuli Edelstein said he was “shocked to see explicit threats” to Ayelet Shaked’s life. It was immediately decided that …

TOKYO – Honda Motor Co. is recalling an additional 4.89 million vehicles around the world for a new type of problem in Takata air bag inflators, for which Japanese rivals Toyota and Nissan have already carried out recalls. Honda also announced a global recall for 47,800 Acura and other model …

STOCKHOLM – Sweden says it has scrambled fighter jets to intercept two Russian military planes flying near the country’s airspace over the Baltic Sea. Military spokesman Jesper Tengroth says the Russian planes approached across international airspace near the southern Swedish island of Oland on Thursday morning. He did not specify …