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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 …

BUJUMBURA, Burundi – An opposition politician in Burundi’s capital says he and many others have gone into hiding after the killing of an opposition leader. Leading opposition figure Agathon Rwasa said Sunday that he and other opposition politicians, journalists and civic activists are hiding in Bujumbura, the capital, because they …

BERLIN – Some 20,000 residents in the western German city of Cologne are being forced to evacuate their homes after authorities discovered a 200-kilogram (440-pound) bomb from World War II. Schools and kindergartens remained closed and dozens of ambulances were on the scene to evacuate residents of a nursing home. …

PARIS – A French court has acquitted a former ally of Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of swindling millions of euros from France’s richest woman, L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, by taking advantage of her weak mental state. But the court handed a famed photographer a three-year prison sentence and a 350,000 …

A terminally ill baby in the United Kingdom, who was the focus of a legal battle involving her parents, British health officials and the Italian government over treatment options, died Monday morning in hospice care. Christian Concern, a group supporting the family, said 8-month-old Indi Gregory died after her life …

FOX News correspondent Benjamin Hall recently sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a wide-ranging interview during his first visit to Ukraine since he was nearly killed while covering the war in March 2022. The two discussed whether Ukraine’s war against Russia has reached a stalemate and the Israel-Hamas …