MEXICO CITY – Blind vendors angry about having their stalls removed from a downtown Mexico City subway station this week have clashed with police outside city hall. Authorities say five of the vendors suffered injuries in Thursday’s clash and were treated at the scene. The vendors are angry about a …

TOKYO – The Japanese government has nominated a former executive at Toyota Motor Corp., one of the biggest beneficiaries of the cheap Japanese yen resulting from drastic monetary easing, to fill a post on the central bank’s policymaking board. If lawmakers approve his appointment, Yukitoshi Funo, 68, a former head …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s congress approved on Thursday a reform that lets some foreign agents carry arms inside the country, a significant change in a nation that has historically said the practice would violate its sovereignty. Under the law, foreign customs and migration agents will be allowed to carry guns …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says at least 52 people have been killed in a massive landslide in a remote part of northeastern Badakhshan province. Shah Waliullah Adeeb, the provincial governor, says the landslide happened in Khawhan district, near the border with Tajikistan, early on Tuesday. He says the …

TIRANA, Albania – Albania has passed legislation that gives victims of the country’s former Communist regime access to the previously classified files of the hated Sigurimi secret police. The law that was approved Thursday with an 84-22 majority also stipulates that former Sigurimi members will be excluded from the civil …

UNITED NATIONS – South Sudan has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international human rights treaty meant to protect children’s rights to health, education and freedom from discrimination. The U.N. on Monday welcomed the move and said only the United States and Somalia have not ratified …

NEW YORK – People from New York City to Toronto will likely long remember what they were doing when the lights went out during Thursday’s massive power outage. Bewildered office workers got stuck in elevators or trekked down flight after flight of stairs; dazed crowds streamed into the streets; and …

To watch “The Talking Points Memo” in the Screening Room click here. Arnold Schwarzenegger (search)had to know that if he ran for governor, his sex life was going to be discussed in the press. And Thursday in The New York Post, Schwarzenegger’s statements to a sleazy sex magazine in 1977 …

BUCHAREST, Romania – A teenager has died after she was electrocuted while taking selfies atop a parked train in northeast Romania. Anna Ursu, 18, was hospitalized in the St. Spiridon Hospital in the city of Iasi on Friday with severe burns after she apparently touched a high-voltage wire above the …

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – A Nigerian official says Boko Haram extremists have seized back the northeastern border town Marte and are attacking villages, weeks after the military said it had contained the insurgents in a forest stronghold. Deputy Gov. Zannah Umar Mustapha of Borno state says hundreds of female suicide bombers …