PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s prime minister has established a special commission to investigate the long-unsolved killings of three labor leaders. It was unclear why Prime Minister Hun Sen would revive the murder cases, which sparked international accusations of impunity for human rights abuses under his government — a concern …

BAMAKO, Mali – A local official says gunmen identifying as Islamic extremists have attacked and occupied a village in southern Mali near the border with Ivory Coast. Mamadou Tangara, the mayor of Sikasso, said the gunmen arrived in Fakola village on motorcycles early Sunday morning. A military police official, who …

BEIRUT – The Central Bank of Syria has put into circulation a new 1,000-pound banknote, one that doesn’t include the image of President Bashar Assad’s father and the country’s former president, Hafez Assad. Governor Adib Mayaleh’s statement, carried by the state news agency SANA, says the move is part of …

RUTLEDGE, Tenn. – An East Tennessee hardware store owner who put up a “No Gays Allowed” sign in response to the Supreme Court decision allowing same-sex marriage says he decided to take a “bold” stand for his beliefs. Jeff Amyx tells local media outlets that he put the sign up …

The man accused of killing a wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper, and setting their mansion ablaze, fired his defense counsel at a court hearing Thursday. Daron Dylon Wint, 34, who is facing charges of first-degree murder in the May slayings of Savvas, Amy and Philip Savopoulos and housekeeper Veralicia …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Defense Department says its troops were instructed to have “unrestricted” respect for human rights a year ago when soldiers allegedly killed at least 12 suspected drug gang members after they had surrendered. The statement issued late Friday was the army’s first response to the documents released …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says a suicide car bomber has targeted a NATO convoy in the capital, Kabul, wounding at least two people. The city’s police chief who is at the scene of the blast, Gen. Andul Rahman Rahimi, says one of the wounded was an Afghan civilian …

LONDON – Police in Scotland have launched an investigation after a couple was found in a crashed car three days after reports of a crash near a busy highway. Authorities say that a dead man and seriously injured woman were found off the roadway in the car on Wednesday near …

JERUSALEM – The families of two Israelis missing in Gaza are complaining over their treatment by government officials, saying their anguish is being ignored. Friday’s remarks came a day after Israeli officials’ stunning announcement that two men — Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent, and a Bedouin from Israel’s …

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwean writers confirm that one of the country’s most prominent authors has died in exile. The Zimbabwe Writers Association said Monday it had received “the sad news” that Chenjerai Hove died on Sunday in Norway at 59. Memory Chirere, secretary general of the writers’ organization, said Hove …