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PARIS – French President Francois Hollande expressed his solidarity with victims’ families Tuesday after a police officer and three other people were killed in a shootout at a Gypsy camp in northern France. French police were called to a camp in the Somme department earlier in the day, where they …

BOGOTA, Colombia – The U.S. Treasury Department is levying financial sanctions on four Colombians accused of laundering money for leftist rebels through a speciality grocer and money transfer shop in Switzerland. The four individuals targeted Thursday as foreign narcotics kingpins ran a Zurich-based bodega called the Colombiano Latin Shop that …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says at least eight police officers have been killed in separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. Col. Asadullah Ensafi, the deputy police chief in Ghazni province, said Saturday another 15 police officers were wounded in the attacks on police checkpoints in the …