The amendments set to be voted on next week by Hungarian lawmakers may be incompatible with European legal principles.

Israeli police are investigating allegations that lawmakers from the centrist Labor Party were involved in vote-buying schemes in their primary elections.

Police in Italy have arrested 20 people and seized some 17 seaside resorts along the southern coast in a crackdown on organized crime clans suspected of laundering money through the tourist industry.

Kia's new concept car, the Provo, is designed to provoke comment. But to many across Britain and Ireland, the name sounds like a celebration of terrorism.

Venezuela's defense minister is pledging that the military will remain loyal to the constitution in the wake of President Hugo Chavez's death.

A former U.S. security guard has been sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to sell photos and other secret information to China's Ministry of State Security.

A conservation group claims that Google has something in common with illicit ivory traders in China and Thailand: It says the Internet search giant is helping to fuel a dramatic surge in ivory demand.

China's premier has promised to boost consumer spending and reduce reliance on trade but gave no sign in an annual economic report of what Beijing will do about big state companies that reformers warn could handicap future growth.

Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doesn't want war with the United States. He just wants President Barack Obama to call him.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the Obama administration is rewarding the Egyptian government with financial aid because of Cairo's promises of economic and political reforms.

Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has killed at least 28 people in a neighborhood dominated by Shiite Muslims in the southern city of Karachi.

The chief of the Syrian National Coalition has, for the first time, visited rebel-held areas near the embattled city of Aleppo in northern Syria.

The cardinal who until recently served as Britain's highest-ranking Catholic leader has admitted to unspecified sexual misbehavior and promised to play "no further part" in the public life of the church.

Cardinals from around the globe have descended on Rome for meetings ahead of the election for a successor to Benedict XVI.

Syrian army officials say troops have regained control of several villages along a strategic highway near the embattled northern city of Aleppo.

Secretary of State John Kerry says bickering Egyptian government and opposition leaders need to reach a political consensus to help their country emerge from an economic crisis.

Scotland's top legal officer says Scottish police and the FBI visited Libya this week as part of their investigation of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

Tens of thousands of U.S. college students are flooding into the Mexican city of Cancun, where officials have stepped up patrols of marines, soldiers and special tourist police in zones packed with hotels and bars.

Government authorities in Jamaica say they have uncovered a ring involved in trafficking Jamaican children to another Caribbean country.

The State Department is criticizing North Korea for, quote, "wining and dining" visiting ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman while its own people go hungry.

A presidential spokesman says that Chadian President Idriss Deby announced that Chadian troops fighting to dislodge an al-Qaida affiliate in northern Mali killed one of the group's leading commanders, Abou Zeid.

Taco Bell has become the latest restaurant chain to acknowledge that its beef has been adulterated with horse meat, yanking an unspecified number of products from its three British outlets and issuing a statement saying sorry to its patrons Friday. Meanwhile, in Iceland, a food official said his team had found a beef product which contained no meat at all.

Tens of thousands of Yemenis held mass rallies in the capital and across the country calling for the prosecution of ousted leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is under pressure to leave the country for allegedly hindering democratic transition.

It's a six-day bash that brings together hundreds of cigar sophisticates from around the world, and culminates Saturday night with a gala and auction of humidors worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Spanish police say they have captured a fan of Serbian soccer club Partizan convicted of killing a French fan.