PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Israel’s national soccer team arrived in Kosovo on Friday amid tight security measures at the airport ahead of a postponed European Championship qualifier.The team’s two buses were accompanied by several police vehicles and armed officers as it left the airport.PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATOR SETS ISRAELI FLAG ON FIRE…

A noted Belarusian dissident author said Friday that his father has been sentenced to two weeks in jail for reposting an article from an opposition website.BELARUS ARRESTS DISSIDENT AUTHOR’S FATHER ON ‘UNCLEAR GROUNDS’Alexander Filipenko was seized by police Thursday in a raid on his apartment and later “given 13 days…

Suspected Islamic extremists are holding about 30 men from the Dogon ethnic group hostage after ambushing several public transport buses in central Mali earlier this week, a community leader said Friday.Bocar Guindo said that armed men initially kidnapped about 40 people who had been traveling Tuesday between Koro and Bankass.…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Paul Mackenzie, the Kenyan preacher at the center of a doomsday cult in the country that led to the deaths of more than 400 people, was on Friday found guilty of operating a studio and distributing films without a license.The senior resident magistrate in the town…

Dignitaries bid farewell to the late Martti Ahtisaari at a ceremony Friday in Finland’s capital for the former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped facilitate peace deals in the countries of many of the mourners.Ahtisaari died Oct. 16 at the age of 86.More than 800 dignitaries and guests,…

A 5.0 magnitude earthquake struck the northwest Dominican Republic on Friday near the border with Haiti.The tremor occurred at a depth of 12 miles just west-northwest of Las Matas de Santa Cruz, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.Officials in the Dominican Republic said the quake was felt in the border…

TOKYO (AP) — What’s koi got to do with it? Souring relations between Asian rivals Japan and China now seem to be snagged on calm-inducing beauty in spas, museums and gardens. The slippery dispute between Asia’s two biggest economies adds to their spat over Japan’s release into the sea of…

Hungary has asked the European Union’s executive to open a legal procedure against Bulgaria over a tax it recently imposed on Russian natural gas passing through its territory, a government minister said on Friday.Bulgaria believes the tax, which it levied in October, will reduce the privileged position of Russia’s state-owned…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is condemning unrest in Montreal as “unacceptable” after police this week reported shots being fired at two Jewish schools and a fight between Israel and Palestinian supporters. A Montreal police spokesperson told the CBC that investigators received two 911 calls yesterday morning regarding shots being fired…

An 8-month-old infant in the United Kingdom has been given more time to live after an appeal suspended a judge’s mandate that she be removed from life support.Justice Robert Peel ruled Wednesday that Indi Gregory was to be removed from her life-supporting ventilator on Thursday against the parents’ wishes.Now, the…