KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal sank into political turmoil Monday after lawmakers failed to agree on a new constitution, leaving the country with no legal government. The premier called new elections, but critics said he lacked the power to do so.Read more

MANAMA, Bahrain — A lawyer representing Bahraini hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja says the activist will end his strike Monday, 110 days after he began refusing food.Read more

NAIROBI, Kenya — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said.Read more

BEIJING — China's ruling Communist Party expelled an allegedly corrupt former railways minister on Monday, more than a year after his dismissal. The lengthy process underscores the party's challenges as it grapples with how to handle the tricky case of an even higher-profile official accused of grave violations of discipline.Read more

NAMPHO, North Korea — North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch.Read more

ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish court on Monday formally pressed charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency said.Read more

MOSCOW — Both sides in the Syria conflict "had a hand" in the deaths of more than 100 civilians in Houla, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, calling for a full investigation.Read more

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni military officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed five al-Qaida-linked militants in the country's south.Read more

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians.Read more

KABUL, Afghanistan — A helicopter crash killed two NATO service members in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, while a third died in an insurgent attack in the south, the U.S.-led coalition said.Read more

LONDON — A U.K. immigration judge is to decide whether radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada should be granted bail.Read more

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — U.S. servicemen, veterans and a Marine band are visiting their New Zealand counterparts over the coming weeks as part of an effort by the two countries to forge closer military ties, a quarter-century after a rift developed when New Zealand banned nuclear warships from its shores.Read more

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SYDNEY — Two masked bandits robbed the wrong Australian home hours after a teenager posted a photo on Facebook of a large pile of her grandmother's savings.Read more

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. Marine Sgt. William Stacey was killed earlier this year by a homemade bomb in southern Afghanistan, a tragedy for which he prepared by writing a letter to his family explaining why he was fighting that was to be read in the event of his death.Read more

DHAKA, Bangladesh — The chief of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party and one of his deputies were indicted Monday for alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 independence war against Pakistan.Read more

NEW DELHI — Police say 27 people were crushed to death and several more were injured when they were pinned between two minibuses involved in a multiple vehicle collision in western India.Read more

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Foreign Ministry has rejected the country's alleged role in plotting to topple the regime in Bahrain.Read more

JISH, Israel — Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East.Read more

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NEW DELHI — A Jet Airways plane has made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport after its left engine caught fire, but the Indian airline says no one was hurt.Read more

BALI, Indonesia — A British woman has been arrested on Indonesia's resort island of Bali for allegedly smuggling $2.5 million worth of cocaine in her luggage. If found guilty, she faces a maximum penalty of death by firing squad.Read more