KABUL / AP Approximately 300 United States Marines will be deployed to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces in the southern province of Helmand. A Resolute Support Mission spokesman, US Navy Capt. Bill Salvin in Afghanistan, said on Sunday that the deployment will take place in the spring. Salvin said in a statement that the marines are scheduled to ...

  JERUSALEM / AP A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the truck veered off course and rammed into the group. She said the attacker was shot dead. The attack ...

  BELGRADE, / AP Blizzards and dangerously low temperatures have left villages cut off and caused power outages as extremely cold weather continues for fourth day in most of Eastern Europe. Dozens of villages in the remote Pestar region of Serbia were sealed off Sunday by heavy snow, prompting the evacuation of some 100 people by emergency crews. Numerous villages ...

  BAGHDAD / AP A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car on Sunday in a bustling commercial area in the Iraqi capital, killing at least six civilians and wounding 10 others, an official said, the latest in a recent bout of violence claimed by the IS group. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan said a member of the security ...

  Bloomberg UK. Prime Minister Theresa May said she will unveil details of her plan to negotiate Britain’s departure from the European Union in the coming weeks after pressure has mounted for her to show the government isn’t “muddled” in its planning. May said no plan for Brexit was drawn up by her predecessor David Cameron and she needed to ...

  BEIJING / AP Officials in Beijing have announced a new environmental police squad to root out illegal burning in the city, the latest government response to the widespread public anger over China’s persistent problems with smog. Beijing’s acting mayor, Cai Qi, said at a meeting that the force would target open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and the burning of wood and ...

  HELSINKI / AP Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, is returning to court this week as the government appeals a ruling that his isolation in prison breaches the European Convention on Human Rights. The 37-year-old right-wing extremist, who admitted to the killings that Prime Minister Erna Solberg has ...

  When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of the US participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations. ...

  Global Logistic Properties Ltd., (GLP) a Singapore-traded landlord with a $40 billion warehouse portfolio in China, Japan, Brazil and the US, was crying out for some honest-to-goodness investor activism. A little belatedly, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is prodding it to release what could be billions of dollars of trapped shareholder value. It’s still not too late for GLP to ...

  Recently, the US intelligence community struck back. Not at Russia, which it accuses of hacking the Democratic National Committee to destabilize American democracy and swing the 2016 presidential race, but at President-elect Donald Trump, whose recent tweets have called into question not just the agencies’ findings but their competence. It’s entirely appropriate, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told ...