KUALA LUMPUR / AP A North Korean envoy rejected a Malaysian autopsy finding that VX nerve agent killed Kim Jong Nam, saying on Thursday the man probably died of a heart attack because he suffered from heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Malaysia dismissed the claim. The death of Kim, the estranged half brother of North Korea’s ruler, …

  Bloomberg French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was stripped of her European Parliament immunity from prosecution because of a judicial investigation in France into the posting on her Twitter account of images of murders by IS. The European Union assembly voted by a show of hands on Thursday in Brussels to make the move against Len Pen, who leads …

  BEIRUT / AP Syrian government forces battling the IS group re-entered Palmyra on Thursday in their quest to again take the historic town they had lost to the militants in December, state media reported. The SANA news agency reported by early afternoon that government troops entered the town’s archaeological site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, around mid-day, then the …