ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s government says the brutal heat wave that hit the port city of Karachi and the country’s southern province of Sind in June killed 1,250 people before subsiding. A government statement on the latest death toll from the heat wave was handed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during …

KINGMAN, Ariz. – The Arizona Corrections Department says six officers at a state prison complex received minor injuries while breaking up a fight between inmates. Department spokesman Andrew Wilder says the guards were hurt Wednesday evening while stopping a group of inmates who were chasing another prisoner at the privately …

NEWARK, N.J. – Prosecutors in the corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez have asked a judge to hold a hearing to determine whether some evidence should be withheld or restricted due to possible national security concerns. The Justice Department filed the notice Thursday with U.S. District Judge William Walls in …

PHOENIX – Things got noisy outside a west Phoenix Walmart after the company’s decision to remove Confederate flag merchandise attracted scores of protesters and counter-protesters. The Arizona Republic reports (http://bit.ly/1JQp3vC ) that Jon Ritzheimer organized the Sunday afternoon protest of Walmart’s decision. Ritzheimer is a former Marine who staged a …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia is now letting transgender people more easily change their gender on their driver’s licenses and wear makeup and other accessories while taking license photos. The switch follows a similar change to the license photo policy in South Carolina, where motorists can now dress how they …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – An Estonian official says a Russian military aircraft violated Estonian airspace over the Baltic Sea this week. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Belovas says a note to protest the incident was handed over Friday to a high-ranking Russian diplomat. Belovas says a Russian Antonov An-26 aircraft entered Estonian …

BAGHDAD – A series of bombings Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 81, police officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. However, the Islamic State militant group is often behind assaults on checkpoints and other locations across the capital as …

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean prosecutors have indicted dozens of people, including two former navy chiefs of staff, over their investigation into alleged corruption associated with numerous defense procurement projects. Senior prosecutor Kim Ki-dong said Wednesday that 63 people face charges of accepting bribes, fabricating official documents or leaking …

DENVER – Authorities say a 31-year-old woman died after she and three other hikers were struck by lightning near a popular trailhead west of Buena Vista. Derek Bos with the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office tells The Denver Post that emergency crews were called to the Denny Creek trailhead Friday afternoon. …

SAN FRANCISCO – David Goldberg, a popular Silicon Valley executive and husband of Facebook second-in-command and “Lean In” author Sheryl Sandberg, has died suddenly at age 47, his company and family members said Saturday. Goldberg was CEO of online survey questionnaire provider SurveyMonkey. He died Friday night, the company said …