RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi authorities have arrested 136 suspected militants over the past three months, accusing some of plotting to carry out suicide attacks inside the kingdom, the official news agency said Saturday. An interior ministry official said the suspects had been captured by security forces as part of …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A Palestinian rocket aimed at Israel veered off course and struck a home in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, moderately wounding a 2-year-old boy sleeping in his bedroom, hospital officials and residents said. The rocket fire further strained a cease-fire reached between Israel and …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Gunmen abducted 10 children after hijacking a school bus and another car Wednesday in brazen daylight assaults, according to local media reports. Haitian police spokesman Frantz Lerebours confirmed that several students were kidnapped, but said he did not know exactly how many had been taken. Police were …

CARACAS, Venezuela – The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Friday condemned a decision by President Hugo Chavez not to renew the broadcast license of an opposition-aligned TV station, saying it will be a major setback for the Venezuelan media. The Paris-based group called it a “serious attack on …

WASHINGTON – If Iraq were to plunge into all-out civil war the U.S. military would depend on Baghdad’s own security forces to deal with it “to the extent they are able to,” Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. Testifying with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in support of the …

LOS ANGELES – Star Jones Reynolds is recovering from a breast-lift procedure performed last week at a Santa Monica hospital, her publicist said Wednesday. “Star is recovering wonderfully,” publicist Brad Zeifman said in a statement to The Associated Press. The co-host of ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” underwent surgery …

JERUSALEM – Underground chambers and tunnels used during a Jewish revolt against the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago have been uncovered in northern Israel, archaeologists said Monday. The Jews laid in supplies and were preparing to hide from the Romans during their revolt in A.D. 66-70, the experts said. The …

AMSTERDAM – Dutch company Philips Electronics (PHG) will make house calls to repair almost 12,000 flat-panel plasma TV sets in the United States because they are liable to overheating, it said on Friday. Several incidents of overheating have been reported in the United States, but Philips said materials used in …

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rose Wednesday as gains in network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) and other tech shares helped drive the Nasdaq Composite index up more than 1 percent in a rebound from Tuesday’s sharp losses. Strong earnings from companies like software maker Autodesk Inc. and clothing …

NEW ORLEANS – Six months after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush got a close-up look Wednesday at the mountains of debris, the abandoned homes and the boarded-up businesses that are shocking reminders of the “pain and agony” New Orleans endures still. In the devastated Lower Ninth Ward, few residents were around …