MEXICO CITY – President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday proposed a reform that would allow some foreign agents to carry arms inside Mexico, a significant change in a country that has historically said the practice would violate its sovereignty. The bill, sent to Mexico’s Senate, would allow foreign customs and …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission says it has received a complaint from inmates at a maximum-security prison complaining of poor food and bad conditions. A commission employee who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Thursday the complaint was received the previous day, but the …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says the police chief of a volatile district in the country’s south has been killed by a roadside bomb. Helmand provincial police chief Nabi Jan Malakhail, says the explosion happened early Thursday, as Hikmatullah Akmal was heading toward a Taliban attack on a checkpoint …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency says gunmen have killed eight Iranian border guards in the country’s volatile southeast, near the border with Pakistan. The report says the attack took place on Monday in the restive Sistan-Baluchistan province. Fars says four of the killed soldiers were conscripts. The …

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Aviation authorities are questioning a man they suspect stowed away in the wheel well of a jetliner for a free flight in Indonesia, officials said Thursday. Mario Stevan Ambarita, 21, survived a nearly two-hour flight at high altitude from Pekanbaru, Riau’s provincial capital, to the national capital, …

DONETSK, Ukraine – Fighting has picked up in eastern Ukraine, after more than a month of relative calm, as diplomats gathered in Berlin Monday to discuss the Ukraine crisis. The military conflict between Russia-backed rebels and government forces has killed more than 6,000 but has largely subsided since the cease-fire …

EL-ARISH, Egypt – An Egyptian army official says an armored military vehicle struck a roadside bomb during a raid on militant hideouts in northern Sinai Peninsula and the explosion killed one officer and wounded another. The official says Thursday’s bombing took place in the town of Sheik Zweid. No one …

CAIRO – An Egyptian criminal court on Monday sentenced 22 people to death after convicting them of storming a police station outside Cairo and killing an officer on July 3, 2013 — the day the military overthrew an elected but divisive Islamist president. The ruling was the latest action against …

BEIRUT – Several hard-line rebel groups have launched a new offensive in northwestern Syria, less than a month after seizing control of the provincial capital. The conservative Islamic opposition factions, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, are coordinating the multi-pronged campaign whose primary target appears to be Jisr al-Shughour in Idlib …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The main state oil company in the United Arab Emirates says Japan’s Inpex has won a stake in the development of major oil fields in the energy-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said Monday’s deal gives Inpex’s JODCO Onshore Limited …