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Tesla rear-ends bus in Germany, driver blames autopilot

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:12:26 GMT2016-09-29T15:12:26Z

BERLIN (AP) -- Police in northern Germany say that a Tesla driver is blaming the car's autopilot after crashing into the rear end of a bus on a highway....

Tumult to tranquility: Migrant family finds peace in Germany

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:56:09 GMT2016-09-29T10:56:09Z

ELZACH, Germany (AP) -- They fled Iraq just ahead of an Islamic State group onslaught in which thousands of their fellow Yazidis were enslaved or slaughtered. Months as refugees on the fringes of Turkish society, a nearly fatal trip across the Aegean and a long trek through the Balkans and Austria north to Germany came next....

Afghan unity deal expires, but gridlocked government remains

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 06:10:34 GMT2016-09-29T06:10:34Z

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's unity government is expected to remain in place despite the formal expiration on Thursday of the U.S.-brokered deal between two electoral rivals whose internal feuding has undermined efforts to battle the Taliban and stabilize the country....

Philippines' President Duterte to scrap war games with US

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:20:10 GMT2016-09-29T13:20:10Z

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said joint military exercises of Filipino and American troops next week will be the last such drills, although his foreign secretary quickly said the decision was not final....

Israelis pay respects to Peres, Clinton arrives in Israel

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:11:36 GMT2016-09-29T14:11:36Z

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton joined thousands of Israeli mourners Thursday who paid their respects to the late Shimon Peres outside Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, as the country somberly remembered the Nobel-winning politician who helped lead Israel during a remarkable seven-decade career....

Pope visits Georgia, Azerbaijan with peace message

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:32:51 GMT2016-09-29T12:32:51Z

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis is wrapping up a Caucasus pilgrimage that began in June in Armenia and ends this weekend with a visit to two other countries with tiny Catholic communities: the Orthodox Christian bastion of Georgia and the largely Shiite Muslim nation of Azerbaijan....

Afghan president, insurgent warlord sign peace agreement

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:17:12 GMT2016-09-29T14:17:12Z

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed a peace treaty with a notorious warlord on Thursday, pledging to lobby the U.S. and the United Nations to remove him and his party from terrorist blacklists....

Russia accuses US of siding with 'terrorists' in Syria

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:53:26 GMT2016-09-29T14:53:26Z

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian officials accused the U.S. on Thursday of siding with "terrorists" in Syria, in a sign of escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington amid the battle for Aleppo....

Study: Police using body cameras see huge drop in complaints

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:07:16 GMT2016-09-29T15:07:16Z

LONDON (AP) -- A Cambridge University study of British and U.S. police shows a 93 percent decrease in the number of complaints made against officers when they are using body cameras - pivotal findings that suggest the simple devices could reduce conflicts between police and the public....

India says it has struck militants across Kashmir frontier

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:05:03 GMT2016-09-29T15:05:03Z

NEW DELHI (AP) -- India said Thursday it carried out "surgical strikes" against militants across the highly militarized frontier that divides the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan, in an exchange that escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors....

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