ASSISI, Italy, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, visiting the Italian birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, called on the Catholic Church to do more to serve the poor.
GUATEMALA CITY, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Mexican authorities turned over an alleged drug baron wanted in the slayings of eight police officers in June.
BEIJING, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Chinese weather forecasters raised a red alert Saturday in anticipation of Typhoon Fitow, which was expected to hit the mainland Sunday night.
TEHRAN, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed support for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's participation in renewed talks on Iran's nuclear program.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A diplomatic impasse may result in the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2014, U.S. negotiators say.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A Turkish writer has been charged with insulting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by making a pun about his middle name, officials say.
CAIRO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Two Egyptian soldiers were killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked an armored personnel carrier Friday on a road east of Cairo, officials say.
BRADFORD, England, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A British mother was found guilty on manslaughter for starving her 4-year-old son to death and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
BEIJING, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- China prepared Friday for Typhoon Fitow, which is expected to batter the southeastern part of the country with strong winds.
BANGKOK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Massive flooding in Thailand has claimed the lives of 30 people as of Friday, and has affected as many as 3 million people, officials said.
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. embassy in Madagascar is warning against travel to certain places in the country after two suspected organ traffickers were tortured and killed.
BERLIN, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its rival, the Social Democrats, Friday began exploratory coalition talks, officials said.
TOKYO, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. was ordered to bring the massive amount of radioactive water being spewed by the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex under control.
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has cautioned that if Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons it will be "immortal, like North Korea."
CALAIS, France, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- French police Friday began to remove about 60 Syrian refugees who have blocked a walkway to a port building in Calais where ships depart for Britain.
