Second car bomb in a month kills 34 in Turkish capital, Ankara and other top stories.

• Second car bomb in a month kills 34 in Turkish capital, Ankara

  ANKARA A car bomb tore through a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in under a month.The blast, which could be heard several kilometers away, sent burning debris showering down over an area a few hundred meters (yards) from the Justice and Interior Ministries, a top courthouse, and the former office of the prime minister."These attacks, which threaten our ..

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• Palestinians: Israel denies Indonesian FM entry to West Bank

  

  By Associated Press March 13 at 3:20 PM RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Israel prevented the Indonesian foreign minister from entering the West Bank to meet with Palestinian officials. A Sunday statement says that Retno Marsudi was supposed to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Foreign Minister Riad Malki. The ministry said Malki traveled to neighboring Jordan to meet Marsudi instead. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon re..

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• Gunmen attack 3 Ivory Coast hotels; al Qaeda affiliate claims responsibility

  

  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement posted on a social media account tied to the group. Video from the scene -- about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the country's largest city, Abidjan -- appeared to show people fleeing from a hotel during the attack.A photo posted by Twitter user @lopezdobe showed ammunition magazines and grenades on the ground near the scene.French President Francois Hollande condemned what he called a "cowardly attack" and pled..

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• Voters deliver a message for Germany's Angela Merkel: No more migrants

  

  A candidate from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Saxony-Anhalt, Andre Poggenburg, speaks after Sunday’s state-level parliamentary elections. Tapping anti-migrant sentiment, the party made a strong showing. (Jens Buettner/European Pressphoto Agency) BERLIN – German voters on Sunday appeared to send a message to Chancellor Angela Merkel: Close the door on migrants. Her center-right Christian Democratic Party suffered universal setbacks in local elections — in a vote widely seen a..

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• Helicopters kill 17 as Yemen government moves against Aden militants

  

  ADEN Saudi-led helicopters attacked al Qaeda militants in Aden overnight in an effort to dislodge them from a stronghold in the southern port city, killing at least 18 people, medics and a security official said on Sunday.The assault took place as Saudi-backed forces supporting President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fought to widen their control of Taiz in the southwest of Yemen after breaking a siege there on Friday.Islamist militants from al Qaeda and Islamic State have exploited the conflict to e..

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• Big turnout for protests urging ouster of Brazil's president

  

  Big turnout for protests urging ouster of Brazil's president Mauricio Savarese and Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Updated 5:20 pm, Sunday, March 13, 2016 Demonstrators parade large inflatable dolls depicting Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in prison garb and current President Dilma Rousseff dressed as a thief, with a presidential sash that reads "Impeachment," in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, March 13, 2016. The corruption scandal at the state-run oil giant ..

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• Germanwings Crash Inquiry Urges Stricter Oversight of Pilots' Mental Health

  

  Photo Rescue workers at the site of the crash of Germanwings jetliner near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on March 26, 2015. Credit Laurent Cipriani/Associated Press LE BOURGET, France — French aviation officials on Sunday called for stricter international monitoring of the mental health of pilots and for guidelines that could require doctors to report pilots whose psychological condition might imperil public safety. The recommendations were part of a report by French acc..

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