SUNAN, North Korea (AP) ― It’s an unlikely sight: hundreds of ostriches, a bird native to sunny Africa, squatting and squabbling in the morning chill on a sprawling farm in North Korea. Even stranger: In winter, some wear quilted vests.Built on the heels of a 1990s famine, the ostrich farm was a bold, expensive investment that the state hoped would help feed its people and provide goods to export.

RABAT (AFP) ― A military transport plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in southern Morocco on Tuesday, killing all 80 people on board, hospital and military sources said.King Mohammed VI announced three days of national mourning following the crash, one of the deadliest in the country’s history.The army said 78 people were killed on the spot after the Hercules C-130 crashed on the edg

PRISTINA (AP) ― Kosovo’s Prime Minister has defended an order for his special police to take control of two contested border crossings with Serbia, saying it was “the right decision” despite condemnation from the European Union.Hashim Thaci said the operation in which a member of the police unit died and four others were slightly injured was a “concrete step in establishing the rule of law” in the

HANOI (AP) ― Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly appointed Truong Tan Sang as the communist country’s new president Monday amid challenges at home with the economy and abroad with China over disputed territory in the South China Sea.Sang, 62, a southerner who was a former mayor and party chief in Ho Chi Minh City, had most recently served as the de facto No. 2 in charge of the Communist Party, r