JERUSALEM – Exit polls from Israeli elections showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and its nationalist and religious allies deadlocked with the center-left Zionist Union, an Arab alliance and more dovish parties. The upstart centrist Kulanu party has emerged as the kingmaker in the elections, and could tip the …

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican navy has detained 15 Cuban men found aboard a small, home-made boat just off the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The navy said Thursday that the Cubans’ vessel was first sighted by a fishing boat. Navy personnel removed the Cubans from the craft Wednesday and …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained dozens of people as part of an investigation into alleged fraud and cheating in a national exam in 2010 for prospective civil servants. The Anadolu Agency says more than 60 suspects were detained in Ankara and 13 other cities …

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s military claims it has destroyed the headquarters of Boko Haram in Gwoza, a town in northeast Nigeria. It was not possible to verify Friday’s victory that comes the day before critical presidential elections. The official Twitter account of the Nigerian Defense Headquarters announced “FLASH: Troops this …

HAGATNA, Guam – A typhoon killed at least five people on a western Pacific Ocean island ahead of strong winds that are expected to bear down on a neighboring island in Micronesia on Wednesday, officials said. Micronesia public information officer Marz Akapito reported the preliminary death toll in a radio …

PARIS – French Jews are paying homage to victims of a hostage-taking at a kosher market and wondering what their future holds, after attacks that intensified concerns about rising anti-Semitism. Jewish community leader Roger Cukierman, urged French Jews to stay instead of joining a wave of emigration to Israel, saying …

And now the most engrossing two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! French Fury A letter signed byFrench Ambassador Jean-David Levitte (search)is on its way to the White House and Congress accusing some in the Bush …

CAIRO – Libyan security officials say a bomb thrown near the Algerian Embassy in the country’s capital has wounded three security guards. The officials say the bomb came from a passing car and struck the guard’s station and damaged a diplomatic vehicle Saturday. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council is holding an emergency meeting on the chaotic situation in Yemen. Violence has gripped Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since Monday and has been described as a coup. Yemeni authorities say Shiite Houthi rebels are shelling the presidential residence and have raided the presidential palace. …

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is painting a worsening picture of the war in Syria, citing indiscriminate government bombing and opposition shelling, high civilian casualties and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. In his monthly report to the U.N. Security Council obtained Friday by The Associated Press, the Ban said the …