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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia’s U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has charged another suspect with crimes against humanity, defying for the second time this month a warning from Prime Minister Hun Sen that adding more defendants could cause unrest. The tribunal announced Friday that the investigating judge filed charges against Aom …

KAMPALA, Uganda – Ugandan police say they are investigating whether the killing of a prosecutor in Kampala late Monday was carried out by Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. Patrick Onyango, a police spokesman in the Ugandan capital, said Tuesday that Joan Kagezi, who had been a prosecutor in the ongoing …

BEIRUT – Lebanese security officials say an explosion inside a coffee shop in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has killed at least two people and wounded others. The officials say that the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear Saturday night. They spoke on condition of anonymity as …