Algeria's Culture Minister Meriem Merdaci resigned Saturday, following the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a packed concert by rapper Soolking in the capital, the president's office announced. It said Merdaci handed her resignation to interim president Abdelkader Bensalah...

Iran has test-fired a new missile, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, said Saturday, according to the Tasnim news agency. "Our country is always the arena for testing a variety of defense and strategic systems, and these are nonstop movements...

Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas and baton-charged protesters who retaliated with a barrage of stones, bottles and bamboo poles, as a standoff in a working-class district on Saturday descended into violence, breaking an uneasy peace that had lasted several days. Thousands of...

North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday in the seventh weapons launch in a month, South Korea's military said. The North had been expected to halt weapons tests because the 10-day U.S.-South Korean drills, which it views as an invasion...