The U.S. Navy again has accused Iranian patrol boats of harassing an American warship in the Persian Gulf, this time with a Revolutionary Guard vessel nearly causing a collision with the USS Firebolt. Why does this keep happening?

China is shunning a security dialogue in Seoul amid an ongoing row over South Korea's decision to deploy a powerful U.S. missile defense system.

The official newspaper Global Times on Thursday quoted an unidentified Defense Ministry spokesman as saying China was not sending a delegation to this week's Seoul Defense Dialogue because of "reasons of work arrangement." It offered no other details.

Apple announced Wednesday its newest iPhones, the 7 and 7 plus, which are water and dust resistant.

Analysts say the new iPhones could help Apple recover modestly from a recent dip in sales. But with few expected dramatic changes from previous models, Apple watchers aren't expecting the kind of big spikes in consumer demand that the company saw two years ago, when it introduced larger screens.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the country has made many strides in the past year in dealing with the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in 2015, but that there is still much to do.

Speaking to Parliament on Wednesday, Merkel said that her government has sped up integration measures for migrants with good prospects of staying, increased school funding to help their educations, and worked with cities and states to find solutions to local problems.

A company controlled by Dubai's ruler has unveiled plans for a vast mixed-use development that will create thousands of new homes and hotel rooms.

Developer Dubai Holding said Sunday that work on the new "Jumeriah Central" district will begin next year along Sheikh Zayed Road, the city's main artery. It will sit across from the Mall of the Emirates, home to an indoor ski slope.

Turkey, extremism and the European Union's evolving global strategy are on the agenda for foreign ministers of the 28-nation bloc as they gather in Slovakia's capital for a two-day meeting.

Also up for discussion Friday are relations with Russia in the context of the Ukraine crisis that has led to EU-sanctions against Moscow.

President Barack Obama plunked down on a speck of coral reef in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on Thursday and gazed out at the turquoise waters of the marine monument he's widened to become the largest in the world.

Hundreds of albatrosses and rare birds fluttered in the skies halfway between Asia and North America as the president paid an unusual visit to Midway Atoll, one of the most remote areas of the ocean. Driving on a golf cart past dilapidated buildings left over from World War II, Obama said protecting the atoll and its surroundings was critical to ensuring delicate ecosystems survive the throes of global warming.

Intissar Ghozlan's two youngest boys haven't been in school since the family fled from Syria to Jordan two years ago. There's no space in local classrooms, and the boys, 12 and 14, can "barely write their names," having forgotten most of what they learned back home, she says.

More than 90,000 Syrian refugee children in Jordan weren't able to attend school last year, along with hundreds of thousands in neighboring refugee host countries, prompting warnings of a "lost generation" as a result of Syria's five-year-old civil war.

A Turkish-owned jet leased by the private Wings of Lebanon company has landed in hot water after a flight it made to Israel.

The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil's Senate means that a man of Lebanese origin who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds of a divided nation mired in recession.

Long known as an uncharismatic backroom wheeler-dealer, Michel Temer inherits a shrinking economy, a Zika virus outbreak that has ravaged poor northeastern states and political instability fed by a sprawling corruption probe that has tarred much of Brazil's political and business elite — himself included.