LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party agreed Tuesday to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a for two years and rattled the foundations of the . The breakthrough could see the shuttered Belfast government restored within days — with Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein holding the post of first minister for the first time.

After a marathon late-night meeting, Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson said the party’s executive had backed proposals to return to the government. He said agreements reached

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police said Tuesday they have arrested three Mexicans for alleged robbery on the resort island of Bali that left a tourist from Turkey badly wounded.

The arrests were made Saturday at a villa in Ungasan village of Badung district in Bali where the Mexican men had been staying since Dec. 7 as tourists, Bali Police spokesperson Jansen Avitus Panjaitan said.

The three men who were arrested and a fourth Mexican man broke into a villa near the popular tourist spot of Kuta last week after pointing their guns

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A group of insurgents armed with rockets, explosives and guns attacked security facilities in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing at least four members of the security forces and two civilians, officials and the military said. At least nine insurgents were also killed in the ensuing shootout.

The outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army quickly claimed responsibility for the rocket and gun attacks, saying that two of its fighters were killed. It was an apparent retaliation for on what it said were insurgent hideouts in Iran earlier in

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The Philippines and Vietnam signed an agreement Tuesday on preventing and managing incidents in the during Philippine President visit to Hanoi.

Several countries, including the Philippines and Vietnam, are locked in maritime disputes with China over its claims of sovereignty , one of the world’s most crucial waterways for shipping, and between Chinese and Philippine ships have intensified over the past year in the contested waters, fueling fears of a wider conflict.

The Philippines and Vietnam agreed Tuesday to increase coordination on maritime issues and

HONG KONG (AP) — Nicole Kidman’s latest project is set in Hong Kong, but people who live there are blocked from seeing it, prompting speculation about censorship in a city where civil liberties are .

The first two episodes of were released on Amazon Prime on Jan. 26. But when viewers in Hong Kong try to watch it, they instead get a message saying that “this video is currently unavailable to watch in your location.”

The city has hardened its controls over political speech after 20

BERLIN (AP) — Efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering around the world, in part because a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016,” according to a corruption index released Tuesday.

Transparency International, which compiles the annual Corruption Perceptions Index, found 23 countries at their worst level since the began almost three decades ago, including both high-ranking democracies and authoritarian states.

On the reported decline in justice, the group said that “the rise of authoritarianism in

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA’s retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off.

A massive crane delicately moved the orbiter, which is 122 feet (37 meters) long and has a 78-foot (24-meter) wingspan, into the partially built at the California Science Center in Exposition Park.

PARIS (AP) — France’s National Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution, the first key step in a legislative process that also requires a vote in the Senate.

The measure has been following a rollback of abortion rights .

The bill was voted Tuesday evening by the lower house of parliament by 493 votes for and 30 against.

“Tonight, the National Assembly and the government did not miss their rendez-vous with

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether his role in on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency.

The board’s unanimous ruling comes after its hearing officer, a retired judge and Republican, found that a “preponderance of the evidence” shows Trump is ineligible to run for president because he violated a constitutional ban on those who “engaged in insurrection