TEHRAN, Iran — Iran expanded a mass trial of opposition supporters Sunday with the addition of 25 defendants — including a Jewish teenager — in defiance of international condemnation, as France said Iran agreed to release a French woman held on spying charges from prison.

By Ambika Ahuja BANGKOK — Myanmar freed an ailing American whom it had sentenced to seven years of hard labor and handed him to an influential U.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has replaced all 700 of its customs inspectors with agents newly trained to detect contraband, from guns and drugs to TVs and other big-ticket appliances smuggled to avoid import duties.

Operations in Kosovo inspired Bacon to become refugee advocate

John Coburn served as head of diocese of Massachusetts

Plan would limit consumers’ share of medical expenses

Men wandered into U.S.-Iraqi joint mortar training

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas crushed an al-Qaida-inspired group in an hours-long standoff that came to a fiery end when a large explosion killed the radical Muslim group’s leader inside his Gaza home on Saturday.

Visiting lawmaker also meets with opposition leader

Pre-election attack near NATO office wounds almost 100