From Newswire

• Japan PM woes persist before vote, party in disarray
• Chinese spy probe widens; Australia wants haste
• Helicopter crashes in Afghanistan; casualties
• Iran executes Sunni rebels: report
• Turkish PM told to take back Xinjiang genocide remark
• Pakistan's displaced head home, blast rocks village
• U.S. military boss urges Iraq to settle differences
• Suspected drug hitmen dump 12 bodies on Mexico road
• Ousted Honduran president issues talks ultimatum
• U.S. worried about American scholar detained in Iran