FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique – French President Francois Hollande told Caribbean leaders on Saturday that a planned international green fund could help the vulnerable, tourism-dependent region mitigate the effects of climate change. Hollande headlined the Caribbean Climate Summit, which drew about 40 leaders or top officials from regional nations including the Bahamas, …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s defense minister says prosecutors are investigating possible ties between members of the military and a U.S.-based Muslim cleric. Ismet Yilmaz told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency Wednesday that following tips, military prosecutors have launched probes into more than a thousand personnel suspected of links to Fethullah Gulen’s …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Procter & Gamble Co. says it is closing a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico and laying off some 230 employees. A company statement Friday says the plant in the southern town of Cayey will close in the next nine to 12 months. Officials said the …

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – A Belfast bakery has been found guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a cake bearing the slogan “Support Gay Marriage.” In Tuesday’s ruling, Belfast Judge Isobel Brownlie called the bakery’s cancellation of the order “direct discrimination for which there can be no justification.” The judge …

It’s a given.Mickey Mouse is as American as theUSO (search). And for decades Walt Disney World resorts have been synonymous with family fun. But what you may not know about the popular vacation destinationis that, at the right price, it can be as posh as any place in the world. …

BOSTON – A survivor of the Boston Marathon attacks has written an indignant open letter to the admitted bomber. Rebekah Gregory lost a leg in the 2013 bombings and wrote the letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) on her Facebook page after she testified in his federal death penalty trial …

TRENTON, N.J. – Five drug raids in New Jersey have led to the seizure of the normal assortment of marijuana, ecstasy and guns and the removal of one not-so normal thing: a crocodile. The Mercer County prosecutor’s office says authorities found a small crocodile living in the basement of a …

LAGRANGE, Ky. – A Kentucky death row inmate involved in a lawsuit against the state over how executions are carried out has died. A statement from the Kentucky Department of Corrections says Thomas Clyde Bowling died Saturday due to “complications stemming from cancer.” He was 62. Bowling was convicted of …

The issue of dissent in this country, particularly from those from other countries, is a very hot topic now. Joe and Sandy C., e-mail: “What do you tell Native Americans (search)who say the same thing, leave? The only way anything ever gets better is through dissent. The love-it-or-leave-it is crap.” …

RIVERTON, Wyo. – One of the last of the Marlboro Men has died in Wyoming. Darrell Hugh Winfield was 85. He died Monday at his home in Riverton, Davis Funeral Home said. The Marlboro Man was a macho cowboy whose image in advertising from the 1950s to the late 1990s …