Haitian and U.S. authorities have arrested the son of the former president of Honduras and sent him to New York where he faces drug trafficking charges, the government of Honduras said.

Fabio Lobo Lobo, son of Porfirio Lobo, was arrested on May 20 in a Haitian operation alongside the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

A U.S. city mayor called for calm Thursday after police shot and injured two African American men allegedly being chased for shoplifting.

The two suspects allegedly assaulted employees after trying to steal beer at a Safeway supermarket in the early hours in Olympia, the capital of northwestern Washington state. 

The United States plotted to find Osama bin Laden by concealing tracking devices in medical supplies, possibly through Red Cross hospitals, a report said Thursday, citing documents leaked by former security contractor Edward Snowden.

The Intercept news site quoted from a National Security Agency slide presentation dated June 2010 which discussed the possibility of going from "Pharma to Target" by penetrating "the non-electronic moat" that protected bin Laden from surveillance in his Pakistan hideout.

U.S. air strikes against Islamist extremists in Syria killed two children by mistake, officials said Thursday, marking the first time the American military acknowledged inflicting civilian casualties in the war.

"We regret the unintentional loss of lives," Lieutenant General James Terry, head of the U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State group, said in a statement, citing the results of an investigation.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to mend fences with Israel's Arabs at a meeting Thursday with the head of the Arab parties in parliament, Ayman Odeh, after polarizing election-day remarks.

Netanyahu had caused an uproar when during the March 17 vote he warned that Arabs were being mobilized "in droves" to the ballot boxes, putting his rightwing rule at risk.

On a windy hilltop overlooking the mountainous Syrian border, a fighter from Hizbullah says the battle against militants in the area is among the toughest the group has ever faced.

The powerful movement, a key ally of the government in Damascus, has fought across Syria in the years since an uprising began in 2011.

A 78-year-old Canadian man was found dead in a western Mexico lake and two of his elderly countrymen remain missing after they disappeared during a boat trip, officials said Wednesday.

A civil protection official in Chapala, a resort town popular with U.S. and Canadian retirees in Jalisco state, said the three men had left in a sailboat on Monday.

A man who landed his mini helicopter on the U.S. Capitol lawn was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury and faces six charges relating to the security scare. 

Douglas Hughes, 61, a postal worker from Ruskin, Florida was arrested on April 15 after he landed his gyropcopter on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, the seat of Congress in the heart of Washington. 

The United States said Wednesday it plans to sell thousands of bombs and missiles to Israel as well as 10 Seahawk helicopters to Saudi Arabia, in deals worth about $1.9 billion each, officials said Wednesday.

The U.S. State Department informed Congress of the proposed arms sales to two allies in the Middle East that are both wary of Washington's negotiations with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.

China said Wednesday it was "severely concerned" over the arrest of one of its citizens in the U.S., one of six Chinese nationals charged with economic espionage.

U.S. prosecutors accused the Chinese suspects, who include three university professors, with a years-long scheme to steal mobile phone technology trade secrets for Beijing's benefit.