Interpol has 40 million reports of lost or stolen passports, the vast majority from 38 countries whose citizens don't need visas to visit the United States, such as Canada and European nations.

PARIS — Interpol knew about stolen passports that two passengers used to board an ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight bound for China, but no authorities checked the police agency’s vast ...

Interpol says some of its 190 member countries have cited a lack of police resources, privacy concerns or political hostilities for their failure to check passports against the global data.

Interpol knew about stolen passports that two passengers used to board an ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight bound for China, but no country checked the police agency's vast database on stolen ...

Interpol identified the men using the stolen passports as Pouri Nourmohammadi, 18, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29, both Iranians. Malaysian police believe Nourmohammadi was trying to emigrate ...

Interpol, the international police cooperative, maintains a massive database at its Lyon, France headquarters with 40 million records of lost and stolen travel documents such as passports ...

Interpol earlier said two Iranian men, Pouri Nourmohammadi, 18, and Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza, 29, used stolen Austrian and Italian passports to board Flight 370. The men entered Malaysia using ...

Meanwhile, Interpol confirmed that two stolen passports—one Italian, one Austrian—used by passengers on the plane had been entered into the agency’s database following their thefts in ...