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Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
May 19, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics,... more »»
Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights
May 19, 2013 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate... more »»
Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
May 19, 2013 BAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest... more »»
Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
May 19, 2013 MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular... more »»
French president signs gay marriage into law
May 19, 2013 PARIS (AP) — France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending month... more »»
SKorea says NKorea fires 3 short-range missiles
May 19, 2013 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said. more »»
Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
May 19, 2013 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning. more »»
Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city
May 19, 2013 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continue... more »»
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
May 18, 2013 BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. more »»
Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums
May 18, 2013 PETARE, Venezuela (AP) — Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas. more »»
Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
May 18, 2013 MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a... more »»
Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island
May 18, 2013 NECKER ISLAND, British Virgin Islands (AP) — Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back... more »»
$1 million in jewelry stolen near Cannes film fest
May 18, 2013 PARIS (AP) — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary just hours after... more »»
Bombs kill 9 inside elite Afghan housing complex
May 18, 2013 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two bombs hidden in a motorcycle and a car exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday evening, killing at leas... more »»
Afghanistan: Bomb kills 15, including 6 Americans
May 17, 2013 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide car bombing tore through a U.. more »»
Syrian troops flush out rebels from prison
May 17, 2013 BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of political prisoners inside. more »»
Venezuelans scrambling to find scarce toilet paper
May 17, 2013 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government's promise to import 50 million rolls. more »»
Warplanes, troops in NE Nigeria; mobile phones cut
May 17, 2013 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Mobile phone service was cut off Thursday in areas of northeast Nigeria as jet fighters streaked through the sky and more soldiers were deployed to fight Islamic extremists... more »»
Puerto Rico faces lowest coffee production ever
May 17, 2013 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Coffee production in Puerto Rico has hit the lowest level ever in the island's history, leaving farmers and government officials worried about how to revive a once... more »»
Coetzee tells Spain: Drop pro-bullfighting law
May 17, 2013 LONDON (AP) — Nobel Literature laureate J.M. Coetzee has called on Spain to abandon plans to protect bullfighting, making a rare public appeal against what he called "an archaic form of entertainment. more »» |
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