JERUSALEM (AP) — Devastated mourners grasped at dirt atop fresh graves and screamed in agony Friday as they buried the five Israeli victims of a bombing in Bulgaria — an attack that Israel has blamed on Iran and its proxy group Hezbollah. Two days after the deadly blast in a popular vacation spot, investigators in [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China again vetoed a Western-backed U.N. resolution Thursday aimed at pressuring President Bashar Assad’s government to end the escalating civil war in Syria, sparking dire warnings of even greater bloodshed and spillover to the wider region. The 11-2 vote, with two abstentions from South Africa and Pakistan, was the [...]
BURGAS, Bulgaria (AP) — He looked like any other impatient tourist checking the big board at airport arrivals: a lanky, long-haired man in a baseball cap with his hands in the pockets of his plaid Bermuda shorts, a bulky backpack hanging from his shoulders. Minutes later, authorities say, the man, filmed by security cameras at [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has passed a key European financial transparency test, but received poor grades for the effectiveness of its new financial watchdog agency and the ability of its bank to track suspicious transactions. The Council of Europe report released Wednesday marked a milestone in the Holy See’s efforts to shed its [...]
BEIRUT (AP) — An authority with direct knowledge of the situation says Hassan Turkmani, a former Syrian defense minister, has died in a bombing in Damascus. Turkmani is the third Syrian regime official killed in Wednesday’s attack. The authority asked that his name and profession not be used for fear of reprisals. The blast struck [...]
LONDON (AP) — The chief executive of the G4S security group acknowledged Tuesday that his company’s failure to live up to its Olympic obligations has turned into a nationwide humiliation. Quizzed by a panel of angry British lawmakers over his company’s failure to recruit enough people to guard the games, Nick Buckles gave a groveling [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s government is urging all its citizens living in Syria to return home immediately to escape being hurt or killed in the country’s escalating civil war. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Baghdad called Tuesday on the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the opposition forces seeking to overthrow him to resist [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: teach Puerto Ricans to speak English as well as they do Spanish. Gov. Luis Fortuno, who has been mentioned as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate, has proposed an [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against two sons of Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said the Treasury Department designated Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Ovidio Guzman Lopez under Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them [...]
BEIRUT (AP) — A fragile cease-fire brokered by the U.N. took hold in Syria on Thursday with regime forces apparently halting widespread attacks on the opposition, but there were reports of scattered violence and the government defied demands by international envoy Kofi Annan to pull troops back to barracks. A civilian and a Syrian soldier [...]
British police made six arrests early Tuesday in the British media’s phone hacking scandal, including Rebekah Brooks, the former top executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, The Associated Press has learned.
Two brothers of Afghan President Hamid Karzai were leaving a village mosque where they attended a memorial service for 16 villagers killed by a U.S. soldier when the Taliban insurgents opened fire.
BEIJING (AP) — The presidents of South Korea and China agreed Monday to work together to achieve peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, in their first summit since Kim Jong Il’s death opened the chance for major changes in North Korea. While North Korea is often a topic when Chinese and South Korean [...]
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian Red Cross says five people were killed and at least six others wounded in an attack on a mosque and a Quranic school in the country’s southwest amid a nationwide strike over fuel prices. Spokesman Nwakpa O. Nwakpa said the attack happened Tuesday afternoon in Benin City in Edo [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban announced Tuesday that they will open an office in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar to hold talks with the United States, an unprecedented step toward a peace process that might lead to a winding down of the 10-year war in Afghanistan. Although U.S. and Taliban representatives have met [...]
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Europe won some further modest respite from its debt crisis Wednesday as Germany and Portugal became the latest countries to borrow with relative ease ahead of a hazard-filled few weeks for the 17-nation eurozone. But news that a major Italian bank had to offer an unexpectedly large discount to raise new [...]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities should annul the results of the parliamentary vote and hold a new one, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urged Wednesday as popular indignation grew over widespread allegations of election fraud. The call for an entirely new vote by the last president of the Soviet Union was a remarkable development for [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday it has broken up a plot to smuggle a son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, al-Saadi Gadhafi, and his family into Mexico under false names and with false documents. The elaborate plan, which allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, also involved opening bank [...]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Tuesday temporarily recalled some troops from border posts meant to coordinate activity with international forces in Afghanistan as relations have been pushed to an all-time low by NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The troops were pulled back for “consultation” on how to improve coordination with NATO and should [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is probing whether Apple helped five major publishing houses illegally raise prices for e-books when it launched its iPad tablet and iBookstore in 2010. The probe, announced Tuesday by the European Commission, offers a glimpse into the fierce fight for shares of the growing e-book market, especially [...]
