HAVANA (AP) — Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, sparking a firestorm of criticism from Cuban-American politicians who called her an enemy of democracy and a shill for t…
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat, Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and locals scattered after loading close to 1,000 pounds of U.S.-bound cocaine. Now reverberations from the…
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YIDA, South Sudan (AP) — First they ate leaves. Then they ate roots, soaked for five days and boiled until they were just edible. Now many have eaten the planting seed – and their future with it….
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution, a security official said….
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution, a security official said….
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LONDON (AP) — Tanned and toned Olympic athletes in skimpy outfits will be serving and spiking outside the prime minister’s Downing Street home – but it’s lower-ranked civil servants who will have the best view of beach volleyball at the London Gam…
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An apparent clerical error prompted judges to postpone the long-awaited war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on Thursday, possibly for months….
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STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) — The winds blowing through Canada’s broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont’s hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country’s laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity….
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STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) — The winds blowing through Canada’s broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont’s hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country’s laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity….
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Twirling her leopard-print dress on stage in the `70s, proudly holding many of her music awards and performing in recent years on “American Idol”, Donna Summer was the ultimate disco queen…
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s governing party said Thursday it will demand the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation’s best-known artists that ridicules the party and the president with graphic and provocative imagery….
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that he is eager to attend the Olympic Games in London to support Iranian athletes but that Britain doesn’t want to host him….
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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Thursday found 14 policemen not guilty in the killing of protesters during last year’s popular uprising, the latest verdict in what activists claim to be a pattern of acquittals for police blamed for the deaths of…
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WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Police in the Canadian province of Ontario say they are holding a man who is accused of swallowing a $20,000 diamond as long as it takes for him to produce the evidence….
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s president announced Thursday that he will attend the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, accepting an invitation that was given after the country indicated it plans to end its six-month blockade of supplies meant for coali…
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Two Pakistani air force planes crashed in a residential area in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing all four pilots on board and injuring five people on the ground, police said….
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday urged Europe to sort out its currency crisis, calling on the 17-country eurozone “to make-up or it is looking at a potential break-up.”…
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a North Korean boat has hijacked 29 Chinese fishermen on three separate boats and demanded 1.2 million yuan ($190,000) for their release….
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people for drug trafficking, rejecting the defense argument that evidence was tampered with….
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece’s caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone….
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police arrested about 20 protesters on Wednesday night at a central Moscow square where demonstrators had moved after police uprooted them from a camp, the latest move in a broadening crackdown on the forces opposing Presiden…
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PRAGUE (AP) — A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, including possibly banning a hardline Greek party that did unusually well in recent electi…
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BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Clashes in a western Libyan city left six dead and at least 20 injured on Wednesday, a government spokesman said….
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian investigators on Wednesday were seeking a man between 17 and 20 years old they say could be the bomber who killed two bodyguards of a conservative former interior minister and injured 39 people in a busy commercia…
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SAO PAULO (AP) — A mighty tributary of the Amazon River has hit a record high level after weeks of heavy rains….
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad replaced almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet on Wednesday, a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split are stuck….
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CAIRO (AP) — A black smoke covered Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conclusion their gathering was useless. So over the weekend, they splashe…
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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges …
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police in Germany have temporarily cleared the Frankfurt Occupy tent camp next to the European Central Bank….
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The indictment against Ratko Mladic (AP) — who went on trial Wednesday at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands – holds the former Bosnian Serb army commander “individually criminally responsible for planning, instigating, ordering a…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli company has written off its entire 12.5 percent investment in the company that sold Egyptian natural gas to Israel before Egypt terminated the exports….
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn’t help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language….
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday….
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Ri…
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BEIJING (AP) — China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule….
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has ordered a four-member commission to investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus….
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The head of a major Greek business organization has lashed out at the country’s politicians for failing to form a coalition government and triggering new elections, accusing them of acting like “undertakers”…
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of an Indonesian volcano, killing 45 people. The recording of comments by the plane’s veteran pilots could help expla…
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Police say attackers fired shots and detonated grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing one person and injuring four….
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The negotiating stance from Iranian officials never varies: The Islamic Republic will not give up its capabilities to make nuclear fuel. But embedded in the messages are meanings that reach beyond Tehran’s talks with world powe…
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia will contribute $100 million annually for three years beginning in 2015 toward the $4 billion a year cost of running the Afghan National Security Forces after they take responsibility for their country’s securi…
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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The parks filled with statues were heralded as a celebration of India’s lowest caste. Authorities in Uttar Pradesh state are now investigating whether the billion-dollar project was an elaborate swindle….
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83….
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from revelations that its late founder was a pedophile, admitted Wednesday that it knew that its most famous priest had fathered a child years ago yet didn’t remove him from t…
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PARIS (AP) — Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France’s presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe’s debt crisis….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An appeals court has ruled, for the time being, against groups that finance electioneering ads and want to keep the identity of their donors secret….
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LONDON (AP) — One of Rupert Murdoch’s most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged Tuesday with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain’s media and political elite unco…
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group’s director said Tuesday…
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — European Union naval forces in attack helicopters conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia Tuesday. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back their operations….
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel’s spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow war ag…
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