Associated Press: World
- UK zookeeper dies from tiger attack injuries
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 09:30 AMLONDON (AP) -- British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dozens march in Ukraine's first-ever gay rally
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 06:02 AMKIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- At least 50 gay rights activists have marched peacefully in the country's first gay rally despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chelsea tops AP poll after winning Euro title
Tuesday - 05/21/2013 - 02:17 PMMANCHESTER, England (AP) -- Chelsea surged to the top of the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll after winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League for the 11th straight season....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hezbollah: EU making big mistake
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 03:46 PMBEIRUT (AP) -- Hezbollah's deputy chief says the European Union would be making a "big mistake" to label the Lebanese Shiite militant group "terrorist."...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US: Czech slaying suspect killed relatives
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 11:00 AMALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An American man accused of killing his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic was arrested after fleeing to the United States....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Q&A: On Turkey's proposed alcohol restrictions
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 08:37 AMANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages, and how such a law could affect tourists and liquor companies in the mainly Muslim but secular country....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Berlusconi looms large in Rome mayor election
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 05:34 AMROME (AP) -- Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police: Suicidal jumper's fall kills SKorean girl
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 02:27 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 06:50 PMOGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AP PHOTOS: Egypt's languishing Islamic antiquities
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 01:47 PMCAIRO (AP) -- Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets....
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- 'Yugonostalgia' as Croatia prepares to join EU
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 07:12 AMKUMROVEC, Croatia (AP) -- Croatia may be on the doorstep of the European Union, but in this tiny village another union of nations was getting all the glory....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Female suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 05:38 AMMAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) -- Police in the southern Russian region of Dagestan say a female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK court: Lawmaker's wife's tweet was libelous
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 05:17 PMLONDON (AP) -- A tweet posted by the wife of Britain's parliamentary speaker about a politician wrongly linked to child sex abuse was libelous, the High Court ruled Friday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Barrick fined $16m for Pascua-Lama violations
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 12:42 PMSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious" violations of its environmental permit as well as a failure by the company to accurately describe what it had done wrong....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK fighter jet scrambled to divert civilian plane
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 09:37 AMLONDON (AP) -- A British fighter jet was launched to divert a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UN nuke agency's Iran probe driven by US-led intel
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 08:27 AMVIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international community....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 05:11 AMHANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Earthquake hits Russia's Far East
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 02:36 AMMOSCOW (AP) -- A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 02:55 PMLONDON (AP) -- Britain's military says the soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack was a popular drummer and machine gunner, a father, and a passionate fan of Manchester United....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Court cancels Ukraine's first gay pride rally
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 12:49 PMKIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine's first-ever gay pride demonstration, upholding a suit by city authorities, who argued the rally would disturb annual Kiev Day celebrations and could spark violence....
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- 2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 07:22 AMYANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 05:03 AMKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Artists and activists have handed out 10,000 pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital, bringing smiles to surprised Kabul residents a day after a major Taliban siege on an international compound in the city....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit
Saturday - 05/25/2013 - 02:59 AMADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Nigeria must respect human rights as it cracks down on the Islamist extremists. He's also pledging to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 12:55 PMGUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- The lawyer for ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo says he is being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering and embezzlement charges....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Zimbabwe activist: Prisoners denied AIDS drugs
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 10:13 AMHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS medications....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Attack casts spotlight on radical preachers
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 06:38 AMLONDON (AP) -- Two Muslim hardline preachers say that one of the suspects in the killing of a London soldier was interested in their teachings. And a British government official said one of the men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the terror group al-Shabab....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Obama's drone speech welcomed in Pakistan, Yemen
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 05:10 AMISLAMABAD (AP) -- President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones to kill Islamic militants was well-received in two countries most affected by the strikes - Pakistan and Yemen - but criticism of the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 climbers missing on world's 3rd highest mountain
Friday - 05/24/2013 - 01:41 AMKATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 03:32 PMHUSBY, Sweden (AP) -- Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
Thursday - 05/23/2013 - 12:02 PMHAVANA (AP) -- A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his import company, Tri-Star Caribbean, was shuttered....
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