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US calls for NKorea amnesty for sentenced American
Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. called Thursday for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state. Kenneth Bae, 44, a Washington state man described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator,...
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'Off the charts': 133k Somalia famine child deaths
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A decision by extremist Islamic militants to ban delivery of food aid and a "normalization of crisis" that numbed international donors to unfolding disaster made south-central Somalia the most dangerous place in the world to be a child in 2011. The first in-depth study...
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Benedict XVI returns to Vatican for first time
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home to the Vatican on Thursday for the first time since he resigned Feb. 28, beginning an unprecedented era for the Catholic Church of having a retired pontiff living alongside a reigning one. Pope Francis welcomed Benedict outside his new...
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Expert: Rhino population wiped out in Mozambique
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique's rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, the beasts again are on the brink of vanishing from the country by poachers seeking their horns for sale in Asia. A leading expert told The...
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Afghan policeman killed in Pakistan border clash
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan border policeman was killed in an exchange of fire with Pakistani troops along the country's contested eastern border, an Afghan security official said Thursday, in an incident that threatens to further inflame tensions between the neighboring countries....
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Unidentified victims of Bangladesh collapse buried
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
JURAIN, Bangladesh (AP) — Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers whose bodies were too battered or decomposed to be identified were buried in a mass funeral, a week after the eight-story building they worked in collapsed, killing more than 400 people and injuring thousands. Hundreds attended...
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Storming ministries, Libya's militias put pressure
Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Gunmen swooped in on trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and surrounded Libya's Justice Ministry on Tuesday, cutting off roads and forcing employees out of the building in the latest instance of powerful militiamen showing their muscle to press their demands on how...
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France: jihadist convert arrested in Mali
Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
PARIS (AP) — French troops in Mali have arrested a French citizen who converted to Islam, took on the jihadist cause and threatened his native country in a video last fall, the military spokesman said Tuesday. Col. Thierry Burkhard said Gilles Le Guen was arrested this week north of Timbuktu,...
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Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance
Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian jihadist, a security official told The Associated...
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Surviving hell in a Bangladesh factory collapse
Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she'd moved more than a few inches. In that time she'd had nothing to eat and just a few sips of water. The cries for help had long since...
