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TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the last of 28 miners killed last week when an underground room of a giant Indonesian gold and copper mine collapsed, the operator of the U.S.-owned facility said. Thirty-eight workers were undergoing safety training inside the Big...

Updated: 18 hr ago

BEIJING (AP) — A mentally ill man attacked six primary school students and a woman with a cleaver in the latest of a string of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, authorities said Wednesday. All seven victims were in stable condition and a suspect was apprehended, according to a spokeswoman...

Updated: 18 hr ago

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor. Choe Ryong Hae, a top Workers' Party official and a vice marshal tasked with supervising...

Updated: 19 hr ago

BEIJING (AP) — Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers — and even sits on the toilet — in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power. The video accompanying the visual artist's single "Dumbass" —...

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military has jailed a young man for six months for refusing to serve because of his opposition to Israel's occupation of the West Bank, focusing attention on the longstanding conflict between the country's universal military service and divided political beliefs....

Updated: 22 hr ago

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech. The president was not exposed to...

Updated: 22 hr ago

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's government is looking into re-opening official talks with North Korea to resolve questions over the abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago, raising concerns among allies who fear Tokyo's focus on that issue might weaken efforts to reign in Pyongyang's nuclear weapons...

Updated: 22 hr ago

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian state TV says 6 policemen, border guard abducted in Sinai have been released.

Updated: 23 hr ago

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief. The new title for Kim Kyok Sik came in a dispatch Wednesday from the North's Korean Central News Agency detailing a delegation at Pyongyang's...

Updated: 23 hr ago

Students demanding wider free education clashed with police in Valparaiso, Chile on Tuesday as President Sebastian Pinera's delivered his final state of the nation speech to Congress. (May 21) SHOTLIST: AP Television -- AP Clients Only Valparaiso, Chile - May 21, 2013 1. Wide of burning...