Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women's rights might be reversed with the withdrawal of most international troops next year, a rights group said Tuesday. New...

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security officials say police and military forces have clashed with armed tribesmen in a north Sinai village by the border with Israel, leaving one gunman dead. Egypt's government has built up security forces in northern Sinai as part of an effort to secure the release...

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

TOKYO (AP) — Hundreds of people living just outside Japan's Fukushima prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels. Nearly 700 residents from Hippo district in Miyagi prefecture, just northeast...

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

NEW DELHI (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to ask for more military aid during meetings with Indian leaders. Karzai met with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday and planned talks later with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Mukherjee's office said he told Karzai that...

Updated: 16 min ago

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving. Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council police traffic department heads. It singled out the niqab, a mask that...

Updated: 16 min ago

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military chief has issued a stern warning to Syrian leader Bashar Assad after an Israeli military jeep came under fire from Syrian forces early Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz told a conference on Tuesday that Israel will not allow the Golan Heights "to become a...

Updated: 16 min ago

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Updated: 31 min ago

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Fighting between the M23 rebels and the army continued for a second day Tuesday near Congo's eastern provincial capital of Goma, in clashes that have so far killed 20 people, all of them either soldiers or rebels, officials said. A Congolese military spokesman Col. Olivier...

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

BANGKOK (AP) — A massive power failure has affected more than 8 million people in Thailand's 14 southern provinces, including popular tourist areas such as Koh Samui and Phuket, in one of the country's biggest blackouts in recent memory. Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand official...

Updated: 1 hr ago

MEIKHTILA, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar court sentenced seven Muslims to prison Tuesday — one of them to a life term — in the killing of a Buddhist monk amid deadly sectarian violence that was overwhelmingly directed against minority Muslims but has not led to any criminal trials against...