UN chief visits Goma, Congo
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
GOMA, Congo — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed.
Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
CANNES, France — Ladies? Don't make him laugh.
2 brown bears rescued from captivity in Kosovo
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
MRAMOR, Kosovo — Two brown bears have been released into a special sanctuary after being held in a 20-square-meter cage almost their entire lives to amuse visitors at a Kosovo restaurant.
Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
HAVANA — 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.
Markets roiled by Nikkei's 7.3 percent slide
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
LONDON — Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.
EU performs abrupt U-turn on olive oil regulation
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
BRUSSELS — The EU has something important to say about its proposal to regulate olive oil on restaurant tables: Uh, never mind.
Dutch arrest meat works owner in horse meat probe
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested the director of a meat-processing and wholesale company whose business is at the center of an investigation into undeclared mixing of horse meat with beef.
At last, we get Tolkien’s take on King Arthur
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
Unpublished until now, the poem “The Fall of Arthur” was Tolkien’s take on the legendary leader and aftermath of the fall of Camelot.
AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians - descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago - and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.
Court cancels Ukraine's first gay pride rally
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
KIEV, Ukraine — 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.
Iran denies its drone entered Bahrain's airspace
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.
Restaurant torched in 4th night of Sweden riots
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
STOCKHOLM — Groups of youths have burnt down a restaurant, torched more than 30 cars and injured three police in a fourth night of riots in suburbs of the Swedish capital that started following a fatal police shooting.
Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
MOSCOW — Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons.
Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
GROZNY, Russia — The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States.
Socialists try to form new govt in Bulgaria
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
SOFIA, Bulgaria — The Socialists, who finished second in Bulgaria's election this month, were asked to form a new government Thursday, after the front-running party was unable to.
White House declines comment on drone documents
| Thursday, May. 23, 2013
Press Secretary Jay Carney said he wouldn't talk about classified documents that McClatchy had obtained.
Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest _ for now
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
KATMANDU, Nepal — An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.
US family leaves Singapore frustrated with inquest
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
SINGAPORE — The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year left the city-state Thursday before the end of a coroner's inquest, saying they had lost faith in the process. Their lawyer said they would push for a U.S. congressional investigation.
Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.
North Korea envoy awaits chat with China's leader
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
BEIJING — On a visit to repair ties with China and waiting to meet its leader, a North Korean envoy paid deference Thursday to hopes by the North's chief ally for renewed multinational nuclear talks.
