86 sentenced in Macedonia highway toll scam case
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
SKOPJE, Macedonia — A criminal court in Macedonia's capital has sentenced 86 employees of a road management company to prison terms ranging from eight months to more than six years for involvement in a massive highway toll scam.
Appellate court: Berlusconi ran illegal scheme
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
MILAN — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday called "surreal" the judicial reasoning behind an appellate court's decision to uphold his guilty verdict and four-year jail term in a tax fraud case.
Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
BAGHDAD — Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month.
Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in Mogadishu.
Togo police fire tear gas at protesters
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
LOME, Togo — Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the latest confrontation between the ruling party and Togo's increasingly active opposition. Demonstrators were gathering to protest the death of an opposition member, who died in jail.
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.
Massive fuel-depot fire breaks out in Brazil
|Thursday, May. 23, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive fire broke out Thursday at a fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, sending bright orange flames leaping high into the air and thick black smoking rolling upward and enveloping the area.
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.
World stocks erratic a day after big sell-off
| |Thursday, May. 23, 2013
BANGKOK — Asian shares traded erratically Friday but European markets found their footing, a day after global stocks were routed by unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing and fears the Federal Reserve will start withdrawing its monetary stimulus.
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.
