Russian drunk driver who killed orphans sentenced
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
MOSCOW — A Russian drunken driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to prison.
African Union celebrates 50th year
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from colonial masters. Now leaders want to map out the next 50 years of political and economic integration.
Vienna official: Looted Nazi goods returned
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
VIENNA — An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ago.
Ukrainian journalists disrupt government session
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian reporters on Wednesday disrupted a government session chaired by the prime minister, suggesting his family members could be the next victims of official inaction after police in Kiev stood by while pro-government activists attacked two journalists covering an opposition protest.
Zimbabwe's president signs new constitution
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday signed into law a new constitution and vowed to hold peaceful and clean elections later this year.
Ethiopian corruption watchdog arrests 51 suspects
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian authorities have carried out another wave of arrests that brings the number of people detained on suspicions of corruption to more than 50.
Amid signs of turmoil, S Sudan says oil will flow
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
JUBA, South Sudan — Following a lengthy Cabinet meeting, South Sudan's government spokesman said Wednesday that the country will continue to export oil through Sudan and that there had been only a temporary slowdown in production.
Czech president settles dispute over gay rights
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
PRAGUE — The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him.
EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BRUSSELS — The European Union is reassessing whether to declare the Lebanese party Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization, a move it has long shied from despite pressure from the U.S., officials said Wednesday.
Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by far the highest toll since the U.S. withdrew its forces in late 2011, an official said Wednesday.
Trial for captain in deadly shipwreck in Italy
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ROME — An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, which killed 32 people.
IMF calls on Britain to do more for growth
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
LONDON — The International Monetary Fund has called on Britain to do more to support the economic recovery, urging the government Wednesday to speed up investment in infrastructure and come up with a plan to privatize its bailed out banks.
Congo fighting persists as UN chief arrives
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
GOMA, Congo — M23 rebels fired two rockets into the eastern Congo city of Goma, killing one person and wounding four, officials said, in an apparent spillover from three days of fighting raging north of the city.
Riots in Stockholm spread to more suburbs
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
STOCKHOLM — Groups of youth have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as the riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish capital.
Vatican releases 1st report of financial watchdog
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.
UK, Denmark eye visas for Afghan interpreters
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
LONDON — Britain and Denmark proposed Wednesday to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. and Denmark in recognition of the risks they face if they stay in their war-battered homeland.
Mais non! French universities may teach in English
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
PARIS — In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite.
Stocks surge as Bernanke retains dovish tone
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
LONDON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's signal that monetary policy will remain loose gave stocks another lift Wednesday, paving the way for many indexes to advance to new record highs.
Death toll rises to 23 in China factory blast
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BEIJING — The death toll from a massive blast at an explosives plant in eastern China has risen to 23 with 10 people still missing.
Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
DUBLIN — British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the 1982 IRA attack on the queen's cavalry in Hyde Park, a nail-bombing at a top London tourist attraction that left four soldiers and seven horses dead.
