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.
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.
Restaurant torched in 4th night of Sweden riots
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
STOCKHOLM — Groups of youth 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.
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.
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.
Japan stocks dive as benchmark bond yield spikes
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BANGKOK — Japanese stocks plummeted Thursday after a spike in government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing spooked investors sitting atop months of massive gains in share prices. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo nosedived 7.3 percent to close at 14,483.98.
Pussy Riot member declares hunger strike in prison
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BEREZNIKI, Russia — An imprisoned member of the punk band Pussy Riot says she is going on hunger strike after a judge refused to allow her to attend a court hearing where she was seeking release on parole.
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.
Germany backs terror label for Hezbollah militants
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BERLIN — Germany says it supports adding the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to the European Union's list of terrorist groups.
Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died and 600,000 were evicted from their homes.
EU steps up fight against tax evasion by end 2013
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BRUSSELS — The European Union's leaders took a major step in tackling tax-dodgers Wednesday by pushing to end bank secrecy across the bloc's 27 members by the end of the year.
IAEA report: Iran expands nuclear technology
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
VIENNA — The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor.
Iran's Ahmadinejad looks to outsider options
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
TEHRAN, Iran — By now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is well-accustomed to enduring blows from Iran's ruling clerics as his reputation fell from favored son to political outcast. But their intended parting shot - barring his chief aid from the presidential race - may be just the opening act in Ahmadinejad's reinvention as a self-styled opposition force.
Chinese premier visits Pakistan, praises ties
| |Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
ISLAMABAD — China's premier signed economic agreements and praised Pakistan in glowing terms as he began a two-day visit Wednesday, underscoring the importance of the longstanding alliance to the two Asian powers.
6 kids among 7 injured in south China attack
|Wednesday, May. 22, 2013
BEIJING — 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.
