Niger president says attackers came from Libya
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
NIAMEY, Mali — Niger's president says suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern Libya.
Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has rallied a huge crowd celebrating 10 years in power by her government and that of her late husband.
Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
LONDON — Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.
Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."
Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
SANAA, Yemen — Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past.
Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
ANKARA, Turkey — Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public.
Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
NEW DELHI — Suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire Saturday on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police said.
French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
PARIS — A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists.
Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.
Iraq car bomb kills 6 Iranian pilgrims, 1 Iraqi
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
BAGHDAD — Two Iraqi police officers say a car bomb has exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad, killing six Iranians and one Iraqi.
Egypt top court rules against religious slogans
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
CAIRO — Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.
The Dead Sea Scrolls at a glance
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of more than 10,000 manuscript fragments representing 900 separate texts, including the oldest biblical texts ever found. They were discovered in caves in the Judean desert alongside the Dead Sea. Most of the scrolls are animal skin parchment, a few are papyrus, and one is made of copper. At least 90 percent are written in Hebrew, while the rest are in Aramaic and Greek.
Fragments of biblical treasure are up for sale
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
JERUSALEM — Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale - in tiny pieces.
Israeli expert says Syria cyberattack foiled
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
JERUSALEM — An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa.
Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital
| |Saturday, May. 25, 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan — A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers.
Russian police detain activists, foes at gay rally
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
MOSCOW — Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country's first-ever gay pride march.
UK zookeeper dies from tiger attack injuries
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
LONDON — A young zookeeper who was mauled by a Sumatran tiger at an animal park has died, British police said Saturday.
Pirates release German ship's 4 crew members
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
BERLIN — A German shipping company says four crew members from one of its vessels have been released a month after being kidnapped by pirates off Equatorial Guinea's coast.
Saudi Arabia warns against Iran's nuclear program
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal has warned against the danger of Iran's nuclear program to the region's security and said Iran should not threaten its neighbors since countries in the region harbor no ill-intentions to the Islamic Republic.
Priest who defied Mafia is beatified in Sicily
|Saturday, May. 25, 2013
ROME — An Italian priest who stirred consciences with his anti-Mafia preaching and was gunned down by mobsters has been honored by the Vatican as a martyr.
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