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Wave of attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq
A string of car bombs and shootings killed at least 57 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the morning ...
Rebels attack C. African Republic villages; 8 dead
Residents say armed men invaded a remote village in Central African Republic and killed six people. The attack comes just days after rebels assaulted another nearby town, where they killed two people. Residents in Bouca say four vehicles full of armed gunmen entered the village on Friday, where they shot ...
M23 rebels clash with soldiers in east Congo
Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, the first fighting between the groups since the M23 rebels overtook and later retreated from the provincial capital Goma last year. Lt. Col. Mamadou Ndala, a commander with the Congolese ...
Chinese, Indian leaders call for cooperation
The leaders of India and China played down their recent border dispute and other tensions Monday, pledging to work together for regional stability and the economic growth of the world's two most populous nations. Friction has been building between the Asian giants in recent years as they vie for regional ...
Myanmar leader making landmark White House visit
Former general Thein Sein on Monday becomes the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years, crowning a dramatic diplomatic rehabilitation for his nation after years of international isolation. But activists are angry about President Barack Obama hosting Thein Sein, and lawmakers are wary. ...
Uganda police raid newspaper over general's letter
Witnesses say police in Uganda forcibly entered the offices of an independent newspaper to search for evidence against an army general who questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed him. The Daily Monitor's political editor Henry Ochieng said about 50 plainclothes police entered the paper's premises Monday ...
Pakistan's former military ruler granted bail
A judge granted bail to Pakistan's former military ruler on Monday in a case related to the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his lawyer said. Despite the bail, retired Gen. Pervez Musharraf will remain under house arrest on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, in connection with two other ...
Israel bank heist kills 4; robber takes own life
Israeli police say a bungled bank robbery in a southern city left four people dead before the gunman took his own life. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says four people were killed when at least one gunman entered the bank in the city of Beersheba on Monday. A gunfight apparently broke ...
Russia targets pollster for 'political activity'
Russia's only independent polling agency says it may have to close after prosecutors targeted it for 'political activity.' Levada Center on Monday published a letter from prosecutors who said its polls and publications are "aimed at shaping public opinion on government policy" and demanded it cease publication until it registers ...
Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival: AHNA O'REILLY FETED AS SHE CELEBRATES TWO CANNES FILMS Along the water on the yachts where many of the Cannes Film Festival's uber-exclusive parties are thrown, guests are required to take off their shoes before stepping on the ...
Suspected US drone kills 2 in Yemen
Yemeni security and military officials say a suspected U.S. drone has killed two militants in a town in the center of the country. The officials said the Monday attack targeted the two men as they were riding a motorbike outside Radda in Bayda province. The officials said the two men ...
Report: 23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic opposition-held town near the Lebanese border Monday, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group fighting alongside regime troops have been killed in the clashes. The Britain-based ...
Egypt: Security beefed up in Sinai after abduction
Egyptian officials say dozens of military and police armored vehicles have crossed into Sinai, beefing up the security presence in the volatile peninsula five days after suspected militants kidnapped six policemen and a border guard there. Islamist President Mohammed Morsi said all options are open to free the seven men. ...
24 killed in rebel vs army battle in South Sudan
South Sudan's military spokesman says 24 people were killed and dozens wounded during a battle between government troops and rebels who had overrun a town. Col. Philip Aguer said Monday that a battle in Jonglei state on Sunday killed 20 rebel fighters and four government troops. Aguer said the army ...
Turkey: 2 Brazilians killed in balloon crash
A hot air balloon collided with another balloon mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey and crashed to the ground on Monday, killing two Brazilian tourists and injuring 23 other people on board, officials said. The accident occurred above central Turkey's Cappadocia region, when an ascending ...
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