Tunisia security blocks salafi conference

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA

Massive numbers of Tunisian police and army surrounded Tunisia's religious center of Kairouan to prevent a conference by a radical Islamist mo…

Kenya police kill "terror couple"

By TOM ODULA

Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a polic…

Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh

The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities Sunday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last…

Saudi vegetable seller dies from self-immolation

By ABDULLAH Al-SHIHRI

A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized…

Chinese premier visits India to boost ties

By ASHOK SHARMA

Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look…

Iran's Guard warns against post-election turmoil

By NASSER KARIMI

A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned that his forces will be on watch for possible unrest after next month's presidenti…

North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters

By HYUNG-JIN KIM

North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, of…

Chinese boat owner says NKoreans detained his crew

Unidentified North Koreans have seized a Chinese fishing boat and its 16 crew members and have demanded a ransom, Chinese state media and the …

Syrian activists: Shelling near Lebanon kills 16

By JAMAL HALABY

The Syrian military on Sunday launched an offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, a government official said…

Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row

An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes dur…

Pakistan holds re-vote in Karachi despite killing

By ATIF RAZA

Pakistan is holding a repeat election in an upmarket area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging.

Second Vietnamese TV provider drops CNN and BBC

By CHRIS BRUMMITT

A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a l…

Death toll in collapsed Indonesia mine rises to 6

By JEFREY PATTIRAJAWANE

Rescuers have pulled another body from a collapsed facility at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the death toll to six.

Report: Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying

Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.

Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

By VICENTE PANETTA

It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.

20 flights without bags after Egypt airport strike

By AYA BATRAWY

Egyptian officials say baggage handlers in Cairo's airport have gone on strike to protest a colleague's death, leaving passengers on 20 intern…

Suspected US drone in Yemen kills 4 militants

By AHMED AL-HAJ

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to se…

Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

ESAM MOHAMED

Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten

By AYA BATRAWY

In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old an…

Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader

By ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the n…

Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped

By SAMEER N. YACOUB

A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main…

Journalist found dead in eastern Congo

By MELANIE GOUBY

The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's …

Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city

By HARUNA UMAR and JON GAMBRELL

Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremis…

Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights

By KAY JOHNSON

Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguin…

Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA

Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost th…

Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

By DAVID McFADDEN

Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northea…

Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-grad…

AP Impact: Myanmar sanctions list languishes

By ERIKA KINETZ and MATTHEW PENNINGTON

If you're American and want to do business in Myanmar, there's a list of people and companies you have to steer clear of by law. But it leaves…

Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

By MARIAM RIZK

Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a hea…

64 including Saudi Arabian woman scale Everest

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.

Afghan police chief shot dead outside home

By RAHIM FAIEZ

Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an of…

China arrests man over fake plane bomb threats

A man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai, Chinese officials said Saturday.

Canada abuzz over purported crack video of mayor

By ROB GILLIES

A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations "ridiculous."

Myanmar leader frees prisoners ahead of US visit

By AYE AYE WIN

Myanmar's president has pardoned at least 20 political prisoners just ahead of a historic visit to the United States that will highlight the t…

Southern China rains kill 55, leave 14 missing

Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China this week have killed 55 people and left 14 others missing.

AP PHOTOS: Cuba's LGBT community celebrates

A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day A…

Egypt security forces clash with Cairo protesters

By SARAH EL DEEB

Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas at protesters hurling firebombs at them in central Cairo, hours after hundreds of opponents of Eg…

Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

By MICHAEL WARREN

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow…

Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

By KARL RITTER

Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

Ex-warlord Johnson in Liberia quits his own party

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH

Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-pres…

Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abductio…

Hagel names general to lead US troops in SKorea

By ROBERT BURNS

An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. tr…

Iraqi officials: bomb strikes a Sunni area in Baghdad, raising overall daily death toll to 58.

5.2-magnitude earthquake felt in Ontario

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Ottawa rattled buildings Friday in Ontario and Quebec and was felt across upstate New York fr…

World stocks strong into the weekend

By TOBY STERLING

World stock markets rose steadily on Friday after two key indicators suggested the U.S. economic expansion will continue.

Zimbabwe PM confident he'll oust Mugabe in vote

By GILLIAN GOTORA

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the natio…

Mosque, funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq

SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press

BAGHDAD | Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers outside Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadl…

23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa

By WANDOO MAKURDI

Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African poli…

A look at `enforced disappearances' worldwide

By The Associated Press

The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the pas…

Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

By KARIN LAUB

About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital o…

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