Hawkish Israeli legislator wins key party position

JERUSALEM –  A hard-line Israeli legislator who opposes the creation of a Palestinian state has been voted into a key leadership ...

Kerry joins Asia talks with focus on security, Snowden

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AFP) –  US Secretary of State John Kerry flew from tough Middle East peace talks into international ...

UN peacekeepers take over ahead of Mali polls

BAMAKO (AFP) –  United Nations peacekeepers prepared Monday to take over from African troops in Mali with a mission to ensure sta...

Rescuers refuse to give up hope for lost US yacht

WELLINGTON (AFP) –  Rescuers were on Monday refusing to give up the search for survivors from a vintage US yacht believed to have...

Australia have peaked too early - Lions coach

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) –  British and Irish Lions assistant coach Andy Farrell says Australia may have peaked a game early, af...

Australia PM puts record number of women in cabinet

SYDNEY (AFP) –  New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd unveiled his cabinet on Monday, bringing in a record number of women and...

Indigenous beauty pageant held in Bolivia

LA PAZ, Bolivia –  Dressed in long skirts, embroidered shawls and bowler hats, 17 indigenous women in Bolivia vied for the title ...

At least 20 feared dead after minibus veers off bridge in Benin

PORTO-NOVO, Benin (AFP) –  At least 20 people were feared dead in Benin after a minibus careered off a bridge just outside of the...

Confed Cup Live: AP follows the final day action

RIO DE JANEIRO –  The Associated Press is following events in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The Confederations Cup final between Spai...

Bomb at Baghdad football pitch kills nine: officials

BAGHDAD (AFP) –  A bombing at a Baghdad football pitch killed nine people Sunday, the majority of them young boys, officials said...

US marks 4 years since soldier captured in Afghanistan

KABUL (AFP) –  The US commander in Afghanistan said Sunday he hoped that an American soldier held by the Taliban would soon retur...

Gulf-EU meeting calls for Syria political settlement

DUBAI (AFP) –  The Gulf Arab nations and the European Union pledged Sunday to pool their efforts to help convene a peace conferen...

West Indies win toss, make India bat in 2nd ODI

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) –  Stand-in West Indies captain Kieron Pollard won the toss and put India in to bat in the second match o...

Refugees from Libya refuse to leave Tunisia camp

CHOUCHA, Tunisia (AFP) –  Several hundred people who had fled the 2011 Libya conflict refused Sunday to leave the Choucha refugee...

All Blacks to meet Fiji in Rugby W. Cup Sevens semis

MOSCOW (AFP) –  New Zealand knocked defending champions Wales out of the Rugby World Cup Sevens on Sunday and set up a semi-final...

Car bomb kills 15 as British PM visits Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) –  A car bomb aimed at a Pakistani security force convoy killed 15 people and wounded 25 others Sunday o...

Wallaby coach lauds match-winner Lealiifano

MELBOURNE (AFP) –  Coach Robbie Deans has predicted a big future for Christian Lealiifano after he climbed off the canvas to kick...

Cambodian jungle graveyard mystifies experts

PHNOM PEL, Cambodia (AFP) –  Over a hundred 'burial jars' and a dozen coffins arranged on a ledge in remote Cambodian jun...

China expels legislator for violating discipline

BEIJING –  China says it has expelled a member of the national legislature for "serious disciplinary violations" amid a...

TB cattle entering human food chain: report

LONDON (AFP) –  Tens of thousands of diseased cattle slaughtered because they have bovine tuberculosis are being sold for human c...

Argentina takes down Columbus statue from pedestal

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –  Workers with cranes have taken down a controversial statue of Christopher Columbus in Argentina's ...

Kerry, on Mideast tour, to confront doubts in Asia

JERUSALEM (AFP) –  Secretary of State John Kerry heads to talks in Asia trying to quash fears that the vaunted US refocus on the ...

On coup anniversary Sudan ex-PM calls for regime to go

OMDURMAN (AFP) –  Sudan's former leader Sadiq al-Mahdi held an unusual show of force on Saturday, telling thousands of follow...

Gunmen kill Egypt policeman in Sinai ambush: security

CAIRO (AFP) –  Gunmen shot and killed an Egyptian police officer during an ambush Saturday in the Sinai peninsula, a security sou...

Five years after freedom, Betancourt urges forgiveness

BOGOTA (AFP) –  Five years after her rescue from FARC rebels, former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt says she ...

Tunisia puts off vote to ban ex-regime figures

TUNIS, Tunisia –  Tunisian lawmakers have postponed debate on a bill that would ban from office ex-members of the North African c...

Turkmen leader celebrates birthday with J.Lo

AVAZA, Turkmenistan (AFP) –  US pop diva Jennifer Lopez is set to perform Saturday at lavish birthday celebrations for Turkmenist...

Dozens arrested at gay pride rally in Russia

MOSCOW –  Russian police have arrested several gay rights activists and Russian nationalists who confronted them at a rally decla...

Syrian fighter jets hit central city of Homs

BEIRUT –  Syrian warplanes and ground forces bombarded rebel-held neighborhoods in Homs on Saturday as part of the military's...

Egypt on edge ahead of more protests

CAIRO –  Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's embattled Islamist president are holding rival sit-ins on the eve o...

Market bomb, shooting kill 7 in Iraq

BAGHDAD –  Iraqi officials say a bomb has gone off in an outdoor market in west Baghdad, one of two attacks in Sunni-majority par...

Egypt prepares for worst ahead of Sunday protest

CAIRO –  As the streets once again fill with protesters eager to oust the president and Islamists determined to keep him in power...

AP Interview: Abe chided for querying war apology

TOKYO –  A retired Japanese politician whose name is on a landmark 1993 apology over Japan's use of wartime sex slaves says P...

SKorea extends $7.3 billion fighter jet bidding

SEOUL, South Korea –  South Korea has extended its window for accepting bids from aircraft makers to supply 60 fighter jets at an...

From Egypt petition drive, a new grassroot wave

CAIRO –  Teenager Gehad Mustafa wears an ultraconservative veil over her face and was raised in a family of staunch Muslim Brothe...