Posted 2:04 PM 5/22/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON (AP) - Two U.K. government officials say a brutal attack that left one man dead near a London military barracks appears to have been motivated by radical Islam. Two men apparently attacked another man near a London barracks Wednesday. Police said he died and the other two were (More)
Posted 8:42 AM 5/21/2013 by Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An international rights group says the number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months. Human Rights Watch says the increase may mean that authorities feel they no longer need to uphold gains in Afghan (More)
Posted 6:16 AM 5/20/2013 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi officials say a car bomb in another Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday (More)
Posted 11:57 AM 5/17/2013 by Associated Press
PARIS (AP) - A French police official says jewelry worth about $1 million has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town's film festival. Cmdr. Bernard Mascarelli, a judicial police spokesman in the nearby city of Nice, said a (More)
Posted 11:46 AM 5/16/2013 by Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Canada's prime minister says a controversial oil pipeline from his country to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead" and warns that the oil will be transported through one way or the other. Stephen Harper spoke on the Keystone XL project during a visit to (More)