International

Al-Qaida bomb master: 'Brutality' and 'novelty'

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri has built a reputation as al-Qaida's bomb-making savant one potential near miss at time: Explosive-rigged underwear aboard a Christmas flight to the U.S. in 2009, printers fitted with high-grade explosives the next year and now possibly a metal-free device that could avoid airport detectors....

Greek president in last-ditch coalition effort

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek President Karolos Papoulias called for the leaders of Greece's political parties to meet on Sunday, in a last-ditch effort to broker a deal for a coalition government and avoid another general election....

Netanyahu emerges as strongman with unity deal

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: peace with the Palestinians, possible war with Iran, and the growing rift at home between religious and secular Jews....

Judge: South Africa must probe rights in Zimbabwe

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- A South African judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to investigate whether Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government committed human rights abuses, saying it would benefit Zimbabweans tortured in their homeland and South Africans determined to see their own government live up to its international responsibilities....

UK's John Major: Murdoch tried to change policy

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister John Major said Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch tried to influence his government's dealings with the European Union, even hinting that the politician could lose the support of the media mogul's newspapers if he didn't change direction....

IAEA inspector killed in Iran car crash

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A U.N. nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed and a colleague was injured in a car crash Tuesday near a reactor site in central Iran, state media and the nuclear watchdog agency said....

Putin strikes back at critical Russian lawmakers

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin had no trouble getting the Kremlin-controlled parliament to approve former President Dmitry Medvedev as his prime minister Tuesday, but he did not much like the startlingly critical questions Medvedev faced from lawmakers before the vote....

‘Bait Car’ Show Stings Police Instead of Car Thief

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
LA Times | TV Show 'Bait Car' catches officer in a lie, claiming he read full Miranda rights to perpetrator when show footage shows evidence to the contrary.

Mideast nuclear conference in jeopardy

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
VIENNA (AP) -- Hopes dimmed Monday for staging major nuclear talks later this year between Israel and its Muslim rivals, as Iran and Arab countries at a 189-nation conference accused Israel of being the greatest threat to peace in the region and Egypt warned that Arab states might rethink their opposition to atomic arms....

UK convicts 9 for participating in child-sex ring

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-04-30 06:31
LONDON (AP) -- Nine men of Pakistani and Afghan descent were convicted Tuesday for participating in a child sex ring in a case that touched off deep sensitivities about race in Britain and galvanized the far right....
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