International

Iran says is building copy of captured US drone

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran said Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy....

China-Russia Yellow Sea naval drills begin

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
BEIJING (AP) -- China and Russia launched joint naval exercises Sunday that highlight warming ties between their militaries and growing cooperation in international affairs....

France's Hollande to renegotiate European treaty

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
PARIS (AP) -- French presidential front-runner Francois Hollande says that if he's elected, he would immediately ask other European leaders to renegotiate the fiscal treaty aimed at reducing debts to include measures to encourage growth....

Opposition strike cripples Bangladesh's capital

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Schools and businesses were shut in Bangladesh's capital on Sunday as opposition parties enforced a daylong general strike across the South Asian nation....

US woman becomes hero for battered wives in China

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
BEIJING (AP) -- Her head was ringing from the blows. Once, twice, three times, her husband slammed her face into the living room floor....

Cabbie unlikely celebrity in Colombia sex scandal

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- The Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding....

Cabbie unlikely celebrity in Colombia sex scandal

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- The Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding....

It's all about emotion in French presidential race

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
PARIS (AP) -- Like Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy swept to power on a wave of hope for change. Sarkozy's wave crashed on the global financial crisis and his own failings. On Sunday, the French leader faces a tough fight against nine challengers in presidential elections awash in fear and anger....

Report: Wal-Mart hushed up bribe network in Mexico

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, according to a published report....

Report: Wal-Mart hushed up bribe network in Mexico

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, according to a published report....

Report: Wal-Mart hushed up bribe network in Mexico

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, according to a published report....

Cabbie unlikely celebrity in Colombia sex scandal

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- The Secret Service sex scandal has spawned X-rated jokes, inspired a spicy song set to a local Caribbean beat, and made an unlikely celebrity of a 42-year-old taxi driver who lives with his mother and now seems to be in hiding....

Yemeni army pushing into al-Qaida stronghold

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Government troops battling al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen have made inroads into the militants' strongholds, but the offensive on a strategic city has slowed because of concerns the extremists could launch a surprise counterattack, military officials said Thursday....

Yemeni troops battle al-Qaida militants in south

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's military regained part of a strategic southern city on Saturday after an intense battle with al-Qaida militants left 19 people dead as the government tries to purge the insurgents from their strongholds, officials said....

UN authorizes 300 Syria cease-fire observers

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday expanding the number of U.N. cease-fire observers in Syria from 30 to 300 and demanding an immediate halt to the violence that has been escalating since the government and opposition agreed to end hostilities more than a week ago....

UN authorizes 300 Syria cease-fire observers

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday expanding the number of U.N. cease-fire observers in Syria from 30 to 300 and demanding an immediate halt to the violence that has been escalating since the government and opposition agreed to end hostilities more than a week ago....

UN authorizes 300 Syria cease-fire observers

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday expanding the number of U.N. cease-fire observers in Syria from 30 to 300 and demanding an immediate halt to the violence that has been escalating since the government and opposition agreed to end hostilities more than a week ago....

Dutch trains collide; dozens injured

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Two busy passenger trains collided head-on near an Amsterdam park Saturday, injuring scores of people including more than 50 seriously, a police spokesman said....

Dutch trains collide; dozens injured

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Two busy passenger trains collided head-on near an Amsterdam park Saturday, injuring scores of people including more than 50 seriously, a police spokesman said....

Dutch trains collide; dozens injured

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-03 22:14
AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Two busy passenger trains collided head-on near an Amsterdam park Saturday, injuring scores of people including more than 50 seriously, a police spokesman said....
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