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Jordan arrests 12 activists for insulting king

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A Jordanian police official says 12 activists have been arrested for insulting the country's King Abdullah II in a rally in the capital....

Bombs in southern Thailand kill 14, wound 341

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists....

Bombs in southern Thailand kill 14, wound 341

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and wounding 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists....

Menu from Titanic's last lunch sells at UK auction

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
LONDON (AP) -- A British auctioneer says that a first class menu from the Titanic's last lunch has sold for 76,000 pounds (about $120,000.)...

Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that had drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia following repairs, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday....

Libya: 147 killed in 6 days of clashes in south

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Six days of tribal clashes in a remote desert town in southern Libya have killed 147 people, the country's health minister said Saturday....

Cuba makes Good Friday a holiday after papal trip

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba has honored an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI and declared next week's Good Friday a holiday for the first time since the early days following the island's 1959 Revolution, though a decision on whether the move will be permanent will have to wait....

Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public....

Iraqi-American woman slain in US is buried in Iraq

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family members wept uncontrollably by her graveside and her father asked God to exact revenge on those responsible for her death....

Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that drifted in southern Philippine waters for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia after repairs, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday....

Bombs in southern Thailand kill 11, wound 110

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly attack in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 11 people and wounding 110 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers just before lunchtime....

Mali junta confident of progress after meeting

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A representative of the military junta that seized control of Mali in a coup last week says the group is confident they will find a solution to the crisis after meeting with Burkina Faso's president....

Boozing of British lawmakers under review

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers have been known to get rowdy during debates. They also have been known to fall down drunk during a vote, headbutt colleagues in a drunken brawl, and run up 50,000 pound ($80,000) tabs for food and drink....

Bahrain says gunfire killed young protester

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Bahraini security forces fired tear gas during clashes Saturday with protesters who gathered after authorities acknowledged that gunfire killed a young man during earlier anti-government demonstrations in the Gulf kingdom....

Activists: New shelling in central Syria

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
BEIRUT (AP) -- Activists say Syrian troops are shelling restive suburbs of Damascus and rebel-held areas in the central city of Homs....

Iraqi-American woman slain in US is buried in Iraq

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week, with a threatening note left beside her body, was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family members wept uncontrollably by her graveside and her father asked God to exact revenge on those responsible for her death....

Mali rebels attack northern town in coup aftermath

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Rebels on Saturday attacked Mali's strategic northern city of Gao, a day after they took the provincial capital of Kidal, witnesses and an official said. The move deepens the crisis in the landlocked nation at the feet of the Sahara in western Africa after a coup earlier this month....

Clashes between Yemeni army, militants kill 30

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida-linked militants staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army base in the south Saturday, setting off clashes that left 30 dead on both sides before air strikes forced the militants to retreat, military officials said....

Clashes between Yemeni army, militants kill 30

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida-linked militants staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army base in the south Saturday, setting off clashes that left 30 dead on both sides before air strikes forced the militants to retreat, military officials said....

Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-15 04:58
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public....
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