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French gunman's brother charged, denies role

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
PARIS (AP) -- A Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday....

French gunman's brother charged, denies role

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
PARIS (AP) -- A Frenchman suspected of helping his brother plot attacks against Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers was handed preliminary murder and terrorism charges Sunday....

Armed Libyans hand airport to police, ready or not

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- A powerful Libyan militia said Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's main airport, leaving it unprotected with no government security force to take over....

Senegal president, ex-protege face off in 2nd vote

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Senegal's president pumped his fists confidently in the air outside his polling station Sunday, as voters cast their ballots in a runoff election that could oust the 85-year-old leader after 12 years in power....

Coup leader in Mali does not back down

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- One day after an embargo was placed on Mali, the soldier who led a recent coup there says he agrees the nation's constitutional order should be restored, but he wants to first address Mali's ills....

Mali ministers held by junta go on hunger strike

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's foreign minister and 13 others being detained by the junta that took over Mali started a hunger strike Sunday, the minister's brother said....

Bomb kills 2 NATO service members in Afghanistan

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO forces say two international service members have been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan....

Obama squeezes N. Korea to change, China to help

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Trying to muscle North Korea toward peace over provocation, President Barack Obama is broadening his squeeze play from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning North Korea that it is headed toward a crippling "dead end" of isolation....

Obama squeezes N. Korea to change, China to help

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Trying to muscle North Korea toward peace over provocation, President Barack Obama is broadening his squeeze play from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning North Korea that it is headed toward a crippling "dead end" of isolation....

Obama squeezes N. Korea to change, China to help

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Trying to muscle North Korea toward peace over provocation, President Barack Obama is broadening his squeeze play from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning North Korea that it is headed toward a crippling "dead end" of isolation....

Israeli charged with trafficking African migrants

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli man has been charged with participation in a human trafficking ring that captured and tortured African migrants in Egypt's neighboring Sinai desert, according to an indictment released Sunday....

Chavez back home, talks emotionally on his cancer

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attended Mass with family Thursday after returning from his latest round of radiation therapy treatment in Cuba, talking emotionally about his struggle with cancer....

Gaza baby dies after respirator runs out of fuel

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Gaza man said Sunday his 5-month-old baby died after the generator powering his respirator ran out of fuel, the first known death linked to the territory's energy crisis....

Israel to build 850 homes in West Bank

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's plans to build hundreds of new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements have put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at odds again with Washington and the Palestinians, without appeasing settlers furious over the government's plan to dismantle an illegally built enclave....

Previously undisclosed Lockerbie files published

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
LONDON (AP) -- A Scottish newspaper on Sunday published previously undisclosed files on the 1988 Pan Am bombing that killed hundreds over Lockerbie, arguing it is in the public interest to ignore data protection laws that have kept the documents from the public....

Previously undisclosed Lockerbie files published

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
LONDON (AP) -- A Scottish newspaper has published what it says are previously undisclosed files on the 1988 Pan Am bombing that the only suspect convicted in the case has claimed cast doubt on his involvement....

Ex-Irish premier quits party over secret payments

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
DUBLIN (AP) -- Former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced Sunday he has resigned from the Fianna Fail party rather than be expelled over an investigation into secret payments he received while in office, but vowed to clear his name....

French open probe into gunman's brother

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
PARIS (AP) -- Signs mounted Sunday that the brother of a radical Islamist gunman who killed schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France may have helped prepare the attacks....

Syria intervention talk as diplomacy withers

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
ISTANBUL (AP) -- A year of sanctions, diplomacy and harsh rhetoric failed to stop Syria's bloody crackdown and oust President Bashar Assad. With frustration running high, Turkey and other countries that have staked moral credibility on ending the violence are increasingly looking at intervention on Syrian soil, a strategy they have so far avoided for lack of international consensus and fears it could widen the conflict....

Senegal president, ex-protege face off in 2nd vote

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 01:09
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Police fired tear gas at boisterous crowds outside a polling station in Senegal's capital Sunday as voters decided whether to give their 85-year-old president another term in office or instead back his one-time protege....
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