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APNewsBreak: Europe faces jihadist threat

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BERLIN (AP) -- With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe - and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any known networks, making them hard to track and stop....

APNewsBreak: Europe faces jihadist threat

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BERLIN (AP) -- With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe - and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any known networks, making them hard to track and stop....

Pope brings message of hope at giant Mass

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
SILAO, Mexico (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI addressed hundreds of thousands of Mexicans seeking a message of hope for their violence-plagued country at an open-air Mass on Sunday, saying renewing their hearts and faith would help them in troubled times....

Syria's first lady faces sanctions, contempt

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BEIRUT (AP) -- As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country burned....

Syria's first lady faces sanctions, contempt

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BEIRUT (AP) -- As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country burned....

Pope decries Mexico violence, urges change in Cuba

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI denounced the drug-fueled violence wracking Mexico and urged Cubans to use dialogue to find new models to replace Marxism as he began a pilgrimage Friday that will take him to both countries....

Tuareg rebels take Mali town, threaten 3 more

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Tuareg rebels on Friday threatened three strategic northern Mali towns, including the famed ancient city of Timbuktu, as leaders of the two-month-old rebellion took advantage of a power vacuum caused when government soldiers stormed the presidential palace and ousted the democratically elected president....

Drug-resistant TB blamed on Indian treatment flaws

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's inadequate government-run tuberculosis treatment programs and a lack of regulation of the sale of drugs that fight it are responsible for the spiraling number of drug-resistant cases that are difficult to treat, health activists said Friday....

African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) -- The African Union said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army....

African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) -- The African Union said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army....

EU expands range of its anti-piracy strikes

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The EU will expand its seagoing anti-piracy mission to include for the first time the Somali coast itself and waterways inside the country, the bloc said Friday....

EU expands range of its anti-piracy strikes

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The EU will expand its seagoing anti-piracy mission to include for the first time the Somali coast itself and waterways inside the country, the bloc said Friday....

EU imposes sanctions on Assad's wife, relatives

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BRUSSELS (AP) -- EU foreign ministers imposed sanctions Friday on Asma Assad, the stylish, British-born wife of the Syrian president, banning her from traveling to European Union countries and freezing any assets she may have there....

APNewsBreak: Europe faces jihadist threat

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BERLIN (AP) -- With France's deadly attacks, Islamic terror has apparently struck once more in the heart of Europe - and authorities say there's a dangerous twist: the emergence of homegrown extremists operating independent of any known networks, making them hard to track and stop....

Officials: Gunman's brother transferred to Paris

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
PARIS (AP) -- The mother of the man accused of killing seven people in a shooting rampage in France is set to be released, but his older brother has been transferred to Paris to face possible charges, a police union official said Saturday....

Exxon Valdez sold, likely destined for scrap heap

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The notorious Exxon Valdez tanker, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history two decades ago, has been bought by an Indian company almost certainly to be scrapped for its steel and spare parts....

Exxon Valdez sold, likely destined for scrap heap

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The notorious Exxon Valdez tanker, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history two decades ago, has been bought by an Indian company almost certainly to be scrapped for its steel and spare parts....

Army sergeant to be charged in Afghan killings

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military intends to tell Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales Friday he faces 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, along with other charges, in connection with a shooting rampage in two southern Afghanistan villages that shocked Americans back home and further roiled U.S.-Afghan relations....

US-Pakistan talks to restart after airstrike probe

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 04:57
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States and Pakistan will resume talks on the possible reopening of supply routes to Afghanistan after Pakistan completes its probe into an airstrike that killed 24 of its soldiers, a senior U.S. official said Friday....
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