Paraguayans elect tobacco magnate as president
Paraguayans elected a tobacco magnate as their new leader Sunday, returning the conservative Colorado Party to the presidency that it held for 61 ...
World finance leaders say growth still weak
While world finance leaders say the global economy has improved slightly this year, they said the outlook for the future was uneven with growth and ...
World finance leaders issue sober assessment
World finance leaders issued a somber assessment on Saturday of the global economy, saying the recovery remains uneven with growth and jobs in short ...
Conservatives likely to retake power in Paraguay
Paraguay is poised to elect as its new president a conservative candidate from the party that backed strongman Alfredo Stroessner during 35 years of ...
Child soldiers patrol C. African Republic capital
As fighters in fatigues lounge in the shade of the rebel camp in the capital of Central African Republic, a boy jumps up to greet visitors with a wide ...
Boy Scouts propose to lift gay ban for youth
Searching for compromise on a divisive issue, the Boy Scouts of America is proposing to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays — allowing ...
Hutu refugees fear forced return to Rwanda
Leodegard Kagaba lifted his shirt to reveal an ugly scar on his belly left by a bullet that nearly killed him. Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda, he said, ...
After long period of quiet, Guantanamo grows tense
The morning routine started before dawn with a prisoner chanting the Muslim call to prayer through a small opening in the heavy steel door of his cell ...
President: Israel to release ailing Palestinian
Israel's president says he has approved the release of an ailing Palestinian prisoner on humanitarian grounds. Shimon Peres noted in a statement that ...
Greece halts deportation for Syrians
Greece has suspended the deportation of immigrants from Syria who entered the country illegally, amid growing concern from human rights groups that ...
Thousands of Pakistanis homeless after quake
Thousands of people are homeless and desperate for aid in southwestern Pakistan following a deadly earthquake centered in neighboring Iran that ...
Judge denies Gitmo detainee's bid for relief
A federal judge Monday denied an emergency motion for relief filed by a Guantanamo Bay prisoner on a hunger strike, despite pleas from the man's ...
French Senate passes gay marriage bill
The French Senate voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage in France, putting a landmark bill on track to become law by summer. The vote in the ...
Correction: Israel-Palestinians story
In an April 11 story about a Palestinian-American teenager held in an Israeli jail, The Associated Press misidentified one of the interviewees.
Second camp for Syrian refugees opens in Jordan
Struggling to cope with the influx of Syrian refugees, Jordan on Wednesday opened a second camp for Syrians fleeing the civil war at home. The kingdom ...
UN: Central African Republic is very volatile
The political and security situation in the Central African Republic is highly volatile, the humanitarian situation is "extremely dire," looting and ...
Afghan women in Kabul prison over 'moral' crimes
Lost and alone in a strange city Mariam called the only person she knew, her husband's cousin. She worried he wouldn't help her because she had left ...
Amid financial crisis, Cyprus convicts offer help
With Cyprus' economy falling apart, even those behind prison bars are pulling together to help people in need. Dozens of central prison inmates ...
Italy pardons US Air Force officer in CIA case
Italy's president on Friday pardoned a U.S. Air Force colonel convicted in absentia by Italian courts in the CIA-conducted abduction of an Egyptian ...
Pope seeks decisive action against sex abuse
Pope Francis directed the Vatican on Friday to act decisively on clergy sex abuse cases and punish pedophile priests, saying the Catholic Church's ...
Mom frantic as she tries to revive Russian adoptee
The mother of a dying 3-year-old adopted Russian boy was frantic and crying as she tried to revive her son while emergency personnel raced to her ...
High-profile rapes threaten India tourism business
A fatal gang rape in New Delhi didn't deter Germans Carolina De Paolo and Canan Wahner from traveling to India for a six-week tour. The attack was ...
Rebels capture military base in southern Syria
Syrian rebels captured a military base in the country's south on Wednesday after days of heavy fighting, activists said, in the latest advance by ...
African forces suspend hunt for warlord Kony
African troops in Central African Republic have suspended the hunt for the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony because the new government there is not ...
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