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Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers

A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in Mogadishu. African Union and Somali troops pushed al-Shabab insurgents out of the capital in August 2011, fostering a relatively secure peace that Mogadishu hasn't seen ...

  • Updated: 11:38 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Togo police fire tear gas at protesters

Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the latest confrontation between the ruling party and Togo's increasingly active opposition. Demonstrators were gathering to protest the death of an opposition member, who died in jail. The demonstration was the second this week, following a women's march on Tuesday in which ...

  • Updated: 11:24 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole

A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith have sent, urging Russia's courts to free Maria Alekhina and the other Pussy Riot still in prison, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. In ...

  • Updated: 11:20 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
A police man stands guard in front of a crime scene in, Brno, Czech Republic, Thursday, May 23, 2013. An American man suspected of killing four people is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified the man as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Czech police seek US man suspected of 4 murders

An American man is suspected of killing a family of four and is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday. The bodies of the four victims — identified by neighbors as a married couple and their two sons — were found by firefighters who ...

  • Updated: 11:17 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Male brown bear Ari and female bear Arina in a bear sanctuary, after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a privately run illegal zoo, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in the village of Mramor near the Kosovo capital Pristina . Two brown bears, Ari and Arina have been released into a bear Sanctuary, in Kosovo after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a 20 square meter cage to amuse visitors of a restaurant, Kosovo officials say. Authorities released the 10-year old male and female bears on Thursday to a wider enclosure set up by the international animal charity group Four Paws. The organisation was called in to help sedate and transport the animals. ( AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

2 brown bears rescued from captivity in Kosovo

Two brown bears have been released into a special sanctuary after being held in a 20-square-meter cage almost their entire lives to amuse visitors at a Kosovo restaurant. Ari and Arina, both 10 years old, were taken to their new, much larger home, by the international animal charity group Four ...

  • Updated: 11:09 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2012 file photo, Mahmoud, a 21-year-old Palestinian resident of Syria, rests in a field hospital after he was found with three gunshot wounds in the town of Anadan on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Mahmoud, who would give only one name, described being the only survivor of a massacre in which he and 10 other men were blindfolded, beaten and sprayed with bullets. Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday, May 23, 2013. The Palestinians in Syria are particularly vulnerable because of their refugee status, Filippo Grandi, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, told The Associated Press in an interview. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians

Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday. The Palestinians in Syria are particularly vulnerable because of ...

  • Updated: 10:53 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, speaks during a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The top Russian military officer has warned the West that Moscow reserves the right to take steps in response to the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe if it sees it as a threat. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts

Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons. The statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with Washington. ...

  • Updated: 10:19 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

EU performs abrupt U-turn on olive oil regulation

The EU has something important to say about its proposal to regulate olive oil on restaurant tables: Uh, never mind. Last week, the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, said that restaurants should only be allowed to serve oil to customers in non-refillable bottles with proper content labeling. The refillable ...

  • Updated: 10:08 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev waves to the media upon arrival at an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Leaders from the 27 European Union countries gather in Brussels for one of their regular European Council sessions. On the agenda is the increasingly controversial subject of tax evasion. Countries such as Austria and Luxembourg which have lucrative, and somewhat opaque, banking systems have begun to fight back against efforts to improve the transparency of the EU's financial system.(AP Photo/Ezequiel Scagnetti)

Socialists try to form new govt in Bulgaria

The Socialists, who finished second in Bulgaria's election this month, were asked to form a new government Thursday, after the front-running party was unable to. The Socialists have pledged to create a Cabinet of technocrats led by a former nonpartisan finance minister, Plamen Oresharski, and to quickly improve the economy ...

  • Updated: 10:00 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Pakistani security personnel examine a vehicle following a bombing in Quetta, Pakistan on Thursday, May 23, 2013. A car bomb targeting a police vehicle killed 11 policemen and one civilian Thursday in an area of southwest Pakistan wracked by a separatist insurgency and Islamic militancy, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Taliban rickshaw bomb kills 13 in Pakistan

A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, came the same day as fighting in the restive ...

  • Updated: 9:39 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
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