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Greece to decide on interim government

Greece to decide on interim government

ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's president is to convene the crisis-struck country's political leaders once more, this time to appoint a caretaker government that will lead the country into new...

Posted: 05/16/12 at 7:25 am EDT
  • US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south

    US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south

    SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault Tuesday against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from a nearby desert air base-turned-command center.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 7:00 am EDT
  • 2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister

    2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister

    BOGOTA, Colombia -- A bomb targeting a hardline former interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 people in Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday in the type of brazen attack not seen in Colombia's capital in years.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 2:05 pm EDT
  • US officials sought to testify in Gitmo 9/11 trial

    US officials sought to testify in Gitmo 9/11 trial

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are asking a military judge to order testimony from senior U.S. government officials in a motion to dismiss charges.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:10 pm EDT
  • 'Black box' found of Russia jet in Indonesia crash

    'Black box' found of Russia jet in Indonesia crash

    JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Indonesian official says special forces have found the voice-and-data recorder of a Russian passenger jet that slammed into a jagged, mist-shrouded cliff on a dormant volcano.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:10 pm EDT
  • Terror trial of fugitive Iraq VP starts in Baghdad

    Terror trial of fugitive Iraq VP starts in Baghdad

    BAGHDAD -- The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president who is accused of running death squads against Shiite pilgrims and government officials has started in Baghdad.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 7:00 am EDT
  • EU navy, helicopters strike pirate supply center

    EU navy, helicopters strike pirate supply center

    MOGADISHU, Somalia -- European Union naval forces in attack helicopters on Tuesday conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia. A pirate said the strike destroyed a supply center and set back operations.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 7:00 am EDT
  • Lightning sparks Hollande's French presidency

    Lightning sparks Hollande's French presidency

    PARIS -- Socialist Francois Hollande assumed France's presidency Tuesday, inheriting a country fearful for its financial future and jetting off immediately to Berlin to tackle his most pressing problem: Europe's debt crisis.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:15 pm EDT
  • Fierce clashes between Yemeni army, al-Qaida

    Fierce clashes between Yemeni army, al-Qaida

    SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni military officials say warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have intensified the war against al-Qaida along at least four fronts in the south.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 7:00 am EDT
  • Hollande, Merkel pledge to seek growth for Europe

    Hollande, Merkel pledge to seek growth for Europe

    BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande agreed Tuesday to spend the coming weeks discussing proposals for generating economic growth in Europe, a first step to bridging their differences over how to tackle the eurozone debt crisis.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:20 pm EDT
  • Israeli group wins terror suit against Syria, Iran

    Israeli group wins terror suit against Syria, Iran

    JERUSALEM -- An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group's director said Tuesday.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:25 pm EDT
  • Greece to head to polls again after talks collapse

    Greece to head to polls again after talks collapse

    ATHENS, Greece -- Greece headed into a month of political uncertainty after power-sharing talks collapsed Tuesday, triggering new elections that could determine whether the country retains its tenuous position in Europe's currency.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:20 pm EDT
  • Prominent Legion priest admits he fathered child

    Prominent Legion priest admits he fathered child

    VATICAN CITY -- The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from 2009 revelations that its late founder was a pedophile who fathered three children, was hit Tuesday by another scandal after its most well-known priest admitted he had fathered a child several years ago.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:15 pm EDT
  • New cruises for Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico

    New cruises for Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico

    SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Carnival Corporation said Tuesday that it is building a $65 million cruise ship center in the Dominican Republic to draw ships to the Puerto Plata region for the first time in nearly 30 years.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:15 pm EDT
  • NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago

    NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago

    ISLAMABAD -- NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan's president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the war in the neighboring country.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 8:25 pm EDT
  • UN observers caught up in Syrian violence

    UN observers caught up in Syrian violence

    BEIRUT -- The U.N.'s observer mission in Syria was caught up in a burst of violence Tuesday captured on video, with a roadside bomb damaging its cars just minutes after witnesses said regime forces gunned down mourners at a funeral procession nearby.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 2:15 pm EDT
  • Iran hangs alleged Israeli agent in shadow war

    Iran hangs alleged Israeli agent in shadow war

    TEHRAN, Iran -- At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel's spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow war against Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 2:15 pm EDT
  • Egypt Brotherhood takes harder line in campaign

    Egypt Brotherhood takes harder line in campaign

    CAIRO -- At a campaign rally for the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president, a hardline cleric and TV preacher sang Mohammed Morsi's praises before thousands massed in the stadium of an industrial city in Egypt's Nile Delta.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 2:15 pm EDT
  • North Lebanon calm after Syria spillover clashes

    North Lebanon calm after Syria spillover clashes

    TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Lebanese troops deployed Tuesday in tense areas of the northern city of Tripoli after three days of sectarian clashes killed at least six people in a spillover of the 14-month-long conflict in neighboring Syria.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 7:00 am EDT
  • Iran hangs man for killing nuclear scientist

    Iran hangs man for killing nuclear scientist

    TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's state TV says authorities have hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist.

    Posted: 05/15/12 at 7:00 am EDT
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