Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said.... 5/19/2013 10:37 AM

Syrian army pushes assault on rebel-held town
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Syrian troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched an assault Sunday on a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, pounding the area with airstrikes and artillery salvos that killed at least 30 people and forced residents to scramble for cover in basements and makeshift bunkers, activists said.... 5/19/2013 10:32 AM

Tunisia security blocks salafi conference
KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) -- Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country.... 5/19/2013 10:17 AM

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:... 5/19/2013 10:14 AM

'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.... 5/19/2013 9:53 AM

Coens' folk revival 'Llewyn' serenades Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician.... 5/19/2013 9:30 AM

Devilish Dutch drama 'Borgman' debuts at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- There's something nasty lurking in the woods - and inside the characters' heads - in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry "Borgman."... 5/19/2013 9:12 AM

Kenya police kill "terror couple"
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.... 5/19/2013 8:20 AM

Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities Sunday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said.... 5/19/2013 8:17 AM

Saudi vegetable seller dies from self-immolation
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died.... 5/19/2013 7:51 AM

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.... 5/19/2013 7:33 AM

Chinese premier visits India to boost ties
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.... 5/19/2013 10:39 AM

Iran's Guard warns against post-election turmoil
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned that his forces will be on watch for possible unrest after next month's presidential election, calling the outcome "unpredictable" and sending the strongest message yet against any attempts to revive street protests, media reported Sunday.... 5/19/2013 7:00 AM

North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said.... 5/19/2013 6:57 AM

Chinese boat owner says NKoreans detained his crew
BEIJING (AP) -- Unidentified North Koreans have seized a Chinese fishing boat and its 16 crew members and have demanded a ransom, Chinese state media and the boat owner say.... 5/19/2013 6:52 AM

UN chief hopes for Syria conference in early June
MOSCOW (AP) -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early June.... 5/19/2013 6:31 AM

Pakistan holds re-vote in Karachi despite killing
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan is holding a repeat election in an upmarket area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging.... 5/19/2013 5:48 AM

Second Vietnamese TV provider drops CNN and BBC
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese.... 5/19/2013 5:37 AM

Death toll in collapsed Indonesia mine rises to 6
TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers have pulled another body from a collapsed facility at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the death toll to six.... 5/19/2013 3:14 AM

Cannes helps actors Bejo and Rahim cross borders
CANNES, France (AP) -- The magic and glamour of Cannes can be hard to spot on a day when rain is lashing the palm trees, roiling the gray Mediterranean and pooling in puddles along the Croisette.... 5/19/2013 3:05 AM