IMF calls for urgent steps on Spain unemployment
MADRID (AP) -- Spain faces the prospect of high unemployment and sluggish growth lasting years unless the country and Europe take "urgent action" to slash the nation's crippling 27 percent unemployment rate and free frozen credit to businesses so they can expand, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 2:44 PM

Former Hungarian prime minister Gyula Horn dies
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Gyula Horn, a former Hungarian prime minister who played a key role in opening the Iron Curtain, has died at the age of 80.... 6/19/2013 2:41 PM

Critics hail Daniel Radcliffe's latest stage turn
LONDON (AP) -- Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan."... 6/19/2013 2:35 PM

US and Cuba to resume migration talks
HAVANA (AP) -- The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said Wednesday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the Cold War enemies.... 6/19/2013 2:34 PM

World powers to meet on Syrian rebel demands
PARIS (AP) -- World powers will meet this weekend in Qatar to decide on how to answer a list of requests for help from Syrian rebels, a French diplomat said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 2:33 PM

Bombings kill 7 people in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bomb attacks in Iraq have killed seven people, including a local political leader and four of his relatives, authorities said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 2:31 PM

Study: Half of Canada's aboriginal children poor
TORONTO (AP) -- Half of Canada's aboriginal children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics released Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 2:29 PM

Protesters out again in Brazilian cities
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and rising prices.... 6/19/2013 2:17 PM

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama ditches jacket
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama should have felt right at home in his overnight visit to Germany, with summer weather that felt more like Washington than Berlin.... 6/19/2013 2:13 PM

Top Charles Taylor ally found in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- A notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone's capital city, according to United Nations experts.... 6/19/2013 2:04 PM

Italy's first back minister receives death threats
ROME (AP) -- Italy's first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base.... 6/19/2013 1:59 PM

Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
BERLIN (AP) -- Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."... 6/19/2013 1:56 PM

Greek government back in talks to end TV crisis
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's governing coalition parties met for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT.... 6/19/2013 1:38 PM

Markets drift as investors ready for Fed
LONDON (AP) -- Markets drifted lower Wednesday ahead of a keenly awaited policy statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve.... 6/19/2013 1:31 PM

Tunisia arrests Muslim cleric for hardline sermon
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives.... 6/19/2013 1:28 PM

Monsoon floods kill 102 in India, strand pilgrims
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially.... 6/19/2013 1:24 PM

Top UK court overturns sanctions on Iranian bank
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Supreme Court has quashed sanctions against an Iranian bank penalized over its alleged links to Iran's nuclear weapons program.... 6/19/2013 1:18 PM

Iran's electoral watchdog approves election result
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV is reporting the country's election overseer, the Guardian Council, has approved Friday's presidential election result, affirming a first-round victory by a relative moderate.... 6/19/2013 1:07 PM

Palace sheds some light on Kate's baby plans
LONDON (AP) -- With Prince William and the former Kate Middleton expecting their first child in mid-July - and much of the world interested in the birth of a future monarch - the royals' office has released some of the couple's plans, although many details are still being kept private. Kate has made several public appearances recently but is expected to keep a low profile in the final weeks of her pregnancy. Here is the latest news about the infant who will, upon entering the world, be ... 6/19/2013 1:04 PM

Japan formally OKs new nuclear safety requirements
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants on Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster in a move critics charged was too hasty.... 6/19/2013 12:54 PM