Brazil commission says abusers could be tried
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under Brazil's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial.... 5/21/2013 4:17 PM

Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew more than a year ago.... 5/21/2013 4:13 PM

Top figures barred from Iran's June ballot
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of reformers.... 5/21/2013 4:12 PM

Saudi executes 5 Yemenis, displays bodies
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis convicted of crimes and displayed their bodies in public as a deterrent for future criminals, the government said.... 5/21/2013 4:07 PM

Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France (AP) -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:... 5/21/2013 3:51 PM

Struggling Spain offers engineers to Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- Spain's development minister is urging Brazil to hire some of the engineers that her own economy doesn't have room for.... 5/21/2013 3:29 PM

Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.... 5/21/2013 3:21 PM

Troops flood western Mexico to protect towns
COALCOMAN, Mexico (AP) -- Mexico's top security officials gathered Tuesday in the western state of Michoacan to launch a campaign with thousands of army troops to rescue towns besieged, sometimes for months, by the powerful Knights Templar drug cartel.... 5/21/2013 3:17 PM

Egypt troops in Sinai sweep mistakenly hit funeral
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian troops and police mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said, in the opening salvo of a sweep searching for security personnel kidnapped by suspected militants.... 5/21/2013 3:14 PM

Does France have right plan to revive its economy?
PARIS (AP) -- The man charged with reviving France's shrinking economy and attracting businesses to invest here is gaining a reputation for doing the opposite.... 5/21/2013 3:08 PM

Gandhi's 'blood sample' fails to sell in Britain
LONDON (AP) -- Dozens of Mohandas Gandhi's personal items have been sold at an auction, but a sample of blood purportedly from the Indian independence leader didn't draw high enough bids.... 5/21/2013 2:42 PM

Warsaw ghetto insurgent Boruch Spiegel dies at 93
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Boruch Spiegel, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied Poland, has died. He was 93.... 5/21/2013 2:26 PM

Syria opposition signals tough line on peace talks
BEIRUT (AP) -- Despite recent rebel setbacks in Syria's civil war, the main opposition bloc signaled a tough line Tuesday on attending possible peace talks with President Bashar Assad's regime.... 5/21/2013 2:24 PM

Algerian president leaves Paris military hospital
PARIS (AP) -- Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility.... 5/21/2013 2:22 PM

US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
HAVANA (AP) -- The meeting on a sunny Havana square was a little bit revolutionary for Cuba's revolution. And for U.S. diplomacy as well.... 5/21/2013 2:10 PM

2 Moroccans tried for homosexuality get 4 months
RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.... 5/21/2013 1:55 PM

Thousands of women protest death in Togo
LOME, Togo (AP) -- Thousands of women have taken to the streets in Togo to protest the death of an opposition figure who had been jailed.... 5/21/2013 1:49 PM

Palestinian group: Ruler rights abuses increasing
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- A Palestinian report shows human rights abuses by the rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza are on the rise.... 5/21/2013 1:43 PM

Israeli peace negotiator: Stalemate bad for Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's chief peace negotiator said Tuesday that the current stalemate with the Palestinians is harmful for Israel, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant talks.... 5/21/2013 1:42 PM

Internet cable from Cuba to Jamaica comes online
HAVANA (AP) -- A new branch of the Venezuela-to-Cuba undersea fiber-optic cable has reportedly come online, linking the island to nearby Jamaica, increasing Cuba's potential international communications bandwidth and providing a backup for the main line.... 5/21/2013 1:41 PM