Banned Iranian director Rasoulof coming to Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film.... 5/23/2013 11:55 AM

Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month.... 5/23/2013 11:53 AM

Violence in Somalia scares investors, aid workers
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- 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.... 5/23/2013 11:38 AM

UN: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus
GENEVA (AP) -- A new coronavirus has now claimed 22 lives worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases, mostly in Saudi Arabia, World Health Organization officials said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 11:24 AM

Togo police fire tear gas at protesters
LOME, Togo (AP) -- 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.... 5/23/2013 11:24 AM

Jewelry stolen a 2nd time during Cannes festival
PARIS (AP) -- A second jewelry theft has been reported in the French Riviera during the Cannes Film Festival, this time an expensive necklace.... 5/23/2013 11:20 AM

Russian court denies Pussy Riot's Alekhina parole
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.... 5/23/2013 11:17 AM

Massive fuel-depot fire breaks out in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- A massive fire has broken out at a fuel depot in Rio de Janeiro.... 5/23/2013 11:16 AM

Czech police seek US man suspected of 4 murders
BRNO, Czech Republic (AP) -- 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.... 5/23/2013 11:16 AM

Jerry Lewis repeats his distaste for female comics
CANNES, France (AP) -- Ladies? Don't make him laugh.... 5/23/2013 11:15 AM

UN chief visits Goma, Congo
GOMA, Congo (AP) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that security must go hand-in-hand with development in the troubled eastern city of Goma on Thursday, arriving just hours after a rebel group fighting government forces said they would respect a cease-fire to allow the visit to proceed.... 5/23/2013 11:11 AM

2 brown bears rescued from captivity in Kosovo
MRAMOR, Kosovo (AP) -- 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.... 5/23/2013 11:08 AM

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.... 5/23/2013 11:06 AM

Markets roiled by Nikkei's 7.3 percent slide
LONDON (AP) -- Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago.... 5/23/2013 11:04 AM

Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
HAVANA (AP) -- The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was detained.... 5/23/2013 11:02 AM

Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) -- Writer Chinua Achebe is being remembered in Nigeria as a fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure.... 5/23/2013 10:56 AM

AP Interview: Syria conflict uproots Palestinians
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- 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.... 5/23/2013 10:51 AM

UK soldier slaying suspects had been investigated
LONDON (AP) -- Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.... 5/23/2013 10:44 AM

Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest _ for now
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.... 5/23/2013 10:27 AM

26 killed in 2 simultaneous car bombs in Niger
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France.... 5/23/2013 10:24 AM