14 killed in new anti-terror Philippine offensive
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least 14 Philippine marines and Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a clash in a new U.S.-backed offensive aimed at rescuing six foreign and Filipino hostages and stopping the al-Qaida-linked gunmen from staging more kidnappings in the country's south, a military commander said Sunday.... 5/25/2013 11:56 PM

Suspected rebels kill 17, wound 24 in east India
NEW DELHI (AP) -- About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police said.... 5/25/2013 10:13 PM

Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a victorious decade, "won not by a government but by the people."... 5/25/2013 9:09 PM

Bill Clinton, other celebs at Vienna AIDS charity
VIENNA (AP) -- Cross-dressers, half-naked revelers, a famed fashion designer, entertainment icons and a former U.S. president shared the spotlight in the Austrian capital for the Life Ball, a night of hedonistic revelry for a good cause - the funding of AIDS research.... 5/25/2013 7:18 PM

Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in final on Robben goal
LONDON (AP) -- Arjen Robben found redemption at Wembley Stadium.... 5/25/2013 7:10 PM

Niger president says attackers came from Libya
NIAMEY, Mali (AP) -- Niger's president says suicide bombers who carried out simultaneous attacks on a military installation and a French-run uranium mine came from southern Libya.... 5/25/2013 6:49 PM

Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
LONDON (AP) -- Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.... 5/25/2013 5:43 PM

Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
CANNES, France (AP) -- James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality.... 5/25/2013 5:43 PM

French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris
PARIS (AP) -- A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and the government said it was trying to determine if there were any links to the brutal killing of a British soldier by suspected Islamic extremists.... 5/25/2013 5:36 PM

Polanski laments leveling of sexes as 'idiotic'
CANNES, France (AP) -- Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"... 5/25/2013 4:51 PM

Pistorius investigation to be finished by August
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The police investigation into Oscar Pistorius' killing of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day won't be completed until August, prosecutors said Saturday, ahead of the double-amputee Olympian's first court appearance in nearly four months.... 5/25/2013 4:31 PM

Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "dark period."... 5/25/2013 4:11 PM

Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan.... 5/25/2013 4:06 PM

Tilda Swinton brings erudite vampires to Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) -- Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre.... 5/25/2013 3:53 PM

Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize
CANNES, France (AP) -- An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.... 5/25/2013 3:52 PM

Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and another calling on him to resign.... 5/25/2013 3:41 PM

Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been assassinated in the past.... 5/25/2013 3:14 PM

Egypt top court rules against religious slogans
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning.... 5/25/2013 2:56 PM

Turkish couples kiss in subway in protest
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public.... 5/25/2013 2:54 PM

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NEW DELHI (AP) -- Police: Suspected Maoist rebels kill 16 people in attack in eastern India.... 5/25/2013 2:47 PM