KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan president: No peace talks with the Taliban unless only Afghans involved, violence stops.... 6/19/2013 7:39 AM

Obama: Friction in Afghan peace talks no surprise
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama says it's no surprise that there's friction in early efforts to launch peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan's government.... 6/19/2013 7:33 AM

UK soldiers' families can sue over Iraq deaths
LONDON (AP) -- The families of several British soldiers killed or injured in Iraq can sue the government for failing to protect them, the country's highest court ruled Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 7:31 AM

Social-network gaffes plague Japanese politicians
TOKYO (AP) -- On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion.... 6/19/2013 7:30 AM

Egypt Islamists blame violence on opposition
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's most powerful Muslim group has blamed the secular and liberal opposition for a wave of violence over the appointment of new Islamist governors.... 6/19/2013 7:27 AM

Zimbabwe's president goes back to court on polls
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's highest court says it has received an application from the president's party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks.... 6/19/2013 7:22 AM

Turkish official approves 'standing man' protest
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's deputy prime minister gave a nod of approval to a new form of peaceful resistance that is spreading through Turkey on Wednesday as police were questioning dozens of people rounded up in police raids.... 6/19/2013 7:20 AM

Obama: NSA programs have saved lives
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama says lives have been saved by sweeping surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.... 6/19/2013 7:13 AM

Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament - people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption.... 6/19/2013 7:11 AM

Air France-KLM orders 25 wide-body Airbus A350s
LE BOURGET, France (AP) -- Air France-KLM ordered 25 Airbus A350 jets on Wednesday, saying the wide-body plane that flew for the first time last week will be central to its plan to expand long-haul flights after years of struggling against discount carriers in Europe.... 6/19/2013 7:06 AM

Greek government back in talks to end TV crisis
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's governing coalition parties are to meet 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 7:04 AM

UK banking commission urges better standards
LONDON (AP) -- British bankers could soon be facing harsher penalties for behaving badly.... 6/19/2013 7:00 AM

Syria state TV says explosion hits military depot
BEIRUT (AP) -- An explosion at a military depot outside Syria's coastal city of Latakia left six people lightly injured on Wednesday, state television said.... 6/19/2013 6:58 AM

UN chief warns of new peacekeeping threats
BEIJING (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world body's peacekeeping efforts face growing dangers from non-traditional threats such as suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices.... 6/19/2013 6:56 AM

Markets steady as investors ready for Fed
LONDON (AP) -- Markets were fairly flat-footed ahead of a keenly awaited policy statement from the U.S. Federal Reserve.... 6/19/2013 6:55 AM

Bribery trial of former Finmeccanica CEO opens
MILAN (AP) -- The former head of Italian aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica , accused by prosecutors of making bribery part of the company culture, went on trial Wednesday for his alleged role in the payment of bribes to secure a crucial 560 million euro ($670 million) helicopter contract in India.... 6/19/2013 6:41 AM

Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war.... 6/19/2013 6:35 AM

Bomb blasts, gunmen attack UN office in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 6:30 AM

UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people
GENEVA (AP) -- The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 6:28 AM

Malaysia budget airport launch pushed to May 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The opening of a new airport to accommodate budget carriers has been delayed until next year because of design changes and other construction setbacks, Malaysia's airport operator says.... 6/19/2013 6:26 AM