Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Scattered street demonstrations popped up around Brazil early Wednesday as protesters continued their collective cry against the low-quality public services they receive in exchange for high taxes and high prices.... 6/19/2013 11:31 AM

Correction: Jordan-Syria-War Games story
ZARQA, Jordan (AP) -- In a June 18 story about U.S.-led war games in Jordan, The Associated Press reported erroneously the organization that employs Tawfiq Hennawi. He works for the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, not the International Committee of the Red Cross.... 6/19/2013 11:28 AM

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 - officials at Clarence House have 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 ... 6/19/2013 11:28 AM

Obama warns EU over high youth unemployment
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama raised the prospect Wednesday that Europe might need to adjust its economic policies to tackle high youth unemployment and make sure that some countries don't "lose a generation."... 6/19/2013 11:26 AM

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 11:22 AM

Iceland: 'informal talks' about Snowden asylum
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials in Iceland about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country, officials there said Wednesday.... 6/19/2013 11:19 AM

Egypt top cleric: Protests against Morsi permitted
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top Muslim cleric says peaceful protests against the president are permitted, dismissing declarations by Islamist hard-liners that those behind protests planned for June 30 are heretics.... 6/19/2013 11:14 AM

Myanmar court convicts Muslims over violence
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A court in Myanmar has found two Muslim women guilty of sparking a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the country, one of them by bumping into a Buddhist novice monk.... 6/19/2013 11:14 AM

Dolce and Gabbana convicted of tax evasion
MILAN (AP) -- A Milan court has convicted the designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion.... 6/19/2013 11:09 AM

16 dead: Militants infiltrate UN's Somalia office
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Seven al-Qaida-linked gunmen detonated a pick-up truck rigged with explosives at the gate of the U.N. compound in Somalia's capital Wednesday, launching a bombs-and-gunfire assault that saw militants pour into the complex, killing at least nine people, including three foreigners, officials said.... 6/19/2013 10:57 AM

UAE charges 30 suspects with plotting coup
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The United Arab Emirates broadened its crackdown on perceived threats and risked deepening its rift with Egypt on Wednesday with plans to bring 30 Egyptian and UAE suspects to trial for alleged coup plotting linked to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.... 6/19/2013 10:49 AM

Todashev's body brought to Russia for burial
GROZNY, Russia (AP) -- The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for burial.... 6/19/2013 10:39 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 10:37 AM

Japan formally OKs new nuke safety requirements
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster in a move critics charge is too hasty.... 6/19/2013 10:19 AM

China, Vietnam agree to set up hotline
BEIJING (AP) -- China and Vietnam agreed on Wednesday to set up a hotline to resolve fishing incidents in disputed South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tensions between the two ideological allies.... 6/19/2013 10:16 AM

Paris returns stretch of riverbank to pedestrians
PARIS (AP) -- Paris has given back a stretch of its riverbank to pedestrians - and just in time for summer.... 6/19/2013 10:13 AM

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 10:11 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 10:08 AM

Floods close Lourdes pilgrimage site in Pyrenees
LOURDES, France (AP) -- Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels.... 6/19/2013 10:06 AM

Syria troops fight rebels near Shiite shrine
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters clashed Wednesday with rebel forces south of a Damascus suburb that is home to a major Shiite Muslim shrine, in an attempt to secure the area surrounding the revered site, activists said.... 6/19/2013 9:50 AM