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Gunmen in Afghan uniforms kill NATO troop
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says two gunmen wearing Afghan National Army uniforms turned their weapons on NATO troops, killing one member of the U.S.-led coalition. A coalition statement said...
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Heavy rains submerge Philippine capital, killing 9
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital, triggered a landslide that killed nine people and sent emergency crews scrambling Tuesday to rescue tens...
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Syrian rebels low on guns as regime strikes Aleppo
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels were running low on ammunition and guns Friday as government forces tried to consolidate their control over Aleppo, the country’s largest city, which has been a deadly...
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Afghan police officer kills 3 US Marines
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan police officer shot and killed three U.S. Marines after sharing a meal with them before dawn Friday and then fled into the desolate darkness of southern Afghanistan,...
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7 American troops die in Afghan helicopter crash
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven American troops and four Afghans died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash on Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the NATO military coalition said. The Taliban claimed their...
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Afghans: Foreign spies at root of insider attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government blamed foreign spy agencies for a rising number of killings where government soldiers and policemen have gunned down their international partners, and...
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2 US gov’t employees said hurt in Mexico shooting
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican Navy says federal police shot at a vehicle carrying two U.S. government employees after the vehicle came under attack from unidentified gunmen. The shooting appears to...
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Family feud eyed in grisly killings in French Alps
ANNECY, France (AP) — French investigators focused Friday on a feud between brothers as they searched for a motive in the slayings of a British-Iraqi family vacationing in the French Alps. A French...
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Mexico navy: Zetas cartel leader apparently killed
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Top Zetas drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano has apparently been killed in a firefight with marines in the northern border state of Coahuila, the Mexican navy says. If confirmed,...
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Turkey: Syrian plane was carrying ammunition
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Escalating tensions with Russia, Turkey defended its forced landing of a Syrian passenger jet en route from Moscow to Damascus, saying Thursday it was carrying Russian ammunition...
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Bersani wins Italy primary, heads to general vote
ROME (AP) — Pier Luigi Bersani, the head of Italy’s main center-left Democratic Party, won a runoff primary Sunday to become the main center-left candidate for Italy’s 2013 general elections — a vote...
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Berlin elephants feast on tasty Christmas trees
BERLIN (AP) — Elephants at the Berlin Zoo finally got a chance to tuck into their Christmas dinner: A feast of donated pine trees. The zoo treated its elephants and some of its other animals to the...
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Pakistani girl shot by Taliban leaves UK hospital
LONDON (AP) — Three months after she was shot in the head for daring to say girls should be able to get an education, a 15-year-old Pakistani hugged her nurses and smiled as she walked out of a...
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France’s Bardot threatens exile over elephants
PARIS (AP) — Sex symbol-turned-animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot is threatening to join actor Gerard Depardieu in Russian exile unless France halts the scheduled euthanasia of two sick circus...
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Miss Congeniality pleads guilty in Canada riots
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Police had an easy time identifying one suspect in Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riots: a former Miss Congeniality beauty pageant winner. Sophie Laboissonniere, who was 20...
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Depardieu skips drunk driving hearing in France
PARIS (AP) — In the last three days, Gerard Depardieu met with Vladimir Putin to get Russian citizenship, got a prime seat at soccer’s biggest annual gala in Switzerland and dashed off to Montenegro to...
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France: 3 Kurdish women ‘executed’ in Paris
PARIS (AP) — Three Kurdish women, including one of the founders of a militant group battling Turkish troops since 1984, were “executed” at a Kurdish center in Paris, the interior minister said...
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Bomb, drone attack kill 17 people in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers killed 12 people in southwest Pakistan on Thursday, while five suspected militants died in a U.S. drone strike in the country’s northwest,...
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Radical Islamists hold on to gains in Mali
Radical Islamists held on to a city in central Mali Friday after sending the Malian military reeling in retreat. With the militants showing the capability to press even further into government-held...
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Syria talks end in Geneva without solution
International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi expressed little hope for a political solution for Syria anytime soon after meeting Friday with senior Russian and U.S. diplomats trying to bring an end to the civil...
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