Associated Press: World
- Natalie Portman snubs 'Jewish Nobel,' triggers backlash
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 12:51 PMJERUSALEM (AP) -- Actress Natalie Portman has snubbed a prestigious prize known as the "Jewish Nobel" because of "extreme distress" over recent events in Israel, triggering an angry backlash Friday from some in the country's political establishment....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Case of Jewish boy taken by pope flares over doctored memoir
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 08:34 AMVATICAN CITY (AP) -- It's an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptized....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South Africa's leader cuts short UK visit after protests
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 04:22 AMJOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa's president has cut short a visit to Britain to return home and deal with violent protests in a provincial capital....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Argentine women see legal abortion closer than ever
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 12:25 AMBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Pushed by a wave of demonstrations by women's groups, the homeland of Pope Francis seems closer than ever to legalizing abortion....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Moon faces tough challenges ahead of summit with Kim
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 10:04 PMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The meeting next week between the leaders of the rival Koreas will be the ultimate test of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's belief that his nation should lead international efforts to deal with North Korea....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK mulls plan to ban plastic straws and cut waste
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 12:38 PMLONDON (AP) -- Britain's government wants to take action to ban plastic straws, drink stirrers and cotton buds - and is urging other Commonwealth nations to follow suit....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California reaches deal on National Guard border mission
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 09:51 AMSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California has reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Russia joins bid to win compensation over US metals tariffs
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 07:18 AMGENEVA (AP) -- Russia has joined the European Union, India and China in demanding compensation from the United States for its tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2,000 Kachin trapped by Myanmar fighting lack food, medicine
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 01:53 AMBANGKOK (AP) -- Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trade issues expose the limits of Trump-Abe 'bromance'
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 12:47 AMPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He's met with the billionaire businessman more than any other world leader, and he's Trump's second-most frequent caller....
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- Zimbabwe's Mugabe summoned over alleged diamond looting
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 08:27 AMHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean parliamentary committee is summoning former leader Robert Mugabe to explain past comments on alleged diamond looting - the first time a public institution has called him to account for such claims made during his 37-year rule....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Large area of Berlin center evacuated for WWII bomb disposal
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 04:51 AMBERLIN (AP) -- Berlin police were evacuating thousands of people from a central area of the German capital Friday and shutting down the main train station in preparation for the removal of an unexploded World War II bomb found during recent construction work....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indonesia's Aceh canes couples for public shows of affection
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 02:58 AMBANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province on Friday caned several unmarried couples for showing affection in public and two women for prostitution before an enthusiastic audience of hundreds....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As doors close in the US, China's Huawei shifts to Europe
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 11:52 PMSHENZHEN, China (AP) -- As trade disputes simmer, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the No. 3 smartphone brand, is shifting its growth efforts toward Europe and Asia in the face of mounting obstacles in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US easing rules on sales of armed drones, other weaponry
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 01:12 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration moved Thursday to make it easier for U.S. defense contractors to sell armed drones and other conventional weapons to foreign governments....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ancient coins, bracelets looted from Romania return home
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 11:23 AMBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Coins and bracelets from the 1st century that were looted from western Romania years ago and smuggled out of the country were put on display Thursday after a joint investigation with Austria brought them back home....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trade issues expose the limits of Trump-Abe 'bromance'
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 08:13 AMPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He's met with the billionaire businessman more than any other world leader, and he is Trump's second-most frequent caller....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trade issues expose the limits of Trump-Abe 'bromance'
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 05:42 AMPALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe courted the new American president with a golden driver not long after Donald Trump won the White House. He's met with the billionaire businessman more than any other world leader, and he's Trump's second-most frequent caller....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Corruption watchdog: G-20 moving slowly against tax havens
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 12:18 AMBERLIN (AP) -- An international corruption watchdog group says two years after the Panama Papers revealed how the rich have stashed wealth in shell companies, the world's Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations have made only slow progress improving the legal tools to ensure transparency....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AP Explains: The fiscal hijinks of North Korea's new budget
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 09:35 PMTOKYO (AP) -- Imagine a national budget that reflects steady growth, gives a healthy boost to science and technology while reserving big slices of the overall pie to defense and social spending.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Police remove students from occupied Paris university site
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 09:08 AMPARIS (AP) -- French police removed students from a Paris university building Friday that had been occupied for a month to protest admission changes that also are causing turmoil at other campuses....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Basque militant group ETA: 'We really are sorry'
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 03:40 AMMADRID (AP) -- Basque militant group ETA says it is sorry for the pain that its armed campaign for Basque independence has caused, and vows not to return to violence....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Koreas set up hotline between leaders ahead of summit
Friday - 04/20/2018 - 04:14 AMSEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea installed a telephone hotline between their leaders Friday as they prepare for a rare summit next week aimed at resolving the nuclear standoff with Pyongyang....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Woman's win of nursing home money a rarity in aging Japan
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 09:59 PMTOKYO (AP) -- When her stay at the glamorous Grancreer residence turned into a nightmare of disrupted sleep and difficulties with the staff, retired harpist Yumi Makino opted out, and after a two-year legal battle got her deposit money back in a rare victory over a big real estate company....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FBI offers $1M for info on US reporter missing in Syria
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 02:49 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal authorities for the first time are offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to an American journalist who has been missing in Syria for more than five years....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Turkey's weak opposition scrambles to challenge Erdogan
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 11:21 AMANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- One party leader is in jail. Another doesn't have a candidate. A third might face eligibility issues for her party. Turkey's weak opposition is scrambling to mount a meaningful challenge against strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with just nine weeks to prepare for snap elections....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Grueling Marathon des Sables completes another edition
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 07:15 AMMERZOUGA, Morocco (AP) -- Under a hot desert sun and with the desolation of the Sahara all around, about 1,000 competitors from 50 countries took part in this year's Marathon des Sables, or Marathon of the Sands....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: AP source: Pompeo, Kim discussed held Americans
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 05:08 AMWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the United States and North Korea (all times local):...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Calif. governor says deal reached on National Guard mission
Thursday - 04/19/2018 - 02:49 AMSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers, Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US manufacturers seek relief from steel and aluminum tariffs
Wednesday - 04/18/2018 - 04:35 PMWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported aluminum and steel are disrupting business for hundreds of American companies that buy those metals, and many are pressing for relief....
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