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Israel's Peres calls for return to peace talks
Israeli President Shimon Peres says it is possible for Israelis and Palestinians to overcome differences and skepticism over peacemaking. He says it is time to restart serious negotiations and conclude a peace treaty that has long eluded the two sides in the conflict. "We shouldn't lose the opportunity because it ...
Trailblazing Israeli electric car company to fold
Israel's trailblazing electric car company Better Place says it has reached the end of the road. The company announced Sunday that it was filing for liquidation, marking a stunning end to an ambitious plan aimed at revolutionizing the auto industry by reducing the world's dependency on oil. Perhaps Israel's best ...
Car bomb, other attacks kill 5 in Iraqi city
Officials say a car bomb has hit a patrol in Mosul, one of three attacks in the northern Iraqi city that left five dead. A police officer says the car bomb went off early Sunday morning at a house as a joint army-police unit was conducting door-to-door searches, killing two ...
2 rockets hit Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold
Rockets slammed Sunday into two southern Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria's civil war is increasingly moving to Lebanon. Lebanon's sectarian divide mirrors that of Syria, and Lebanese armed factions have taken sides in their neighbor's civil war. One ...
Suspected rebels kill 28, wound 24 in east India
Officials reacted with outrage Sunday to an audacious attack by about 200 suspected Maoist rebels who set off a roadside bomb and opened fire on a convoy carrying Indian ruling Congress party leaders and members in an eastern state, killing 28 people and wounding 24 others. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ...
Iran fields 'massive' number of missile launchers
An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers. The Sunday report by Fars quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian forces to "crush the enemy" with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles. ...
AP PHOTOS: Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in final
Bayern Munich defeated German rival Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the Champions League final Saturday night, ending four years of frustration for Bayern in Europe's biggest soccer tournament. Arjen Robben ran onto Franck Ribery's backheeled flick in the penalty area and put the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller in the 89th ...
Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule
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." This year's election will determine whether Fernandez ...
Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321. A corrected version of the story is below: Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival At the Cannes ...
Raw: French Soldier Stabbed in Throat Near Paris
A French soldier has been stabbed outside Paris. France's military spokesman says the soldier was wounded in the throat but his life is not in danger. (May 25)
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