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French workers strike in protest of job cuts
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5.15.2008 : 7:54 pm
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PARIS -- Teachers, postal workers and other public servants staged a one-day strike and tens of thousands marched through French cities Thursday, a widespread protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's planned job cuts.
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Russia, Georgia joust over talk on Abkhazia base
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5.15.2008 : 5:29 pm
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Tensions between Georgia and Russia got a jolt Thursday when a news agency quoted the head of the Russian air force as saying he favored putting military bases in a breakaway region of this former Soviet republic.
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Italy arrests nearly 400 in security crackdown
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5.15.2008 : 4:52 pm
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ROME -- Italian police have arrested nearly 400 people -- mostly foreigners from Romania and North Africa -- in a weeklong crackdown on street crime and illegal immigration, authorities said Thursday.
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New Russian president vows to fund nuclear weapons
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5.15.2008 : 2:56 pm
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MOSCOW -- President Dmitry Medvedev made his debut as the commander in chief of Russia's armed forces Thursday, touring a missile base and promising to provide the funding needed for nuclear forces to counter global threats.
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Rights group attacks Dutch immigration policy
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5.15.2008 : 7:04 am
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A Dutch policy of forcing some would-be immigrants to pass a language and culture test before seeking a visa is discriminatory, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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4 suspected IRA dissidents arrested in NIreland
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5.15.2008 : 6:36 am
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Four suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents were arrested Thursday in connection with a bomb attack that wounded an officer earlier in the week, police said.
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Dalai Lama arrives for 5-day visit to Germany
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5.15.2008 : 6:11 am
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- The Dalai Lama arrived Thursday for a five-day tour of Germany, where his last visit sent German-Chinese relations into a spiral.
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Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing
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5.15.2008 : 2:52 am
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BEX, Switzerland -- A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.
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Russia launches cargo ship with supplies for space station
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5.14.2008 : 7:43 pm
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MOSCOW -- An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off Thursday with supplies, equipment and gifts for the international space station, an official said.
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Britain's Brown unveils new policies, ponders TV offer
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5.14.2008 : 7:20 pm
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LONDON -- Beleaguered Prime Minister Gordon Brown won a rare cheer from his own ranks after unveiling a raft of new policies Wednesday, part of move to reinvigorate his tenure that could also include appearing on a reality TV show.
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Blair's wife recalls disappointment at Bush's win
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5.14.2008 : 6:44 pm
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LONDON -- The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said she and her husband watched in distress as George Bush won the U.S. presidential election in 2000, according to extracts of her autobiography published Wednesday.
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Car bomb blamed on Basque militants kills policeman in Spain
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5.14.2008 : 5:41 pm
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LEGUTIANO, Spain -- Suspected Basque separatists bombed a village police barracks housing officers and their families on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding four. Spain's government described it as an attempted massacre.
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UK to hold inquiry into Iraqi's death in detention
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5.14.2008 : 4:46 pm
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LONDON -- A judge will lead a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian who died while in the custody of British soldiers, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
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Danish government in row over head scarves in court
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5.14.2008 : 4:29 pm
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark's government said Wednesday it will prepare legislation that would bar judges from wearing Islamic head scarves and religious symbols in court.
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Exhibit examines morbid pull of Jack the Ripper
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5.14.2008 : 4:27 pm
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LONDON -- As you leave a new exhibition about Jack the Ripper, you're invited to feel ashamed. "The endless obsession with Jack the Ripper glamorizes serial murderers and trivializes violence against women," says a placard near the exit from the exhibition at the Museum of London in Docklands.
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Berlusconi wins confidence vote in Italy
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5.14.2008 : 7:18 am
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ROME -- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's new government has easily won a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament. The result of the vote Wednesday was never in doubt because Berlusconi's conservatives have solid majorities in both houses of parliament. The Senate holds its vote of confidence on the government Thursday.
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Slain family found after Austrian man turns himself in
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5.14.2008 : 6:41 am
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VIENNA, Austria -- Investigators discovered the bodies of five people Wednesday after a man turned up at a Vienna police station saying he had killed his wife and daughter, authorities said.
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7 convicted in France-Iraq terror trial
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5.14.2008 : 6:40 am
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PARIS -- Seven men were convicted on terror charges Wednesday in Paris for helping funnel fighters to Iraq -- a case that exposed how the war has sucked in radical youths from Europe.
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Italian judge: Berlusconi to testify in CIA case
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5.14.2008 : 5:51 am
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MILAN, Italy -- An Italian judge ruled Wednesday that Premier Silvio Berlusconi will be called to testify in the trial of 26 Americans and several Italians charged with kidnapping a terror suspect during a CIA operation.
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British government documents accidentally seen
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5.13.2008 : 6:49 pm
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LONDON -- Two senior government ministers accidentally revealed confidential documents to sharp-eyed photographers on Tuesday -- including proposals for Britain's prime minister Gordon Brown to star in a reality television show.
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Reports: Acquittals overturn in Vatican Radio case
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5.13.2008 : 5:43 pm
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ROME -- Italy's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio transmission tower near Rome, news reports said Tuesday night.
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Ecuador offers its soil for release of FARC hostages
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5.13.2008 : 4:35 pm
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PARIS -- Ecuador is willing to allow the use of its territory for any release of hostages held by Colombia's main rebel group, President Rafael Correa said Tuesday.
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Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
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5.13.2008 : 4:07 pm
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VATICAN CITY -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.
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EU ministers discuss Myanmar aid
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5.13.2008 : 6:52 am
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana says officials must use all diplomatic means to convince Myanmar's military leaders to let in more emergency aid to cyclone victims.
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Norway's greenhouse gas emissions rise
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5.13.2008 : 6:33 am
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OSLO, Norway -- Officials say Norway's greenhouse gas emissions rose nearly 3 percent to record levels last year. The national statistics agency blames the pollution on the startup of a new natural gas plant in the Arctic.
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WTO: China must address rich-poor gap
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5.13.2008 : 6:18 am
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GENEVA -- China must address a widening gap between its rich and poor if Beijing wants a "harmonious society," the World Trade Organization will report in a trade review of the Asian nation, according to a copy obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
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Polish Holocaust hero dies at age 98
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5.12.2008 : 8:41 pm
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WARSAW, Poland -- Irena Sendler -- credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets -- died Monday, her family said. She was 98.
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Omagh bomb lawsuit moves to Dublin for testimony
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5.12.2008 : 6:29 pm
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- A British judge will preside in Ireland for the first time since the nation's independence 86 years ago, an Irish judge ruled Monday as an unprecedented lawsuit against IRA dissidents set more legal firsts.
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Putin: art should help strengthen state
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5.12.2008 : 6:16 pm
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled an exhibit from the art collection of a renowned Russian cellist Monday, a ceremony that reflected his continuing political influence even after stepping down as president.
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London police: Man stabbed on Oxford St.
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5.12.2008 : 5:31 pm
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LONDON -- A man was stabbed to death in broad daylight in London's main shopping district on Monday, police said. Police said the man was stabbed outside a fast food restaurant on Oxford Street.
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Putin names Cabinet, bringing loyalists from Kremlin
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5.12.2008 : 2:59 pm
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MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wasted no time in naming his new Cabinet on Monday, bringing in loyalists from the Kremlin in what was seen as an effort to shift the center of power to his new place of work.
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Serbia begins postelection talks
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5.12.2008 : 8:47 am
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BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia's nationalists brushed aside their pro-Western rivals' claim of victory in parliamentary elections and held talks Monday to see if they could muster support from other parties to form a government.
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UN food agency says rice prices surging in Myanmar
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5.12.2008 : 8:15 am
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ROME -- Rice prices in Myanmar's largest city have surged 50 percent since Cyclone Nargis, which killed tens of thousands of people and flooded entire rice-growing areas, a U.N. food agency said Monday.
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Human Rights Watch: Persecution after Uzbek violence
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5.12.2008 : 6:22 am
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MOSCOW -- Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an international rights group says in a report released Monday.
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Iraqi officials: Turkey hits Kurdish bases in Iraq
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5.12.2008 : 3:51 am
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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish jets struck suspected Kurdish rebel targets close to the border in northern Iraq, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Monday. There was no immediate confirmation of the airstrikes from the Turkish military, but if confirmed it would be the third straight night of air attacks on the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
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