In this handout picture taken by a custom officer on June 28, 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic a skeleton of a Tiger is on display on ground. Officials say customs authorities have seized the skeletons of two endangered tigers at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport that were meant for the black market in the Far East. Customs Office spokeswoman Sarka Miskovska says a sniffer dog found the skeletons hidden in two loudspeakers during a routine check June 26. Miskovska declined to give further details Thursday July 11, 2013, citing an ongoing investigation. She says the Czech Environmental Inspectorate is working to determine where the tigers come from. .

Tiger skeletons seized at Prague airport

Czech officials say airport customs authorities have seized the skeletons of two endangered tigers believed to be destined for the black market in the Far East.

Kremlin recipe for avoiding leaks: use typewriters

Got an old typewriter in your garage? Call the Kremlin, they need some.

A striking Municipal police officer on motorcycle holds a Greek flag during a protest, in central Athens, on Thursday, July 11, 2013. Public sector unionists and municipality workers staged a protest Thursday against new austerity measures that will push thousands of public sector workers out of work or placed in a mandatory transfer program.

Demonstrators blockade city hall in north Greece

Protesting municipal workers blockaded the entrance of city hall in Greece's second largest city Thursday, amid mounting anger against new austerity cuts that will affect thousands of public sector workers. Photo Gallery Available

A demonstrator, wearing a mask in the likeness of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, waves from a bus during a protest in front of the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, July 11, 2013. Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked off their jobs on Thursday in a peaceful nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public services. Metalworkers, transportation and construction workers as well as teachers and civil servants adhered to the "Day of Struggle" organized by Brazil's biggest trade union federations.

Thousands of workers on strike in Brazil

Tens of thousands of workers across Brazil walked off their jobs on Thursday in a mostly peaceful nationwide strike demanding better working conditions and improved public services in Latin America's biggest nation. 1373582277 Photo Gallery Available

A woman whistles during a protest by Portuguese nurses unions outside the Portuguese Health Ministry in Lisbon, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. The protest marked the end of a two days strike against cuts in the Portuguese health system, the increase in weekly working hours from 35 to 40 and other austerity measures.

Portugal crisis abates, but expected to return

Portugal's immediate political crisis is contained but the country's president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, may have inadvertently pushed it further into political uncertainty and the possibility of another international bailout. Photo Gallery Available

This citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows the 13th-century mosque of Khalid Ibn al-Walid, which was damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling, in Homs province, Syria, Thursday, July 11, 2013. Heavy fighting has been taking place around the mosque and government troops have heavily shelled the area in the past days in the central city of Homs.

Opposition condemns Syrian rebel blockade

Syria's main opposition coalition Thursday condemned a rebel blockade of government-held districts in the contested northern city of Aleppo, issuing a rare statement of criticism against fighters who reportedly caused severe food shortages at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. 1373572881 Photo Gallery Available

Street-traders sell pictures of Nelson Mandela that alternate images depending on the angle they are viewed at, in front of the wall of get-well messages and flowers left outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Thursday, July 11, 2013. Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment and the 94-year-old's condition remains critical but stable after more than a month in the hospital, South Africa's president said Wednesday.

Nelson Mandela's friends lament his decline

Ahmed Kathrada, a warhorse of the anti-apartheid struggle, was allowed just a few minutes at the hospital bedside of his critically ill comrade, Nelson Mandela. It was, he said, a traumatic experience to see the former president, physically robust during their prison years together, in such a fragile state. Photo Gallery Available

Guinea sets Sept. date for legislative election

A presidential decree read on state television announced that Guinea's much-delayed legislative election will be held on Sept. 24.

NKorea withdraws offer to discuss reunions, tours

North Korea on Thursday withdrew offers for talks with South Korea on reunions of separated families and resuming tours to a mountain resort, Seoul said.

NKorea withdraws offer to discuss reunions, tours

North Korea has withdrawn an offer for talks on reunions of separated Korean families and resuming tours to a North Korean mountain resort.

FILE In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, file photo a portrait of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in jail, is held by his mother Nataliya Magnitskaya, as she speaks during an interview with the AP in Moscow. The Senate is taking up legislation Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, that would end four-decade-old trade restrictions that are blocking U.S. businesses from enjoying the benefits of a more-open Russian market. Russian news agencies say on Thursday that a court in Moscow has found dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax evasion, concluding an unusual posthumous trial. Magnitsky died in prison of untreated pancreatitis in 2009, months after alleging that organized criminals colluded with corrupt Interior Ministry officials to claim a $230 million tax rebate through illegally obtained subsidiaries of Browder's Hermitage Capital investment company.

The dead aren't always excused from trial

The tax-evasion conviction of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky more than three years after his death in a Russian prison was the first under a 2011 Russian law allowing posthumous trials, but not the first time the dead have been put on trial. Photo Gallery Available

UK calls fraud investigators for security firm G4S

The British government said Thursday it was calling in fraud investigators after auditors found security giant G4S had overcharged by millions of pounds on contracts to monitor offenders using electronic tags.

ADDS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHALICE. Pope Francis celebrates a Mass with a chalice made from recycled wood from broken migrant boats, during his visit to the island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Monday July 8, 2013. Pope Francis traveled Monday to the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa to pray for migrants lost at sea, going to the farthest reaches of Italy to throw a wreath of flowers into the sea and celebrate Mass as yet another boatload of Eritrean migrants came ashore.

Pope criminalizes leaks, sex abuse in first laws

Pope Francis overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State on Thursday, criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing sexual violence, prostitution and possession of child pornography as crimes against children that can be punished by up to 12 years in prison.

More than 30,000 pistols seized in Oman transit

Oman police say they have seized more than 30,000 pistols aboard a tanker, which a newspaper reports was bound for neighboring Yemen.

Anti-abortion protesters holding placards walk through Ireland's capital, Dublin, in an anti-abortion protest Saturday, July 6, 2013. More than 35,000 activists marched to the parliament building to oppose Irish government plans to enact a bill legalizing terminations for women in life-threatening pregnancies. The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill is expected to be passed into law next week.

Deadlines come and go in Ireland's abortion vote

Ireland's lawmakers were supposed to have voted by now. Will they pass the country's first abortion bill Thursday? Photo Gallery Available

Judges release Greek hunger striker on bail

A Greek court has ruled that an anarchist who went on hunger strike after being held in pre-trial detention for nearly three years should be released on bail, a day after a doctor warned he was at the "final stage" of life.

Fresh fighting erupts in restive South Sudan state

Fresh violence erupted between two rival tribes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, officials said Thursday, giving no details of casualties in the region that is also the scene of an ongoing military assault against a rebel group.

FILE - This is a Wednesday, May 8, 2013. file photo of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, center, as he walks with the Leader of the Opposition Ed Milliband and other lawmakers from the House of Commons, through the central lobby towards the House of Lords to hear Britain's Queen Elizabeth II deliver the Queen's Speech to Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London . An independent watchdog has proposed an 11 percent pay raise for British members of parliament despite a cap on public sector salaries. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority announced recommendations Thursday July 11, 2013 to increase MPs' annual salaries to around 74,000 pounds ($112,000) while reducing pensions and additional expenses.

UK watchdog proposes parliamentary pay raise

An independent watchdog has proposed an 11 percent pay raise for British members of parliament despite a cap on public sector salaries. Photo Gallery Available

Iraq attacks leave 31 dead, mostly security forces

Insurgents in Iraq launched two days of bloody assaults at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that killed at least 31 people, most of them members of the security forces serving in restive Sunni-dominated areas, authorities said Thursday. 1373567774

Greek plane lands safely in Israel after emergency

A Greek plane landed safely in Tel Aviv without anyone being hurt on Thursday after issuing a rare mayday call on its approach to Israel's Ben Gurion international airport.

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