Algerian editor accuses government of censorship

An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers.

An Egyptian border policeman shouts at the closed Rafah, Sinai border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip to protest the abduction of his colleagues last Thursday in northern Sinai, in Rafah, Egypt, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Rafah, the main crossing point into the Gaza Strip, was closed by policemen Friday, barring people from going in or out of the Palestinian territory. Scores of protesting Egyptian police have also shut down the Awja commercial border crossing with Israel Sunday. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT

Video shows kidnapped Egyptian security officers

Seven men purported to be the members of Egypt's security forces kidnapped by suspected militants last week appeared in a video posted online Sunday and urged the government to secure their release by meeting their captors' demands. Photo Gallery Available

Pope Francis greets the faithful in St. Peter Square at the Vatican, after celebrating a Pentecost mass, Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Pope: church should open up but follow teaching

Pope Francis is calling for renewal in the Catholic church as he wrapped up two days of mass gatherings in St. Peter's Square aimed at energizing the faithful. Photo Gallery Available

Russian TV: American accused of spying flies out

The U.S. Embassy employee accused of spying in Moscow flew out of Russia on Sunday, five days after he was ordered to leave the country, NTV television reported.

Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and will make sure the services uphold the country's new constitution which demands impartiality in their duties.

Israel disputes French TV claim on boy's death

Israel on Sunday completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel.

In this photo released by PT Freeport Indonesia, the Indonesian unit of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, rescuers gather inside a tunnel that collapsed on Tuesday morning as they continue the attempt to rescue trapped workers at Big Gossan mining area in Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/PT Freeport Indonesia) NO ARCHIVE, SALES

More bodies recovered in collapsed Indonesia mine

Rescuers recovered five more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 14, police said Monday. Fourteen other workers were still missing and feared dead. Photo Gallery Available

Mice return from a month in space

A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.

'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa

A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin and the Argentine state news agency Telam, in Damascus, Syria on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Assad said in the interview he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war.

Report: 23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria

Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said Monday. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group have been killed in the clashes. 1369041135 Photo Gallery Available

Kenya police kill "terror couple"

Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.

Factory owner barred from leaving Bangladesh

The High Court in Bangladesh's capital asked authorities Sunday to prevent the owner of a garment factory where 112 people died in a fire last year from leaving the country, a lawyer said.

Saudi vegetable seller dies from self-immolation

A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died.

A Tunisian security officer stands guard in the city of Kairouan where ultraconservative Islamic group, Ansar al-Shariah's, annual conference was supposed to be held, Sunday May 19, 2013. A massive Tunisian security presence has surrounded the country’s main religious center of Kairouan and prevented hardline Muslims from holding their annual gathering. Some 11,000 police surrounded the city this weekend and patrolled inside to prevent the conference from taking place because “of the threat it represented to security and public order.”

Tunisia security blocks salafi conference, 1 dead

Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country, prompting clashes with angry youths that resulted in one death. Photo Gallery Available

China asks NKorea to release fishing boat, crew

China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. 1369024309

Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meet in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, May 17, 2013.

UN chief hopes for Syria conference in early June

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early June.

Second Vietnamese TV provider drops CNN and BBC

A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese.

A South Korean army soldier passes by a barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, Sunday, May 19, 2013. The South Korean military on Sunday have beefed up monitoring on North Korea and are maintaining a high-level of readiness to deal with any risky developments to guard against possibilities of additional missile launches and other types of provocations.

SKorea: NKorea fires 5th projectile into waters

South Korea says North Korea has fired a short-range projectile into its own eastern waters - for the fifth time in three days. 1369038718 Photo Gallery Available

Iran's Guard warns against post-election turmoil

A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard has warned that his forces will be on watch for possible unrest after next month's presidential election, calling the outcome "unpredictable" and sending the strongest message yet against any attempts to revive street protests, media reported Sunday. Photo Gallery Available

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