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  • 13 gunmen killed in clash with Mexican soldiers

    Authorities say Mexican soldiers killed 13 gunmen in a clash in the northern state of Zacatecas.

  • 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.

    Irish lawmakers back `life saving' abortion bill

    Lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Friday to back Ireland's first bill on abortion, legalizing the practice in exceptional cases where doctors deem the woman's life at risk from her pregnancy, as the predominantly Catholic country took its first legislative step away from an outright ban. Photo Gallery Available

  • The coffin of murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby is carried by soldiers after his funeral service at Bury Parish church in Greater Manchester, England, Friday July 12, 2013. Relatives of the British soldier killed in broad daylight by alleged Islamic extremists say they are deeply grateful for the support they have received from the public ahead of his funeral on Friday. Lee Rigby was hacked to death May 22 on a London street near his army barracks. (AP Photo/PA, Martin Rickett/ UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

    Thousands mourn UK soldier slain in London

    British Prime Minister David Cameron joined thousands of mourners Friday at the funeral of a British soldier killed in broad daylight by alleged Islamic extremists. Photo Gallery Available

  • FILE - This Saturday, July 6, 2013 file image released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency shows Tamarod opposition leaders from left, Hassan Shahin, Mohammed Abdel-Aziz and Mahmoud Badr meeting with interim president Adly Mansour, right, at the presidential palace. Liberal and youth movements that backed the military’s removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi are now fighting to make their calls for reform heard as they push back against the military’s strong grip on the new leadership. At stake is the hope that the Arab world's most populous nation will emerge from more than two years of turmoil as a democracy.

    Egypt's liberals pressing for democracy after coup

    The liberal and youth movements that backed the military's removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi are now pushing to ensure their calls for change are heard in the face of the generals' strong grip on the new leadership. At stake is the hope that the Arab world's most populous nation will emerge from more than two years of turmoil as a democracy. Photo Gallery Available

  • An Egyptian army soldier reads Islam's holy book, the Quran as he sits on his armored personnel carrier, near the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on the second day of Ramadan, Thursday July 11, 2013. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood vowed Thursday not to back down in its push to restore ousted Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi to power but insisted its resistance is peaceful in an effort to distance itself from more than a week of clashes with security forces.

    Tens of thousands march for ousted Egyptian leader

    Tens of thousands of Islamists rallied Friday in cities across Egypt, vowing to sustain for months their campaign to restore deposed President Mohammed Morsi to power. Photo Gallery Available

  • An Egyptian army soldier reads Islam's holy book, the Quran as he sits on his armored personnel carrier, near the presidential palace in Cairo on the second day of Ramadan

    Egypt’s military blames Mohammed Morsi’s supporters for violence

    In a battle over the narrative of what’s happened here during the past eight dramatic days, the new Egyptian government accused former President Mohammed Morsi on Thursday of being obstinate in his final days, claimed that his supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood had killed some of their own to frame the military and asserted that its decision to oust Morsi may have saved the nation from “possible civil war.”

  • Mexico asked the U.S. for sophisticated surveillance technology

    Latin American complaints over U.S. spying ignore their own wiretap programs

    Several Latin American presidents have complained bitterly following recent revelations about U.S. electronic surveillance, but there’s a bit of hypocrisy in some of their griping.

  • Correction: Mideast-Ramadan story

    In a story July 10 about Ramadan, The Associated Press, relying on a press release issued by the U.N.'s Department of Public Information, News and Media Division, reported erroneously that the World Food Program said it needed $27 million every month to deal with the growing ranks of Syrians made hungry because of the war and refugees crisis abroad. The World Food Program needed $27 million every week. The U.N. has corrected the error.

  • Venezuela announces hard-currency auction

    Venezuela's central bank says that on Friday it will begin selling dollars at auction for only the second time since Hugo Chavez died in March.

  • Pope lets Catholics join Anglican converts

    Pope Francis is letting baptized Catholics join the new church structure created to receive Anglican converts.

  • In this June 4, 2013 photo, Lenin Carballido poses for a portrait during his campaign in Oaxaca, Mexico. Mexican prosecutors are investigating how Carballido certified as dead was elected mayor of a village in southern Mexico. Carballido narrowly won Sunday's election in San Agustin Amatengo, near the colonial city of Oaxaca. But then a death certificate surfaced, indicating that Carballido had died in 2010 of a diabetic coma. Prosecutors say one of Carballido's relatives used the death certificate to convince detectives to drop an arrest warrant for an alleged 2004 rape.

    'Dead' candidate elected in south Mexico village

    Prosecutors are investigating how a man certified as dead got elected mayor of a village in southern Mexico.

  • In this Wednesday, July 10, 2013 photo, Shiites Hassan Alayan, left, who was expelled from the UAE in 2009, speaks with Ali Rashid, right, who was expelled from the UAE in 2011, at a cafe in Beirut, Lebanon. Long considered by authorities as a security threat, hundreds of Shiites have been quietly expelled from the United Arab Emirates over the past few years on suspicion of being supporters of Hezbollah. Diplomats and Shiite families in Lebanon say deportations have surged in the past few months after the militant group group publicly joined the civil war in Syria on the side of President Bashar Assad, an arch enemy of the Gulf’s rulers.

    Lebanon Shiites ousted from Gulf as Hezbollah fans

    When Ali Farhat was summoned to the immigration department in the United Arab Emirates, the 33-year-old Lebanese restaurant worker knew he would have to pack up his family and leave fast.

  • Pope visits Vatican lot after urging 'humble' cars

    Pope Francis is following up on his call for priests to eschew fancy cars.

  • Angry citizens heckle Rail World Inc. president Edward Burkhardt as he tours Lac-Megantic, Quebec, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. A Rail World oil train train crashed into the town, killing at least 15 people.

    Bodies recovered slowly in Quebec train derailment

    The bodies of less than half of the 50 people believed dead in a runaway oil train's explosive derailment have been recovered, nearly a week after the accident which demolished a large part of a Quebec town. Photo Gallery Available

  • Ultra-Orthodox soldier attacked in Jerusalem

    Israeli police say an ultra-Orthodox soldier has been accosted in a religious Jerusalem neighborhood - in a sign of anger over plans to begin drafting religious men into the army.

  • A man adds the finishing touch to a huge bonfire in the New Mossley area on the outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Hundreds of fires will be set alight at midnight, on July 11, as Protestant loyalist's celebrate July 12, to mark the defeat of the Catholic King James, by the Protestant William of Orange in 1690.

    Northern Irish Protestants march, warn of standoff

    Northern Ireland's major Protestant brotherhood, the Orange Order, staged massive parades across the British territory Friday in an annual show of strength - and warned its members would mount a standoff with riot police in a bid to march past a hostile Catholic district. Photo Gallery Available

  • Mali's government returns to key northern city

    The governor of a key city in northern Mali that was under rebel control until last week returned for the first time since the region fell to Tuareg separatists and al-Qaida-linked fighters 16 months ago.

  • Police officers and soldiers give orders to others as they are deployed outside Tanjung Gusta prison that was partially set ablaze by inmates during a prison riot in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, July 11, 2013. About 150 prisoners have reportedly escaped from the overcrowded prison in western Indonesia following a riot triggered by a power outage.

    Indonesia army takes control of prison after riot

    Security forces on Friday regained control of a crowded prison in western Indonesia where inmates set fires and started a deadly riot that left five people dead and hundreds of prisoners, including convicted terrorists, on the loose, officials said. Photo Gallery Available

  • Guantanamo hunger strike may have reached peak

    The long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay may be showing the first signs of tapering off.

  • FILE - In this Nov. 1, 1958, file photo, Garnet Clarke, on stretcher, is the second miner brought to the surface after nearly ten days in the dark, at Cumberland Rail & Coal Co. in Springhill, Nova Scotia. On Oct. 23, 1958, an explosion trapped 174 miners at 13,000 feet underground, killing 74 of them. The Springhill mining disaster was among Canada's deadliest accidents in the last 150 years, killing 74. Police say 50 people are presumed dead following a July 6, 2013, fiery oil train crash in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, making it Canada’s worst railway crash in nearly 150 years.

    Deadly accidents in Canada in the last 150 years

    Police say 50 people are presumed dead following Saturday's fiery oil train crash that incinerated the downtown area of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, making it Canada's worst railway crash in nearly 150 years. Here is a list of some past accidents in Canada - including air crashes, shipwrecks, mining disasters and derailments - with high death tolls. Photo Gallery Available

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