CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- While Venezuela's sick president recuperates from surgery behind closed doors in Cuba, at home he is more visible than ever. Wind, snow thwart search for plane in Antarctica
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Hurricane-force winds and snow were preventing searchers Friday from reaching a plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while carrying three Canadians.
Alberta premier warns of $6 billion shortfall in oil revenue
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Alberta's premier warned on Thursday that the Western Canadian province faced a C$6 billion ($6 billion) shortfall in revenue due to deeply discounted prices for its crude oil but offered no specifics on how to prevent falling deeper into the red. Alberta's financial forecasts have been thrown into disarray by fast-growing output from its vast oil sands and limited pipeline capacity to move it to markets in the United States and elsewhere. That has pulled the price of a barrel down to less than half that of international benchmark Brent oil. … Spanish daily halts edition with fake Chavez photo
MADRID (AP) -- The leading Spanish newspaper El Pais withdrew and reprinted its Thursday edition after discovering that its front-page exclusive photograph supposedly showing ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez being treated in Cuba was a fake.
Crews again can't reach downed plane in Antarctica
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- For a second day, searchers have been unable to reach a plane believed to have crashed in an Antarctic mountain range while carrying three Canadians.
Trial in India gang rape begins in special court
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The trial of five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus began in a closed courtroom with opening arguments by the prosecution lawyers in a special fast-track court set up just weeks ago to handle sexual assault cases. Dutch, Britons, Germans warned to leave Benghazi
LONDON (AP) -- Britain, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands urged their citizens to immediately leave the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, warning of an imminent threat against Westerners days after a deadly hostage crisis in neighboring Algeria. Honduras can't pay its bills, neglects services
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Street surveillance cameras in one of the world's most dangerous cities were turned off last week because Honduras' government hasn't paid millions of dollars it owes. The operator that runs them is now threatening to suspend police radio service as well. Strong turnout in Jordan's elections belies deep-seated cynicism
By mid-afternoon yesterday, Mohammad Audeh still hadn’t decided if he was going to vote or not. He said he didn't see anyone he wanted to vote for as he hung around outside the polling station, watching as, according to him, candidates tried to buy votes from the young people in the neighborhood.
Would a bailout for Cyprus mean underwriting dirty money?
When compared to the hundreds of billions of euros used to prevent Greece from collapsing, the EUR11 billion needed to recapitalize the banks of Cyprus is a relatively small sum. But Cyprus, the fourth eurozone country applying for financial aid in order to prevent a state bankruptcy, has potential creditors pausing just the same.
With France bearing down, key rebel in Mali splits from Islamists
In an apparent sign of internal conflict among one of the Islamist rebel groups controlling northern Mali, a prominent Ansar Dine member, Alghabass Ag Intallah, told the Associated Press Thursday that he and his men were breaking from the group “so that we can be in control of our own fate.”
Mexico, France divided on release of Frenchwoman
PARIS (AP) -- She left Mexico to jeers of "killer!" but touched down Thursday in Paris to the fanfare of a state welcome. The people Egypt's revolution left behind
For a video of an Egyptian activist describing his own experience of the revolution and the two years since, please scroll to middle of story.
In remote Western Sahara, prized phosphate drives controversial investments
At the end of a pier stretching more than a mile-and-a-half into the Atlantic Ocean from Laayoune, a 75,000-ton tanker vessel rocks slowly in the ocean swells, creaking and groaning as it takes on a new load.
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