MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- Thousands of protesters in Bahrain are demonstrating against the Gulf nation’s monarchy, less than a week before planned talks aimed at easing a two-year political crisis.
Iceland investigating mass herring deaths
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Researchers in Iceland are blaming low oxygen levels in a shallow fjord for the deaths of tens of thousands of tons of herring. Campaign against female genital mutilation gaining ground support, results
In many parts of the Kween District of eastern Uganda, women are divided into two distinct categories.
Migrant workers at Sochi Olympic sites face abuses
SOCHI, Russia (AP) -- One year ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the roads in the Black Sea resort and its surrounding mountains are lined with migrants from Central Asia doing the grunt work that Russians find too low-paid and physically demanding.
Suncor slides as results disappoint, upgrader in doubt
(Reuters) – Shares in Suncor fell nearly 5 percent in pre-market trade on Wednesday, after Canada’s largest oil company reported a loss and wrote down the value of its Voyageur oil sands upgrading project. Calgary, Alberta-based Suncor said late on Tuesday it has booked a C$1.49 billion ($1.5 billion) writedown on Voyageur and the project – aimed at converting oil sands bitumen into refinery-ready synthetic crude – may not go ahead. …
Prized Bosnian cultural relic won't show in NYC
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- A Bosnian museum has rejected an offer by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to exhibit one of its most prized relics, a 600-year-old Jewish manuscript that is not being displayed because of a lack of money.
German education minister says she won't resign after losing doctorate for plagiarism
BERLIN – Germany’s education minister says she will not resign after a university stripped her of her doctorate because of plagiarism, and vowed to fight the ruling.
German education minister says she won't resign
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's education minister said Wednesday she will not resign after a university found she had plagiarized parts of her thesis but will instead to fight the ruling -- a major embarrassment for the government in an election year. French battle Mali rebels in Sahara, Tuaregs an issue
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) – French and Malian troops are fighting Islamist rebels in the Sahara outside northern Mali's biggest town, France's defense minister said on Wednesday, describing the desert campaign against al Qaeda as a "real war" that was far from won. After driving the Islamists from north Mali's main towns with three weeks of air strikes and a lightning ground advance, France is now pursuing them in the remote northeast where pro-autonomy Tuaregs are pressing their own territorial claims. … Iran offering reeling Egypt 'big credit line'
CAIRO (AP) -- Iran's president on Wednesday offered to help rescue Egypt's failing economy with a "big credit line," another sign of improving relations between two regional powers after a freeze of more than three decades. Armenia's presidential hopeful on hunger strike
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) -- Doctors in Armenia have expressed concern about the condition of a presidential candidate who has been on a hunger strike outside the parliament building for more than two weeks.
TSX may open lower on Europe fears, Suncor results
(Reuters) – Canada's main stock index looked set to open lower on Wednesday, hurt by renewed concerns about the health of the euro zone's economy and weaker-than-expected results from Suncor Energy Inc , the country's biggest oil company. TOP STOR IES * Suncor posted a fourth-quarter loss as it wrote down the value of its Voyageur oil sands upgrading project just weeks before it is due to make a final decision on whether to build the facility. … UK cities in tug-of-war over bones of Richard III
LONDON (AP) -- Two English cities are doing battle over the bones of King Richard III. France: Mali withdrawal is in sight
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Argentina vows to prosecute Falklands oil firms
LONDON (Reuters) – Argentina will continue legal action against energy firms working off the disputed, British-c ontrolled Falkland Islands, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said on Wednesday. "We will continue to seek legal action against (these) hydrocarbon companies … they are stealing the natural resources of Argentina," he told reporters at a news conference in London. Britain and Argentina fought a 10-week war in 1982 over the Falklands, part of Britain's self-governing territories, some 300 miles off Argentina's coast. … EU parliament pushes fish reform in landmark vote
STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- The European Union parliament has pushed for a drastic reform of fishing policy in a landmark vote seeking to end decades of overfishing that have decimated many of the stocks in Atlantic and Mediterranean EU waters. Merkel proposes September 22 as election date: spokesman
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has asked the German president to set September 22 as the date of the next federal election, whe n she hopes to secure a third term in power. "It will come as no surprise that the German government is proposing to the president that Sunday, September 22, 2013 should be the day of the 18th German (federal) election," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert told a regular news conference. … 
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