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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.The report from the Financial Intellige...
Updated : 2013.05.22 22:01
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DUBAI (AFP) -- Thousands of mainly Asian expatriate workers in the United Arab Emirates have ended a strike they began at the weekend in a rare stoppage aimed at improving their conditions, their employer said Wednesday."Arabtec confirms that all workers returned to work with no impact on ...
Updated : 2013.05.22 21:19
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LONDON, (AFP) -- Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces in Afghanistan will be offered the chance of a new life in Britain after a government U-turn, it was revealed on Wednesday.Prime Minister David Cameron had initially decided to discourage the interpreters from se...
Updated : 2013.05.22 21:05
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TEHRAN (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from next month's presidential race is an act of "oppression'' and that he will take the case to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.His comm...
Updated : 2013.05.22 21:00
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SHANGHAI, (AFP) -- Calligraphy by Japanese porn star Sola Aoi has sparked a culture war in China, where she has a huge fan base, with purists dismissing the work as "unskilled" after it was reportedly auctioned for $95,000.Eight Chinese characters the actress wrote with brush and ink at a ...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:56
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TEHRAN (AP) ― Iran’s election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of reformers. Their exclusion from the June 14 presidential ballot giv...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:44
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) ― Chinese Premier Li Keqiang vowed to strengthen his country’s partnership with Pakistan as he arrived Wednesday for a visit less than two weeks after the country’s general election...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:44
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MOORE, Oklahoma (AP) ― Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a rare and powerful tornado claimed 24 lives. Residents of Moore began returning home, some of them finding only empty lots cleared down to bare red earth in pla...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:43
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LONDON (AFP) ― A bill to legalize gay marriage in Britain passed a crucial hurdle in parliament on Tuesday, despite efforts by lawmakers from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party to wreck the plans.Members of the House of Commons voted by 366 to 161 in favor of the same sex ...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:43
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― The most far-reaching U.S. immigration legislation in about two decades moved forward on a solid bipartisan vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee after supporters avoided a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for a full Senate showd...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:43
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SYDNEY (AP) -- David Warner has pleaded guilty and been fined $5,750 for breaching Cricket Australia's code of conduct after his expletive-laden outbursts against two journalists on Twitter.Cricket Australia issued a statement late Wednesday saying its code of conduct commissioner, Gordon ...
Updated : 2013.05.22 20:39
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Authorities are investigating rice mills in southern China following tests that found almost half of the staple grain in one of the country's largest cities was contaminated with a toxic metal.The mills in Hunan province's Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and recall their pr...
Updated : 2013.05.21 22:09
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Senators examining the case of unwarranted scrutiny of conservative groups that sought tax exempt status will hear for the first time on Tuesday from the man who was in charge of the U.S. tax collection agency when it singled out the groups, one of three potentially damaging issues consumi...
Updated : 2013.05.21 22:04
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JERUSALEM (AFP) ― The father of a Palestinian boy shot dead in Gaza in 2000 said Monday he was willing to have his son exhumed to disprove an Israeli report denying he was killed by Israeli gunfire.T...
Updated : 2013.05.21 20:11
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― Secretary of State John Kerry is headed back to the Middle East to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad’s regime amid increasing signs th...
Updated : 2013.05.21 20:10
