SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A former prime minister whose party won Bulgaria's May 12 election says his party doesn't have enough seats in parliament to form a stable government.
Boiko Borisov made that decision Thursday, saying his center-right GERB party only has 97 of parliament's 240 seats, and that isn't enough to succeed.
That means President Rosen Plevneliev is now expected to ask the Socialists, who finished second in the election with 84 seats,...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead four soldiers at an army checkpoint north of Baghdad.
Two police officers say four others were wounded in the Thursday morning attack in the town of Taji. The militants fled the area after a brief clash without suffering casualties.
A health official confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information....
SINGAPORE (AP) — The parents of an American software engineer found dead in his Singapore apartment last year left the city-state Thursday before the end of a coroner's inquest, saying they had lost faith in the process. Their lawyer said they would push for a U.S. congressional investigation.
Rick and Mary Todd believe their son Shane Truman Todd was murdered in June 2012 and that evidence of suicide presented by Singapore police was faked.
Rick...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities once arrested an American citizen now known to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in the country, but he escaped after being released on bail.
The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, making him the fourth American citizen killed by unmanned aircraft in Pakistan and Yemen.
Mohammad was indicted by federal...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian pro-reform website is reporting that former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has strongly criticized the policies of the country's ruling clerical establishment, days after a constitutional watchdog disqualified him from running in the June 14 elections.
"I think it is not possible to run the country worse than this," Jaheshnews.ir quoted him as saying late Wednesday in reaction to his Tuesday disqualification by the hard-line Guardian...
GOMA, Congo (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived on Thursday in Goma, eastern Congo, hours after a rebel group fighting government forces nearby said they would impose a cease-fire to allow the visit to proceed.
The M23 rebels and the Congolese army began fighting three days ago just north of Goma, ending a nearly six-month-long truce.
Last November the rebels handed both the government and the United Nations a humiliating blow...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian pro-reform website is reporting that former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has strongly criticized the policies of the country's ruling clerical establishment, days after a constitutional watchdog disqualified him from running in the June 14 elections.
"I think it is not possible to run the country worse than this," Jaheshnews.ir quoted him as saying late Wednesday in reaction to his Tuesday disqualification by the hard-line Guardian...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian pro-reform website is reporting that former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has strongly criticized the policies of the country's ruling clerical establishment, days after a constitutional watchdog disqualified him from running in the June 14 elections.
"I think it is not possible to run the country worse than this," Jaheshnews.ir quoted him as saying late Wednesday in reaction to his Tuesday disqualification by the hard-line Guardian...
BEIJING (AP) — While a North Korean envoy waits for an expected meeting with China's Communist Party chief, his Chinese hosts are taking him touring in Beijing.
North Korea's official Central News Agency reported that the envoy, Choe Ryong Hae, spent part of Thursday touring an industrial park in the southern part of the capital, accompanied by a Communist Party functionary.
Choe is on the second day of a fence-mending mission to China after a half-...
PRAGUE (AP) — An American man suspected of killing four people is on the run in the Czech Republic and likely armed, officials said Thursday.
Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified the man as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992, and released his photograph. A Facebook page showing the same photograph says that Dahlgren is from Palo Alto, California, and lives in Brno, the Czech Republic's second-largest city.
Local firefighters spokesman Jaroslav...
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