ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running events.
Lelisa Desisa says sport should be a pleasure and never a battlefield. He made the announcement Sunday at a ceremony with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry also honored the woman's runner-up and the men's third...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers.
The Sunday report by Fars quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian forces to "crush the enemy" with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles.
The report did not specify the type of missile that would be fired, nor more details on the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers.
The Sunday report by Fars quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian forces to "crush the enemy" with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles.
The report did not specify the type of missile that would be fired, nor more details on the...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers.
The Sunday report by Fars quotes Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying the new weapons enable Iranian forces to "crush the enemy" with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles.
The report did not specify the type of missile that would be fired, nor more details on the...
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a helicopter.
The aircraft picked up 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura at Camp 2 and flew him to the base camp and then to Katmandu on Sunday. He had initially planned to leave the mountain on Saturday but poor visibility and bad weather conditions forced the cancellation of the helicopter flight.
The weather...
TOKYO (AP) — A United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help those affected by the catastrophe.
A report by special rapporteur Anand Grover, posted on the U.N. Human Rights Council's website, says the government's takeover of Tokyo Electric Power Co. allowed the utility to evade full responsibility for the nuclear disaster, the worst since...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security officials say two rockets have slammed into a Beirut neighborhood that is a Hezbollah stronghold, wounding 3 people.
The rockets landed in the Mar Mikhael district just south of the capital Sunday and at least one of them struck a car exhibit on the street.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. It was not clear from where the rockets were fired.
Tensions have been...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security officials say two rockets have slammed into a Beirut neighborhood that is a Hezbollah stronghold, wounding 3 people.
The rockets landed in the Mar Mikhael district just south of the capital Sunday and at least one of them struck a car exhibit on the street.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. It was not clear from where the rockets were fired.
Tensions have been...
BEIRUT (AP) — Rockets slammed Sunday into two southern Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding four people and raising fears that Syria's civil war is increasingly moving to Lebanon.
Lebanon's sectarian divide mirrors that of Syria, and Lebanese armed factions have taken sides in their neighbor's civil war. One leader of Syria's overwhelmingly Sunni rebels had threatened to strike Hezbollah strongholds to retaliate against the...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Police say opposition activists have set off homemade bombs and smashed several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as they enforce a general strike demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign before general elections.
Many stores and schools are closed in Dhaka on Sunday and few vehicles are plying the roads.
Police official Monirul Islam says no one has been injured, and more than 10,000 security forces have been...
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