CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:
Will a switched-at-birth Japanese drama tug on Steven Spielberg's heart strings?
The Cannes Film Festival was wondering that Saturday, when Kore-eda Hirokazu's elegant and emotional "Like Father, Like Son" premiered. It quickly emerged as an early contender for the Palme d'Or, the winner of which will be decided by a jury headed by Spielberg....
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian actor Sanjay Dutt surrendered before a Mumbai court Thursday to begin serving time for a weapons conviction linked to a deadly terror attack in the city in 1993.
India's Supreme Court sentenced Dutt to five years in prison in March for illegal possession of weapons supplied by mafia bosses linked to the terror attack, which killed 257 people in the Indian financial capital and entertainment hub.
The 53-year-old actor served 18...
LONDON (AP) — British government officials said Thursday that BP has not sought Prime Minister David Cameron's help in reducing compensation claims for its role in the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
U.K. media reports claim BP will ask Cameron for help in convincing the U.S. government to intervene. The reports say BP hopes Cameron will raise the issue at a world leaders' summit that Britain will host next month.
British officials...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A court has sentenced a Malaysian couple to 24 years in prison for fatally starving their Cambodian housemaid.
Police found the body of Mey Sichan at the couple's home in Malaysia's northern Penang state in April last year. Medical reports said she weighed only 26 kilograms (57 pounds).
The Penang High Court on Thursday convicted Soh Chew Tong and his wife, Chin Chui Ling, of causing the death.
Their...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to between six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China.
The sentences Thursday were the latest in an intensified crackdown against dissent in the one-party, authoritarian state.
Lawyer Nguyen Thanh Luong says Nguyen Phuong Uyen was sentenced to six years, while Dinh Nguyen Kha received eight years after a one-day...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian politician taking his morning jog through the national capital came out second best Thursday after crossing a kangaroo.
Shane Rattenbury, a minister in the Australian Capital Territory government, which administers the city of Canberra, said he was running on a sidewalk in inner-suburban Ainslie and was only seconds away from a collision before he saw the eastern gray kangaroo at the end of a hedge grazing on a front lawn....
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two car bombs have exploded in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad this morning, killing at least 12 people and wounding 30.
Baghdad police say the first blast struck a bus and taxi stop around rush hour in the eastern Sadr City neighborhood. A 7-year old child was among nine killed.
Another car bomb hit a small market at a taxi stop in the eastern suburb of Kamaliya, killing three civilians and wounding 14 others....
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a demonstrator has been sentenced to three months in prison for hanging a Bahrain flag from his truck during 2011 rallies.
Thursday's ruling is among the first based on tougher penalties imposed last month for insulting the Gulf state's king or national symbols. The measures seek to quell more than two years of protests led by Bahrain's majority Shiites seeking a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled nation....
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A defense lawyer in Bahrain says a demonstrator has been sentenced to three months in prison for hanging a Bahrain flag from his truck during 2011 rallies.
Thursday's ruling is among the first based on tougher penalties imposed last month for insulting the Gulf state's king or national symbols. The measures seek to quell more than two years of protests led by Bahrain's majority Shiites seeking a greater political voice in the Sunni-ruled nation....
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A Bahrain demonstrator was sentenced to three months in prison Thursday for hanging a Bahrain flag from his truck during a 2011 rally, a defense lawyer said, in one of the first cases based on tougher codes for alleged insults to the Gulf nation's ruler or symbols.
The specific charges were unclear, but prosecutors argued that draping the flag over the truck during the protest gathering was an offense under the new rules.
Many...
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