BERLIN (AP) — A modern version of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" has been canceled in Germany after the opening-night audience complained about new scenes showing Jews being executed and dying in the gas chambers.
A spokeswoman for Duesseldorf's opera house said there would only be concert performances without theatrical staging.
Monika Doll said producer Burkhard Kosminski had refused to tone down the disputed scenes, even though the Holocaust-...
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The European Union law mission in Kosovo says it has ordered a suspected Balkan drug boss to be detained for one month while it gathers evidence in a suspected organized crime case.
Naser Kelmendi is suspected of directing a criminal network stretching from Turkey into Western Europe.
The EULEX mission said Thursday that Kelmendi is being investigated for "the same offences he has been accused of in Bosnia." Authorities in...
GENEVA (AP) — Two multinational drugmakers are teaming up with global health groups in an attempt to protect millions of girls in the world's poorest countries from deadly cervical cancer.
Starting with pilot programs in eight Asian and African nations, the ambitious project aims to inoculate more than 30 million girls in more than 40 countries by 2020.
The endeavor was announced Thursday by the GAVI Alliance, a public-private partnership that's...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Breaking ranks with the military high command, a general is accusing President Yoweri Museveni of trying to ensure his son replaces him, the first top official to raise concerns about the purported succession plan.
David Sejusa, one of only six generals in the Ugandan military and a member of its high command, said in a recent letter to the head of the internal security service that he wants an investigation into allegations that those opposed to...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is testing injured Syrians seeking treatment across the border for chemical weapon wounds, the foreign minister said Thursday.
Ahmet Davutoglu also said more substantial tests were being conducted on a dozen injured Syrians and that the results of those tests would be made public as soon as they are available.
The move follows allegations of possible chemical weapons use in Syria's civil war between President Bashar Assad...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq on Thursday rejected a key element of an accord to bring an end to a long Kurdish uprising in Turkey — offering refuge to rebel fighters in country's north.
In March, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, announced a deal to end a nearly three-decade conflict in turkey that has killed tens of thousands of people. The deal was reached in talks between imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and the Turkish government.
The refuge offer...
LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has opted against pumping more money into the British economy.
The decision Thursday by the central bank's main policymaking body had been widely expected. The policymaking committee also opted to keep the main interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent.
Recent figures showing that Britain avoided its third recession in four years reined in expectations the Bank would make more asset purchases. The Bank has splashed out...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A prominent Islamic scholar making a landmark visit to the Gaza Strip declared Thursday that Israel has no right to exist and voiced his support for rocket fire on Israel, giving a boost of legitimacy to the militant Islamist Hamas rulers of the Palestinian territory.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi is the latest of a few high profile figures visit Gaza, boosting the Hamas effort to break its international isolation. The U.S., EU and Israel brand Hamas a...
CAIRO (AP) — Five rights activists are on trial in Egypt over the torching of the campaign headquarters of a front-runner in the country's 2012 presidential election.
A court official says the proceedings opened on Thursday at the Criminal Court in Cairo but were later postponed to Sept. 3. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Alaa Abdel-Fatah, a well-known blogger who was among the youth...
CAIRO (AP) — Five rights activists are on trial in Egypt over the torching of the campaign headquarters of a front-runner in the country's 2012 presidential election.
A court official says the proceedings opened on Thursday at the Criminal Court in Cairo but were later postponed to Sept. 3. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Alaa Abdel-Fatah, a well-known blogger who was among the youth...
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