BERLIN (AP) — Germany's chancellor will raise the issue of the U.S. National Security Agency's eavesdropping on European communications when she meets President Barack Obama here next week — the latest sign of the international backlash over America's sweeping electronic surveillance programs.
Obama has defended the once-secret programs that sweep up to an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers, saying they are a necessary...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The two Koreas will hold their highest-level talks in years Wednesday in an effort to restore scrapped joint economic projects and ease animosity marked by recent threats of nuclear war. That in itself is progress, though there are hints that disputes in their bloody history could thwart efforts to better ties.
Still, just setting up the two-day meeting in Seoul, through a 17-hour negotiating session that ended early Monday, required the kind of...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — He talks about easing the political restrictions imposed by Iranian authorities. He tells crowds that rebuilding ties with Western governments is better than denouncing them as irreconcilable enemies.
At a rally Monday, crowds gathered for candidate Hasan Rowhani broke out in chants for the release of political prisoners.
Suddenly, the accidental envoy of Iran's besieged reformists in Friday's presidential election seems to be...
LONDON (AP) — Six British men inspired by Islamic extremist material were sentenced Monday to almost 20 years in prison each for plotting a bomb and gun attack on a far-right rally a year ago.
The men, from the Birmingham area of central England, had earlier pleaded guilty at London's Central Criminal Court to planning an attack on the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim English Defense League.
The plot failed when they arrived after the rally had ended....
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The world's energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 billion tons, even though the U.S. posted its lowest emissions since the mid-1990s, the International Energy Agency said Monday.
In its annual World Energy Outlook report, the Paris-based IEA said top carbon polluter China had the largest emissions growth last year, up 300 million tons, or 3.8 percent, from 2011. Still, the increase was among the lowest...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Lal Krishna Advani, one of the founding members of India's main opposition party, resigned from all party positions Monday, a day after the party appointed a controversial Hindu ideologue to lead its campaign in national elections next year.
Advani, the most senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, stepped away to show his opposition to the elevation of Narendra Modi, now likely the party's choice for prime minister if it wins in 2014....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister will meet with a group of protesters occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square this week, the deputy prime minister said Monday, as the government sought a way out of the impasse that has led to hundreds of protests in dozens of cities.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said, however, the government would no longer tolerate "illegal acts," and implied that the occupation of Taksim and its accompanying Gezi Park would be...
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II visited her husband, Prince Philip, at a London hospital on Monday, where he was spending his 92nd birthday recovering from abdominal surgery.
Philip was "comfortable and in good spirits," Buckingham Palace officials said, but he will need about two months of convalescence following the surgery. Details of his condition were not released.
The queen spent about half an hour at the London Clinic in central London....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Defense Ministry says a Polish soldier has died of wounds suffered in an explosion of a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
The ministry said that Master Cpl. Jan Kiepura was injured early Monday while on a safety-checking mission with his motorized platoon in the Ghazni province. He received immediate medical aid but could not be saved, said Marek Pietrzak, spokesman for the ministry's Operations Command.
The 35-year-old is...
BEIJING (AP) — A day after the presidents of China and the United States ended their first summit, pledges of cooperation by the two leaders faced an early test from an unexpected quarter -- an American intelligence contractor was leaking highly sensitive U.S. surveillance programs from his hiding place in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.
China, which has long chafed at U.S. accusations that it carries out extensive surveillance on American government and commercial...
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