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Head of the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces Mouaz al-Khatib speaks during the group's meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, May 23, 2013. A spokesman said Syria's main opposition bloc welcomes renewed calls by its foreign supporters that Syrian President Bashar Assad give up power at the start of any political transition aimed at ending the country's civil war. The three-day meeting started in Istanbul to lay out conditions for possible talks with regime representatives in Geneva next month.(AP Photo/Bulent Kilic, Pool)

Syrian regime OKs peace talks amid skepticism

Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.-Russian-brokered peace conference, according to Moscow. While this development might seem at first glance to be a step toward ending the civil war, strong skepticism persists on both sides. Doubting that Damascus is serious and may be stalling while government forces make battlefield ...

  • Updated: 3:37 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Undated photo issued by the British Ministry of Defence of an RAF Typhoon Aircraft of the type that has escorted a passenger plane into Stansted Airport in southern England following an incident on board Friday May 24, 2013. British media reported the flight was a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane flying to Manchester, England. (AP Photo/ MOD via PA)

UK-bound Pakistan plane diverted, 2 men arrested

Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two British passengers who allegedly threatened to destroy the plane. A British security official said the situation ...

  • Updated: 3:28 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro arrives to attend President Rafael Correa's swearing-in ceremony in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, May 24, 2013. Correa is starting a third term as president. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Venezuela to create new workers militia

Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia to defend the country's "Bolivarian revolution" at a time when the government faces economic problems and political turmoil. President Nicolas Maduro gave few details about the militia, including how many members it would consist of, but said it would ...

  • Updated: 3:25 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
A woman blows a kiss as she lays a floral tribute in memory of the victim outside the Royal Artillery Barracks near the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. A member of armed forces was attacked and killed by two men on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Soldier's slaying prompts UK security review

Both of the suspects accused of butchering a British soldier during broad daylight on a London street had long been on the radar of Britain's domestic spy agency, though investigators say it would have been nearly impossible to predict that the men were on the verge of a brutal killing. ...

  • Updated: 3:24 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013

Iran presidential candidate vows to resist West

Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if elected. Addressing his first campaign rally in Tehran, Saeed Jalili said his priority in foreign policy will be to expand Islam's influence in the world and ...

  • Updated: 2:14 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno gestures during a photo opportunity in Rome on May 21, 2013. Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running. The vote is very much a test of Berlusconi's enduring political influence and voter sentiment over the uneasy national government made up of his center-right forces and the center-left that was formed following inconclusive February elections. While local issues don't necessarily mirror national concerns, how Berlusconi's candidate, incumbent Mayor Gianni Alemanno, fares is being watching as a measure of his political weight amid his continuing legal woes: Berlusconi faces a ban from holding public office for five years if his recent tax fraud conviction is upheld on final appeal and a verdict is due soon in his sex-for-hire trial. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Berlusconi looms large in Rome mayor election

Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend, even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running. The vote is very much a test of Berlusconi's enduring political influence and voter sentiment over the uneasy national government made up of his center-right forces and the ...

  • Updated: 2:08 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013

Syria targeted Israeli jeep going to rebel village

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria said it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday, Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said ...

  • Updated: 1:54 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Karima el Mahroug, second from right, prepares to give her testimony in a court in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 24, 2013. The woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has denied in court ever telling a former roommate that she had sex with the then-premier. Karima el Mahroug appeared for a second day of testimony Friday at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides charged with procuring prosecutors for the media mogul's infamous "bunga bunga" parties. The trial is separate from the one charging Berlusconi with having paid for sex with a minor, el Mahroug herself, and then trying to cover it up. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu)

Woman in Berlusconi case denies her own statements

The woman who prosecutors allege had sex with Silvio Berlusconi while he was Italy's premier in exchange for money spent her second day on the witness stand Friday, denying her own sworn descriptions of racy escapades at his "bunga bunga" parties and long lists of expensive jewelry and watches received ...

  • Updated: 1:50 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Karima el Mahroug stands in a court in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 24, 2013. The woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has denied in court ever telling a former roommate that she had sex with the then-premier. Karima el Mahroug appeared for a second day of testimony Friday at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides charged with procuring prosecutors for the media mogul's infamous "bunga bunga" parties. The trial is separate from the one charging Berlusconi with having paid for sex with a minor, el Mahroug herself, and then trying to cover it up. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu)

Woman in Berlusconi denies her own statements

The woman who prosecutors allege had sex with Silvio Berlusconi while he was Italy's premier in exchange for money spent her second day on the witness stand Friday, denying her own sworn descriptions of racy escapades at his "bunga bunga" parties and long lists of expensive jewelry and watches received ...

  • Updated: 1:44 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
UK-bound Pakistan Plane Diverted, 2 Men Arrested

UK-bound Pakistan Plane Diverted, 2 Men Arrested

Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain, officials said. (May 24)

  • 1:25 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
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