Home Dozens of children killed in new Syria attack
BEIRUT (AP) — Gruesome video Saturday showed rows of dead Syrian children lying in a mosque in bloody shorts and T-shirts with gaping head wounds, haunting images of what activists called one of the deadliest regime attacks yet in Syria's 14-month-old uprising.
Vatican confirms pope's butler arrested in scandal
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican confirmed on Saturday that the pope's butler has been arrested in its embarrassing leaks scandal, adding a Hollywood twist to a sordid tale of power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance.
Egypt's 3rd runner-up calls for vote recount
CAIRO (AP) — The third runner-up in Egypt's presidential race called Saturday for a partial vote recount, citing violations, his spokesman said.
Iran: Enriched uranium traces a 'technical issue'
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces of enriched uranium discovered at an underground bunker came from a "routine technical issue," the country's official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Havana sees US invasion at key art festival
HAVANA (AP) — Ruben Alpizar never met the American collector who fell in love with his painting of a plummeting Icarus against a starry background, hanging on the wall of a Spanish colonial-era fortress across the bay from Havana. Nor did he get a name or a hometown, or even learn whether the buyer was a man or a woman.
- Hunger returns to Africa, stalking 1M children
GOUDOUDE DIOBE, Senegal (AP) — It's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his family's hut.
Iraqi president calls for dialogue to solve crisis
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's president on Saturday urged the nation's bickering factions to resolve the bitter political dispute that has gripped the government for nearly six months, warning that the crisis threatens to split the country.
Gunman kills 2, wounds 7 in Finland, then arrested
HELSINKI (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman killed two people and wounded seven early Saturday in a random shooting in a southern Finnish town, police said.
- Mexico's Michel Franco wins Cannes sidebar prize
CANNES, France (AP) — "After Lucia" by Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival's sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard.
Quiet Revolution's old dreams fuel Quebec protests
MONTREAL (AP) — Quebec's generous social services date back to sweeping reforms in the 1960s, a period of intense nationalism. Yet many Quebecers look back at the "Quiet Revolution" with regret over one unfulfilled promise: free higher education.
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