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KATE BRUMBACKKELLI KENNEDY

Tropical Storm Beryl threatened to snarl traffic on Memorial Day as it brought drenching rain, winds and the possibility of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coast. The storm made landfall in Florida early Monday near Jacksonville Beach around 12:10 a.m....

CIARAN GILESDANIEL WOOLLS

MADRID (AP) — Concern over troubled Spanish lender Bankia and the government's ability to come up with the €19 billion ($23.8 billion) bailout the bank needs to bolster its defenses sent the nationalized lender's stock price plummeting and Spain's borrowing...

RAPHAEL SATTER

LONDON (AP) — Former Prime Minister Tony Blair testified Monday he never challenged the influential British press because doing so would have plunged his administration in a drawn-out and politically damaging fight. Blair led Britain from 1997 to 2007,...

A reported altercation occurred between Justin Bieber and and an unnamed photographer was confirmed by Lieutenant Robert Wiard of the Calabasas Sheriff's Department. The incident reportedly happened at 12:45pm today, Sunday, May 27 at Calabasas Commons. The...

PABLO GORONDI

Oil rose to near $92 a barrel Monday as Greek polls suggested pro-austerity parties might win elections next month, raising the likelihood the country will stay in the euro common currency. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for July delivery was...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Microsoft Corp. says it has appointed a local company to distribute its products in Iraq in what it says is a sign of growth for the war-plagued country. Manager of Business Development for Emerging Markets Rajai S. El-Khadem said Monday...

SELCAN HACAOGLU

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Monday formally pressed charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency said. The...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives to give evidence at the Leveson inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London, Monday, May 28, 2012. The Leveson inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — A prominent Bahraini rights activist was released on bail Monday more than three weeks after his arrest on charges linked to anti-government protests in the Gulf kingdom. Nabel Rajab said he paid bail of 300 dinars ($800) Monday and...

IBRAHIM BARZAK

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Election officials from the West Bank arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday to prepare the way for a long-overdue vote, taking a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between Palestinians. The delegation crossed the Israeli...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman on Monday unexpectedly announced his resignation as chief executive of TNK-BP, the Russian venture of British oil company BP. TNK-BP said in a statement that Fridman has submitted a letter of resignation as CEO...

BEIJING (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party on Monday expelled a former railways minister who had overseen a massive expansion of high-speed rail, accusing him of taking bribes and fostering major corruption throughout the country's railway system. The...

Fukushima farmers were taking steps to decontaminate the soil as they planted this year's rice crop, hoping and praying for a harvest that will clear radiation tests. (May 28) SHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Fukushima, Japan - 24 May...

CREMONA, Italy (AP) — Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence Monday and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere, including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri, as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in...

LONDON (AP) — A conservationist says she is releasing 100 short-haired bees into the wild, 20 years after they were wiped out in the British countryside. The bees' population has declined dramatically across Europe in the last two decades as their...

NAMPHO, North Korea (AP) — North Korea is reporting a serious drought that could worsen already critical food shortages, but help is unlikely to come from the United States and South Korea following Pyongyang's widely criticized rocket launch. North Korea...

BEIRUT (AP) — UN says special envoy Kofi Annan has arrived in Damascus for talks with Syrian president.

VICTOR L. SIMPSON

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One of the Vatican's biggest scandals in decades appears to be widening with reports that an Italian cardinal may be involved in a power struggle involving leaked documents, corruption and intrigue. Leading Italian newspapers Corriere...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The International Monetary fund has told Ukraine it must raise gas and heating prices for households if it is to regain access to a $15.6 bailout loan from the fund. The government of President Viktor Yanukovych has been reluctant to...