International
Iran says $100 per barrel is ‘fair’ price for oil
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s oil minister says the country supports prices of $100 for a barrel of crude. A Monday report by the ministry website quotes Rostam Ghasemi as saying, “For the price of crude to remain at about $100 is fair, and Iran supports it.” Iran has traditionally sought higher prices for crude [...]
North Korea replaces hard-line defense minister
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has replaced its hard-line defense minister with a little-known army general, according to a state media report Monday, in what outside analysts call an attempt to install a younger figure meant to solidify leader Kim Jong Un’s grip on the powerful military. Jang Jong Nam’s appointment is the [...]
Spies caught in website scandal embarrass SKorea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The scandal shaking up South Korea’s main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul’s opaque rival to the north, but the country’s own people. Internet postings ostensibly from ordinary South Koreans, [...]
2 popes praying: Egyptian Copt and Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two popes prayed together Friday at the Vatican, one Catholic and one Orthodox, in a sign of improving ties following the election of new leaders for both churches. Pope Francis welcomed the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, Pope Tawadros II, in the first such meeting at the Vatican [...]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rallies against Israel
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is staging an anti-Israel rally in Cairo to protest Israeli airstrikes in Syria and the detention of a Muslim cleric. Chants of “the people want destruction of Israel” rang out Friday inside Al-Azhar mosque, the centuries-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning. The rally is the first such protest by [...]
‘Ring of fire’ eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
SYDNEY (AP) — The moon glided between the Earth and sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light, for the few skygazers lucky enough to see Friday’s “ring of fire” eclipse in northern Australia and the South Pacific. The celestial spectacle is the second solar eclipse visible from northern Australia in six months. In [...]
Turkey: US man gets suspended smuggling sentence
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A lawyer says an American tourist who picked up stones during a beach holiday in Turkey has received a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to smuggle historical artifacts. Jason Dement from Purvis, Mississippi, was briefly detained in April at an airport near the Mediterranean coast because two pieces inside a bag [...]
G-7 to discuss ways to ‘nurture recovery’
LONDON (AP) — What more the world’s top central banks can do to shore up the global economic recovery is expected to feature large at a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the seven leading industrial economies. In a statement Friday ahead of the Group of Seven meeting at a country house around [...]
Chess world champion Anand draws against Carlsen
SANDNES, Norway (AP) — Chess world champion Viswanathan Anand of India has drawn against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in the second round of the Norway Chess Tournament. Playing white, the 22-year-old Carlsen showed aggressive intent, turning down an early opportunity to force a draw. Thursday’s game slowed in mid-section as both players exchanged queens [...]
BoE opts against further monetary stimulus
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 [...]
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