'Terror' exiles arrested in Cuba

Miami-based men are suspected of planning attacks on military targets

S. Korea detains head of company in ferry sinking

South Korean prosecutors have detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading.

US museum to return statue to Cambodia

The Norton Simon Museum in California has agreed to return a 10th-century statue that may have been looted from a Cambodian temple during that country's genocidal civil war in the 1970s.

WHO report says Delhi has worst air pollution

Indian capital Delhi has the most polluted air in the world, according to a World Health Organization report released on Wednesday that covers 1,600 cities and 91 countries.

Ousted Thai PM indicted, faces ban from politics

Thailand's anti-graft commission indicted ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday on charges of dereliction of duty in overseeing a widely criticized rice subsidy program, a day after a court forced her from office.

China: Stop oil rig harassment

Beijing demanded on Thursday that Hanoi cease its harassing actions against a Chinese oil rig in waters off an island in the South China Sea and called for dialogue to end the conflict.

Search for abducted girls gets intl help

World powers, including China and the United States, have joined in the search for the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists who have also killed hundreds in Nigeria's northeast this week.

Eastern Ukrainian cities stick to referendum

The councils of Donetsk and Lugansk in southeastern Ukraine won't postpone referendums on their regions' future as part of Ukraine and will hold them as planned on Sunday, the cities' anti-government activists said.

Polish PM Being cautious

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday he was treating conciliatory comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine crisis with caution.

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11 more girls kidnapped in Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped 11 more girls from two villages in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday night as the United States made plans to help search for more than 200 schoolgirls seized by the militant group last month.

Lavrov: Europe ignoring a resurgence of fascism

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Europe of turning a blind eye to the rebirth of fascist ideology in Ukraine, pointing to the deaths of 42 pro-Russian protesters in a fire in Odessa on May 2 as evidence of fascist violence.