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Protesters affiliated to the communist party, shout slogans as they march through the city centre, during a protest against austerity and the far right party of Golden Dawn, in Athens on Saturday, Oct. 5 2013. Heavily indebted Greece is in the sixth year of a deep financial crisis that has seen unemployment soar to 27 percent. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Greece expects economy to grow, finally

Greece expects its economy to grow next year — at last. In its draft budget presented Monday, the government forecast the economy would grow 0.6 percent in 2014, its first annual increase since 2007. This year it is predicted to shrink 4 percent, leaving the economy 25 percent smaller than ...

  • Updated: 5:50 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Karzai says disagreements over security and sovereignty are impeding a security deal with the United States and says he will convene a council of elders in one month to discuss the agreement. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

US still expects to sign pact with Afghanistan

The Obama administration is optimistic that a U.S.-Afghan agreement over the future role of American troops in the country can be finalized in the next few weeks despite two main sticking points and President Hamid Karzai's emotional outburst Monday alleging that the U.S. and NATO repeatedly violate Afghan sovereignty. Nearly ...

  • Updated: 5:19 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Dozens of supporters of the militant group, Ansar al-Shariah, burn an American flag and shout anti-American slogans denouncing the U.S. violation of Libya's sovereignty in the abduction of Abu Anas al-Libi, in the center of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. On Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, the U.S. Army's Delta Force captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)

Nabbing of Libyan militant sparks fear of backlash

The Libyan militant accused by Washington in the killing of the U.S. ambassador told The Associated Press on Monday he's not worried about being next on the list for capture by the Americans after the U.S. commando raid that spirited a senior al-Qaida suspect out of Tripoli. Ahmed Abu Khattala's ...

  • Updated: 5:10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Graphic locates Chihuahua, where fatal accident took place; 2c x 2 inches; 96.3 mm x 50 mm;

Officials blamed in Mexico monster truck crash

Mexican government officials and event organizers on Monday blamed the driver of a monster truck for losing control and plowing into a crowd of spectators, killing eight and injuring 79. Motor-sports experts, however, pointed at the organizers, saying the setup of the state-sponsored show was blatantly deficient and life-threatening. Organizers ...

  • Updated: 5:09 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor

While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show. In a sports stadium, celebrities and pop singers lavished praise on the military in a televised extravaganza complete with dancers and an ...

  • Updated: 4:59 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Smoke rises from the security headquarters after a deadly explosion in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday's attack that killed several people and wounded tens comes a day after at least 51 people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi across much of Egypt. The region of southern Sinai, which includes the popular diving resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has been mostly quiet since a series of deadly attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo)

Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes

A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants a day after more than 50 supporters of the ousted president were killed in clashes with police. The attacks show a ...

  • Updated: 4:55 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Migrants wait to board a ferry boat from the port of Lampedusa, for Sicily, southern Italy, where they will be sent to other temporary camps based on their legal status, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. On Thursday a fishing boat packed with 500 African migrants capsized off the shores of the island of Lampedusa, causing at least 190 dead and more than 100 missing in what could become the largest death toll in a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean on record. Laura Boldrini, the speaker of Italy's lower house who recently led a parliamentary delegation to Lampedusa, said the migrants who are reaching Europe's shores now are by and large asylum seekers, not economic migrants, as has been the case in the past, and that European countries need to align their immigration policies. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy divers find 'wall' of bodies in migrant ship

Deep sea divers "unpacked a wall of people" from the hull of a smuggler's trawler on the sea floor near this Italian island on Monday, gingerly untangling the dead would-be migrants in the latest and most painstaking phase of a recovery operation following the ship's fiery capsizing. It was the ...

  • Updated: 4:54 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
In this April 22, 2013 file photo, former Greek Defense Minister Akis Tsochadzopoulos, centre, arrives at court for the start of long anticipated corruption trial into allegations of kickbacks in defense contracts. An Athens court handed down a guilty verdict on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 against the former defense minister on money laundering charges stemming from military purchases, in the most prominent corruption case to date in the financially-stricken country. (AP Photo/FOSPHOTOS/Panagiotis Tzamaros)

Greek ex-minister jailed for 20 years for graft

A former Greek defense minister was jailed for 20 years after being found guilty Monday of money laundering in the most prominent corruption case to date in the financially stricken country. After a five-month trial, an Athens court found Akis Tsochadzopoulos, a prominent figure in previous Socialist governments, guilty along ...

  • Updated: 4:39 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Argentina's Vice President Amado Boudou attends a presentation of new police cars outside the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Doctors ordered Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to take a month's rest Sunday because they found blood on her brain from a head injury. There has been no official word on whether she would formally put the government in the hands of Boudou, who called off a trip to the Cannes film festival to rush back to Buenos Aires. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina's president to undergo surgery on head

Argentina's president will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove blood between her brain and skull that has been causing new and worrying symptoms, her physicians said. The president's doctors said they had ordered President Cristina Fernandez on Saturday to rest for a month after discovering the subdural hematoma — a clot ...

  • Updated: 4:19 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
File - In this Dec. 5, 2002 file photo, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef sits surrounded by members of his staff during a rally of his Ultra-Orthodox Shas party in Jerusalem. Rabbi Ovadia, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and Arab nations and their descendants into a powerful force in Israeli politics, has died. He was 93.(AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)

Death of Israeli kingmaker leaves huge void

To his supporters, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a revered spiritual sage who empowered masses of disenfranchised Sephardic Jews. Among secular Israelis, he was widely perceived as a medieval figure, bedecked in flowing robes and occasionally given to bizarre rants. But through his control of the Shas political party, Yosef wielded ...

  • Updated: 3:58 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
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