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Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry

Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid The Sun were arrested Saturday along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.

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Police: Journalist couple killed in Bangladesh

Two television journalists in Bangladesh found stabbed to death Saturday in their home in the capital of Dhaka, police said. The motive of the killings is unknown.

US sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican dismissed

Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants.

Thousands march against nuclear power in Japan

Thousands of Japanese people marched against nuclear power Saturday, amid growing worries about the restarting of reactors idled after the March 11 meltdown disaster in northeastern Japan.

Harper says China will lend panda pair to Canada

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has wrapped up a visit to China aimed at boosting oil sales by announcing that Beijing will loan two of the country's prized giant pandas to Canadian zoos.

Aung San Suu Kyi campaigns for Myanmar parliament

Thousands of cheering supporters swarmed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday as the democracy icon took her historic campaign for a parliament seat to the southern constituency she hopes to represent for the first time.

Car bomb seriously wounds Iraqi police chief

Iraqi officials say a car bomb south of Baghdad has seriously wounded a local police chief.

Ahmadinejad: Iran to reveal new nuke achievements

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will soon reveal "very big new nuclear achievements."

US gov't official meets with new Maldives leader

The new president of the Maldives said Saturday that he was ready to face an independent investigation into the transfer of power in the Indian Ocean nation that his predecessor alleges was a coup.

AP Exclusive: Inside the making of the Bali bombs

An Indonesian militant charged in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks has told interrogators he spent weeks holed up in a rented house, painstakingly building a half-ton bomb using household items including a rice ladle, a grocer's scale and plastic bags.

Japanese Emperor Akihito hospitalized for tests

Japan's Imperial Household Agency says Emperor Akihito has been hospitalized for tests.

U.S. officials: Al-Qaida behind Syria bombings

The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida, seeking to exploit the bloody turmoil in Syria to reassert its potency, carried out two recent bombings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and likely was behind suicide bombings Friday that killed at least 28 people in the largest city, Aleppo, U.S. officials told McClatchy Newspapers.

U.S. officials: Al Qaida behind Syria bombings

The Iraqi branch of al Qaida, seeking to exploit the bloody turmoil in Syria to reassert its potency, carried out two recent bombings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and likely was behind suicide bombings Friday that killed at least 28 people in the largest city, Aleppo, U.S. officials told McClatchy.

Chavez has opponent in Venezuela election

Once jailed governor hopes to give Hugo Chávez a run for the presidency Henrique Capriles, the energetic governor of Venezuela’s Miranda state, is leading the polls for Sunday’s opposition primary election. The winner will face President Chávez in October.

Bus rollover injures about 30 people

The general manager of a Canadian motorcoach travel company says about 30 people have been injured after a bus rolled over on a highway near Edmonton, Alberta.

DEA: Mexican governor got millions in drug cash

U.S. drug agents have evidence that cartel leaders paid millions to a Mexican border state governor and other figures in Mexico's former ruling party in exchange for political influence, according to a court filing in Texas.

2 Venezuelans to court for posing kids with guns

Venezuelan prosecutors say two women have been ordered to appear in court for allegedly posing children with assault rifles during a public event organized by an armed group that supports President Hugo Chavez.

Haiti 'Baby Doc' case spurs claim of gov't sway

Before President Michel Martelly took office in May 2011, Haiti's top prosecutor had recommended that former strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier face trial for the abuses associated with his 15-year rule.

Argentine rights workers to Spain: Lay off Garzon

The president of the Argentine human rights group Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo said Friday that Spain's prosecution of crusading judge Baltasar Garzon is an "assault on the entire human race."

Italy: Wrecked cruise ship moves in rough seas

Italian officials say rough seas have increased movements of the crippled Costa Concordia and are thwarting the start of fuel removal a month after the cruise ship capsized off a Tuscan island.

Swiss detain man over gun linked to German murders

Swiss police have detained a man in connection with a gun used by a German neo-Nazi group suspected of killing 10 people.