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Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:29am

(AP) — The European Union's arms embargo to Syria should be extended while a political solution is sought in its civil war and to maintain the safety of U.N. peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, Austria's foreign minister said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:26am

(AP) — At least 22 aftershocks have struck following an earthquake in far northeastern California that was felt as far away as San Francisco and in two other states.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:20am

(AP) — Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days a British soldier was killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:19am

(AP) — World stocks edged lower on Friday, a day after markets around the world dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary stimulus.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:12am

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS medications.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:08am

(AP) — Hours after denying that jihadists in the city of Agadez had taken several soldiers hostage, Niger's minister of defense corrected the record in an interview with The Associated Press, saying that in fact two hostages had been found and have now been released.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:00am

(AP) — Actress Marion Cotillard has given her all and even learned another language to play a Polish woman struggling with the realities of 1920s New York in James Gray's terse movie, "The Immigrant."

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 10:00am

(AP) — An American man accused of killing a family of four in the Czech Republic has been arrested in the United States, police said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:59am

(AP) — A truck carrying an oversize load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though all three occupants suffered only minor injuries.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:59am

(AP) — The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country's civil war, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday, the first confirmation that President Bashar Assad's regime would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:58am

(AP) — UK police: 2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan to England diverted.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:57am

(AP) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to sign a free trade pact with the Alpine nation — the first comprehensive agreement the country has reached with a major western economy.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:56am

(AP) — A look at legislation passed in Turkey's parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages, and how such a law could affect tourists and liquor companies in the mainly Muslim but secular country.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:55am

(AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging African leaders to implement a plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo after years of turmoil.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:51am

(AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:47am

(AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, putting the market on track for its first weekly loss after four weeks of gains.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:37am

(AP) — A British fighter jet was launched to divert a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan to England after an incident on board, British officials said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:34am

(AP) — An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:32am

(AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 9:26am

(AP) — Britain's Ministry of Defense says a Typhoon jet has been launched to investigate an incident involving a civilian aircraft.