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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has prostate cancer
CESAR GARCIA, Associated Press
October 2, 2012
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday that he has prostate cancer. He said the tumor was caught early and would be removed this week.
Protests against film spread in Mideast; 1 killed
Aya Batrawy and Lee Keath, Associated Press
September 14, 2012
Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries Friday. Protesters smashed into the German Embassy in the Sudanese capital and set part of it on fire and climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, waving an Islamist banner.
US official: Marine team sent to Yemen
Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press
September 14, 2012
An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital Friday in the wake of violence and protests at the U.S. Embassy, the Pentagon said.
Security boosted at US sites after Libya attack
Robert H. Reid, Associated Press
September 13, 2012
U.S. embassies across the world ramped up security Thursday following an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, as Muslims angry over an anti-Islam film stormed the U.S. mission in Yemen and clashed with police near the American mission in Cairo.
Libyan security official: Consulate attack said to be 2-part militant assault
Osama Alfitory, Associated Press
September 13, 2012
The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador, was an organized two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and U.S. security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday.
Protesters storm US Embassy in Yemen in new attack
Ahmed Al-Haj, Associated Press
September 13, 2012
Chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel,” hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital and burned the American flag on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in the Middle East.
US investigates whether diplomat attacks were planned
Matthew Lee, Associated Press
September 12, 2012
The Obama administration, roiled by the first killing of a U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and not a spontaneous mob enraged over an anti-Islam YouTube video
Obama condemns attack that killed envoy, 3 others
Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
09:53 a.m., September 12, 2012 Updated 01:48 p.m.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned attacks on a U.S. consulate in eastern Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three American members of his staff. He ordered increased security at U.S. diplomatic posts around the world.
US ambassador killed in consulate attack in Libya
Esam Mohamed and Maggie Michael, Associated Press
08:48 a.m., September 12, 2012 Updated 10:17 a.m.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Norway shooter Breivik deemed sane, sentenced to prison
Karl Ritter, Associated Press
August 24, 2012
A Norwegian court sentenced Anders Behring Breivik to prison on Friday, denying prosecutors the insanity ruling they hoped would show that his massacre of 77 people was the work of a madman, not part of an anti-Muslim crusade.
Versailles wows KU men’s basketball team
By Jesse Newell
August 10, 2012
Following a two-hour tour of the Palace of Versailles on Friday, Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self felt a little young as an American.
Egyptian media reports Mubarak is ‘clinically dead’
Hamza Hendawi and Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press
04:38 p.m., June 19, 2012 Updated 10:40 p.m.
The Egyptian state news agency says former President Hosni Mubarak is “clinically dead.”
Gay marriage a distant dream around the world
Leon Drouin-Keith, Associated Press
May 10, 2012
China’s government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dragged them through the streets. In Egypt, laws prohibiting “shameless public acts” have been used to imprison gay men.
Ex-U.N. ambassador: U.S. taking wrong approach to foreign ‘trouble spots’
By Andy Hyland
April 4, 2012
A former United States ambassador to the United Nations called for an increased attention to international affairs Wednesday, arguing a strong America is critical to an economically prosperous one.
James Murdoch steps down as BSkyB chairman
Jill Lawless and Robert Barr, Associated Press
April 3, 2012
Once his father’s heir apparent, James Murdoch stepped down Tuesday as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, surrendering one of the biggest jobs in the Murdoch media empire in a bid to distance the broadcaster from a deepening phone hacking scandal.

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