KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan police have shot and killed three protesters in two separate incidents in the north and south of the country where riots broke out during demonstrations over this week's Quran burnings incident.
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia started moving foreign inmates, women and children out of an overcrowded prison on Bali island Thursday after two days of rioting, officials said, as troops backed by water canons and armored vehicles surrounded the tense facility.
CAIRO (AP) — Security officials in Cairo say an American woman facing criminal charges as part of Egypt's crackdown on foreign-funded pro-democracy organizations has been barred from boarding an international flight.
BEIJING (AP) — A U.S nuclear envoy said Thursday he held substantive talks with North Korea on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programs in return for aid and would continue the negotiations into second day.
ROME (AP) — Current approaches to global agriculture are outdated, inefficient and don't give small farmers in poor countries the help they really need, Bill Gates told U.N. food agencies Thursday as he announced nearly $200 million in grants.
NEW DELHI (AP) — A sensitive debate over gay sex in India was thrown into farcical confusion Thursday after a government lawyer urged the Supreme Court to ban it — only for the government to issue a contradictory statement hours later, saying it accepts a recent ruling that made it legal.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The international Red Cross is asking for nearly $3 million to help desperate Mozambicans left homeless and hungry by storms that struck the southeastern African nation last month.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Nigeria's former president on Thursday met with several Senegalese opposition leaders, including pop star and former presidential aspirant Youssou Ndour, in an effort to broker a solution to the country's political malaise ahead of a tense presidential vote.
