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Cayman opposition will lead coalition gov't

Election officials in the Cayman Islands say the opposition party has won nine of 18 seats, one short of a majority needed to control the British territory's legislature. The results released Thursday mean that attorney Alden McLaughlin's People's Progressive Movement will be the dominant force in a coalition government. Negotiations ...

  • Updated: 1:09 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
A team of climbers led by 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura stand on the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Miura on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a Nepali official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team said. The photo was taken with a telephoto lens from an altitude of 5,550 meters (18,208 feet). It is not clear which of the climbers in the photo is Miura. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest _ for now

An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him. Yuichiro Miura, a former extreme skier who also climbed the ...

  • Updated: 1:01 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
This undated file photo provided by French nuclear manufacturer Areva shows workers at the uranium mine of Arlit, northern Niger. Attackers in Niger detonated two car bombs at dawn on Thursday, May 23, 2013, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen people. Paris-based nuclear giant Areva said in a statement that 13 employees were hurt in the attack in Arlit, in the northern part of Niger where in 2010, al-Qaida's branch in Africa kidnapped five French citizens working for the mining company.(AP Photo/AREVA/HO) NO SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT: AREVA

26 killed in 2 simultaneous car bombs in Niger

Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. ...

  • Updated: 12:56 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Canadian businessman Sarkis Yacoubian, center, goes to court for the start of a corruption trial in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The trial of Yacoubian, who was president of import company Tri-Star Caribbean which was shuttered in July 2011, is under way nearly two years after he was detained. The anti-graft drive has swept up a number of foreign business executives and Cuban officials at major state-run companies. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba

A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his import company, Tri-Star Caribbean, was shuttered. Sarkis Yacoubian arrived at an Interior Ministry courthouse in Havana in a black sedan with tinted windows, and was ...

  • Updated: 12:54 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
File- In this May18, 2013 file photo, activists of a gay flash mob throw balloons into the air marking International Day Against Homophobia in Kiev, Ukraine. A Ukrainian court on Thursday, May 23, 2013, banned efforts to hold the country's first gay pride demonstration, upholding a complaint by authorities in the capital that the rally would disturb annual Kiev Day celebrations and could spark violence. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Court cancels Ukraine's first gay pride rally

A Ukrainian court on Thursday banned what would have been Ukraine's first-ever gay pride demonstration, upholding a suit by city authorities, who argued the rally would disturb annual Kiev Day celebrations and could spark violence. The ruling dashed the hopes of Ukraine's gay and lesbian community, who planned to use ...

  • Updated: 12:50 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
The town of Kanyaruchinya is seen from the last United Nations peacekeeper outpost along the road leading north, into M23 rebel territory, from Goma in eastern Congo, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Congo's capital far to the west for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma, where a new U.N. military brigade is being formed to attack rebel groups and bring stability to the mineral-rich region.(AP Photo/Alain Wandimoyi)

UN chief visits Goma, Congo

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, and specifically to Goma, for the first time ...

  • Updated: 12:50 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone

An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that Jude Kenan Mohammad died in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, ...

  • Updated: 12:41 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
AP10ThingsToSee - Cyclists ride on a mountainside road during the 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) cycling race, from Cesana to Col Du Galbier, Italy on Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Fabio Ferrari)

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see. This week's collection includes tornado devastation in Oklahoma, fighting in Syria and a scene from ...

  • Updated: 12:29 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
A money trader works under a screen indicating the U.S. dollar is traded at 103.08 yen at a foreign exchange company in Tokyo, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The dollar fell to 103 yen level. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Markets roiled by Nikkei's 7.3 percent slide

Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago. As a day of huge volatility ended in Europe, a steadier tone on Wall Street was emerging, easing concerns that the ...

  • Updated: 12:12 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi soldiers in central Iraq

Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month. The first skirmish took place in the early hours of Thursday when militants attacked an army check point in the town of ...

  • Updated: 11:53 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
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