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BEIJING (AP) – Authorities in southwestern China had apparently thought their Cultural Revolution-style public sentencing of eight workers who took to the streets demanding back wages would stand as a warning to others at a time of a slowing economy and rising worker unrest. Instead, the parading of the three …

HAVANA (AP) – The Rolling Stones unleashed two hours of shrieking, thundering rock and roll on an ecstatic crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans and foreign visitors Friday night, capping one of the most momentous weeks in modern Cuban history with a massive celebration of music that was once …

HAVANA (AP) – After more than 50 years in the music business, the Rolling Stones can still break new ground. On Friday, it was by playing a free concert in Cuba. A concert I just couldn’t miss. EDITOR’S NOTE – Associated Press Deputy International Sports Editor Chris Lehourites is a …

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Only months ago Mateusz Kijowski was a computer specialist unknown to the Polish public. Today the 47-year-old is leading the largest civic protest movement that Poland has seen since Lech Walesa’s Solidarity defied the communist regime. His Committee for the Defense of Democracy took form in …

BRUSSELS (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry defended Belgium’s counterterrorism efforts despite a series of security and intelligence failings in the run-up to the suicide bombings that killed 31 people this week. Confirming that several FBI agents are involved in the investigation into the attacks, Kerry said the …

BRUSSELS (AP) – The Latest on the suicide bombings this week in Brussels (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Belgian state media is reporting that two explosions have been heard and one person has been detained in police raids in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek. It is not clear whether the …

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Prospects of jumpstarting peace talks with the Taliban are becoming increasingly dim amid recent battlefield gains by the insurgents in Afghanistan, an embattled government in Kabul and growing suspicions of Pakistan’s good intentions in facilitating such negotiations. Even if Pakistan wanted to bring the warring sides to …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Day after day, North Korea boasts of new weapons programs developments and unleashes fiery threats to attack rivals South Korea and the United States. On Friday, for example, the North’s state media said it staged its largest-ever long-range artillery drills aimed at bringing the “most …

ISTANBUL (AP) – Two Turkish journalists went on trial on Friday on allegations that they revealed state secrets and helped a terror organization with their reports on alleged government-arms smuggling to Syrian rebels, in a closed-door trial that has increased concern about the erosion of media freedoms in Turkey. Cumhuriyet …

RYONGYON-RI, North Korea (AP) – The village elder put his shovel aside, stooped down by a scraggly bush and pulled a sack from the freshly turned dirt. Spreading open the sack, he reached in to reveal femurs, skull and jaw fragments, boots and a rusted green helmet. “These are your …