JERUSALEM (AP) -- A young Palestinian woman who was imprisoned for 10 years in a series of dark rooms by her father said Monday she survived the ordeal by listening to the radio, dreaming of seeing sunshine again and finding small pleasure in an apple she was fed each day.Baraa Melhem, 20, said she was enjoying her first taste of freedom after a decade of isolation and threats of rape and abuse, and she hopes to use her experience to help others.“I have joy now. My life has begun,” the young wom

PARIS (AP) ― France’s parliament voted Monday to make it a crime to deny that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constituted a genocide, risking more sanctions from Turkey and complicating an already delicate relationship with the rising power.Turkey, which sees the allegations of genocide as a threat to its national honor, suspended military, economic and political ties and briefly recalled its ambassador last month when the lower house of parliament approved the sa

HELSINKI (AP) ― By selecting two pro-European candidates for a presidential runoff, Finnish voters rebelled against the image of their country as inward-looking and euroskeptic that took shape after the populist True Finns surged in last year’s parliamentary elections.The winner of Sunday’s presidential vote, Conservative Sauli Niinisto, will face Greens candidate Pekka Haavisto in a runoff next month. Niinisto got 37 percent while Haavisto got 18.8 percent of the votes, to secure a place in the

Savoring unexpected victory over front-runner Romney, ex-house speaker seeks to stir up Republican raceWASHINGTON (AP) ― Newt Gingrich moves on to Florida savoring a major upset victory over Mitt Romney, who will be looking to reset his once front-running campaign with a focus on attacking his chief rival’s character.Romney is making his second run for the Republican presidential nomination, this time to unseat President Barack Obama in the November election. But the former Massachusetts governo

HAVANA (AP) ― Amnesty International said Monday that three Cubans held without charge for 52 days following their arrest at a protest were released last week, hours after the human rights group named them as prisoners of conscience.The release of the three also came a day after a hunger-striking dissident died, prompting condemnation from island dissidents, rights watchers, the United States and other nations. Amnesty had planned to designate Wilman Villar, 31, a prisoner of conscience but he di

The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police need a search warrant before tracking a suspect with a GPS device, in a case involving privacy and 21st century technology.The highest US court ruled 9-0 that police had violated the rights of a suspected drug dealer when they placed a GPS, or Global

An Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops has said he did it because of a recent video showing US Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban insurgents, security sources told AFP.The attack on the soldiers, who were unarmed, came on Friday at a base in eastern Afghanistan and left 15 o

TEHRAN (AP) ― An earthquake of moderate strength caused damage and injured 100 people in the city of Neyshabour in the northeast part of Iran Thursday afternoon, Iran’s state TV reported.The TV report said 17 of the injured were hospitalized and the others were treated for minor injuries and released.As the quake rumbled through the area, many residents of the city fled their homes into the streets. Rescue teams were still at work in the area late Thursday.The magnitude 5.5 quake shattered windo

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AFP) ― Divers combed the wreck of an Italian liner for a sixth day on Thursday, as leaked phone transcripts showed a ship’s officer misleading coast guards about the scale of the disaster.The unidentified officer insisted that there had only been “a blackout” on board some 40 minutes after the giant Costa Concordia crashed into rocks off the picturesque Tuscan island of Giglio on Friday and lurched on to its side.Eleven bodies have so far been recovered, with officials sayi

A US Iraq veteran was charged Tuesday over the deaths of four homeless people in California, police said, adding that the alleged serial killer had selected more victims before he was arrested.Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, of Yorba Linda, was caught on Friday after witnesses chased him from the scene of the

RABAT, Morocco (AP) _ Five unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire in the capital Rabat as part of widespread demonstrations in the country over the lack of jobs, especially for university graduates, a rights activist said Thursday. Three were burned badly enough to be hospitalized.Self-immol

YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- It’s getting a bit more crowded under the sea in Asia, where Andrew Peterson commands one of the world’s mightiest weapons: a $2 billion nuclear submarine with unrivaled stealth and missiles that can devastate targets hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.Super high-tech submarines like Cmdr. Peterson’s USS Oklahoma City have long been the envy of navies all over the globe -- and a key component of U.S. military strategy.“We really have no peer,” Peterson told the Associate