ISLAMABAD, May 24 (AP/UNB) — President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies— Pakistan and Yemen.But...

Mount Vernon, May 24 (AP/UNB) - Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust.""I hit the brakes and we went off,...

KATMANDU, May 24(AP/UNB) — A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain.The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a re...

SRINAGAR, May 24(AP/UNB) — An official says suspected rebels have ambushed and fatally shot three Indian army soldiers in the Indian portion of Kashmir.Lt. Col. Ankur Vashist, an army spokesman, says the soldiers were ...

OSAKA, May 24(AP/UNB) — Two Korean former sex slaves have canceled a meeting with an outspoken Japanese mayor who last week said Japan's wartime practice of using many Asian women as prostitutes was necessary to mainta...

MOUNT VERNON, May 24(AP/UNB) — The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed late Thursday, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river, ...

MANILA, May 24(AP/UNB) — Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.The book "Inferno," which is bein...

BEIJING, May 24 (AP/UNB) — A North Korean envoy, on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China, heeded Beijing's wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media said.The accounts...

NIAMEY, May 24 (AP/UNB) — Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, kil...

NEW YORK, May 24 (AP/UNB) — A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight and held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid while being held for a ...