May 6, 2016 Alberta fire evacuees moved a 2nd time as weather shifts A massive, raging wild fire moved south and forced three more communities south of Canada's main oil sands city to evacuate on Thursday.
May 5, 2016 Brazilian justice suspends house speaker, foe of president A justice on Brazil's supreme court has suspended the leader of the country's lower house of Congress.
May 5, 2016 Evacuees forced to move a second time as raging Canadian wildfire shifts A massive wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta grew to 85,000 hectares (210,035 acres) and officials said Thursday they would like to move south about 25,000 evacuees who had previously fled north, including 8,000 by air.
May 5, 2016 Reports: Turkish PM to announce he is stepping down Turkish media reports say Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will call an emergency convention of his ruling party and announce that he is stepping down as premier, amid a growing rift with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
May 5, 2016 Iraq defeated IS in Ramadi at a high cost: A city destroyed The dust of thousands of wrecked buildings drifts over the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
May 5, 2016 Ex-CIA agent continues fight against extradition to Italy A former CIA agent has lodged another appeal at Portugal's Constitutional Court against her extradition to Italy to serve a four-year sentence for her part in the U.S. extraordinary renditions program.
May 5, 2016 Some howl over Alibaba's place in anti-counterfeiting group The prospect of sitting in a Hyatt Regency ballroom in Florida and listening to Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, deliver the keynote for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition's conference this month did not sit well with Michael Kors' general counsel.
May 5, 2016 Court files show bid to tar slain Honduran activist Caceres For months before her death, environmental activist Berta Caceres complained of repeated threats warning her to stop leading protests opposing a hydroelectric project on her Lenca people's ancestral lands.
May 5, 2016 Australia says most dangerous Australian IS operative killed Australia's most dangerous known Islamic State movement operative had been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq, the government said Thursday.
May 5, 2016 Wildfires cause chaos in Canada town At least half of a northern Alberta city was ordered evacuated Tuesday as a wildfire whipped by winds engulfed homes and sent ash raining down on residents.