GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Mitt Romney is fighting to avoid an embarrassing home-state loss in a high-stakes Michigan primary that will not decide the Republican presidential contest but could scar the former Massachusetts governor just a week before Super Tuesday. Rival Rick Santorum is calling upon an unusual coalition of tea party activists, religious […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Two activist groups say a British journalist who was wounded in Syria last week has been smuggled to neighboring Lebanon. The Syrian opposition group Local Coordination Committees and global group Avaaz said today that Paul Conroy was the only foreign journalist to escape to Lebanon. Rima Fleihan, an LCC spokeswoman, said Conroy […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A French fishing vessel today began towing an Italian cruise ship drifting powerless in the Indian Ocean to a nearby Seychelles island, but was not expected to reach the tiny resort island until Wednesday, officials said. Seychelles authorities said they are making arrangements to evacuate people to the island of Desroches […]

MANSEHRA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen wearing military uniforms stopped a convoy of buses in northern Pakistan today, ordered selected passengers to get off and then killed 16 of them in an apparent sectarian attack, the police and a lawmaker said. The victims were Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan that is frequently targeted by extremists.

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese government withheld information about the full danger of last year’s nuclear disaster from its own people and from the United States, putting U.S.-Japan relations at risk in the first days after the accident, according to an independent report released today. The report, compiled from interviews with more than 300 people, […]