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UN: Ivory, charcoal funds criminal, terror groups 06/24/2014 05:26pm • JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Environmental crime such as the poaching of elephants for ivory and the selling of illegal charcoal is helping to finance criminal, militia and terrorists groups, said a report from the United Nations Environment Program released Tuesday.The So C African Republic at risk of genocide, says group 06/24/2014 10:41am • PAUL SCHEMM Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- In the early hours of Monday morning, a Christian militia swept down on the village of Ardo-Djobi near Bambari in the Central African Republic killing 18 Muslims of the Fulani ethnicity. Just a few days earlier, Muslim gunmen had attacked Christian Defendant ill, Bangladesh war crimes trial delayed 06/24/2014 06:10am • JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A Bangladesh court Tuesday delayed a verdict against the top leader of an Islamist party charged with war crimes after the defendant became ill.A special tribunal was set to deliver the verdict for Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, who Outcry after Egypt sentences 3 reporters to prison 06/24/2014 06:04am • SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to seven years in prison on terrorism-related charges after a trial dismissed by rights groups as a politically motivated sham. The verdict brought a landslide of intern Reporter's father says stunned by Egypt decision 06/24/2014 01:43am • ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The father of an Australian journalist jailed in Egypt said his family was stunned by the court's decision to imprison his son, and Australia's prime minister vowed his government would work quickly to free the reporter and get him out of Cair Seattle council OKs city's 1st female police chief 06/23/2014 08:40pm • SEATTLE (AP) -- A former leader of Boston's police force was sworn in Monday to run a Seattle department that has been struggling to carry out a reform agreement under federal oversight.The City Council on Monday approved hiring Kathleen O'Toole as Seattle's new police chief. The one-time Boston pol US wants Insane Clown Posse lawsuit dismissed 06/23/2014 07:22pm • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Lawyers for the federal government and fans of rap-metal duo Insane Clown Posse clashed in court Monday over whether the FBI can be sued for the negative fallout of describing them as a loosely organized gang.Some fans, called Juggalos, claim to have lost cu Judge strikes down Montana immigrant law 06/23/2014 03:29pm • MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana judge struck down most of a 2012 voter-approved law requiring government officials to conduct immigration checks on anybody seeking services provided by the state -- from unemployment benefits to crime-victim assistance.The law, which aims t Justices uphold broad use of anti-bank fraud law 06/23/2014 11:50am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the broad application of a federal anti-bank fraud law.The justices sustained the bank fraud conviction of Kevin Loughrin, who used stolen checks as part of a scheme to take merchandise and cash from a Target store in Utah. Using che Top NY prosecutor confronts criticism from India 06/23/2014 01:16am • LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- After years of silence on the issue, India-born U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has begun to open up about the cultural scorn he has faced over his high-profile prosecutions of South Asian defendants, particularly that of an Indian diplomat that led to Ugandans drum alarms to rescue abducted children 06/22/2014 01:04pm • RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press BUIKWE, Uganda (AP) -- When a child goes missing in this central Ugandan district, villagers beat drums into a pulsing rhythm that sends rescuers scampering through bushes. Others, riding motorcycles, try to block exit routes.In response to the kidnappings and ritual Hong Kong irks Beijing with democracy vote 06/22/2014 12:26pm • KELVIN CHAN Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers lined up to vote Sunday, joining hundreds of thousands of others who cast electronic ballots in the first three days of an unofficial referendum on democratic reform that Beijing has blasted as a farce.Tensions have soa Orchestrated tales in ex-Blackwater guards' trial? 06/22/2014 07:06am • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense lawyers for the ex-Blackwater security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqis in Baghdad nearly seven years ago are raising the possibility that prosecution witnesses, with direction from Iraqi law enforcement investigators, have orchestrated their $40M settlement reached in Central Park rape case 06/21/2014 05:52pm • JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- With New York awash in murder and drugs, the 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger by what was said to be a gang of "wilding" teens was seen as evidence of a city sliding into lawlessness. A quarter-century later, it stands instead as a $40 Spain's new king meets terror victims at 1st act 06/21/2014 08:06am • MADRID (AP) -- Spain's new king and queen have met victims of terrorism in their first official act together since being proclaimed monarchs.In his first speech as king at his proclamation in Parliament on Thursday, King Felipe VI said those who had been victims of terrorist violence, who "lost thei