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The town of Kanyaruchinya is seen from the last United Nations peacekeeper outpost along the road leading north, into M23 rebel territory, from Goma in eastern Congo, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Congo's capital far to the west for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma, where a new U.N. military brigade is being formed to attack rebel groups and bring stability to the mineral-rich region.(AP Photo/Alain Wandimoyi)

UN chief visits Goma, Congo

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, and specifically to Goma, for the first time ...

  • Updated: 12:50 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
U.S. Army veteran Mat Jasieniecki poses in the veteran's lounge at the Illini Union on the University of Illinois campus May 10, 2013, in Urbana, Ill. Jasieniecki is among a growing number of veterans enrolled on the Urbana-Champaign campus. There are 404 student veterans, most of them undergraduates, and about 75 percent served in either Iraq or Afghanistan, according to Nicholas Osborne, a veteran and assistant dean who advises the Illini Veterans student group. (AP Photo/The News-Gazette, Darrell Hoemann) MANDATORY CREDIT

SPOTLIGHT: Graduating veteran made mark

Mat Jasieniecki readily admits that after he graduated from high school, he partied a bit too much, and after a while his grandparents told him to shape up. Jasieniecki, who was born in Poland and raised primarily by his grandparents in the south suburbs of Chicago, was always a curious ...

  • Updated: 11:02 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, speaks during a security conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The top Russian military officer has warned the West that Moscow reserves the right to take steps in response to the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plans for Europe if it sees it as a threat. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russia wary of deeper nuclear arms cuts

Russia's top military officer on Thursday voiced skepticism about deeper nuclear arms cuts, saying they should require parallel reductions in non-nuclear precision weapons. The statement by chief of Russia's military General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, appeared to signal the Kremlin's reluctance to negotiate a new nuclear arms deal with Washington. ...

  • Updated: 10:19 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hostages, gunfire in Kiev counterterrorism drill

Gunshots, smoke and helicopters have all been part of a counterterrorism drill in the center of the Ukrainian capital aimed at training the security services to respond to hostage-takings. Thursday's drill was held on the premises of the Israeli Embassy in Kiev, though officials stressed that the embassy faces no ...

  • Updated: 9:12 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

2 dozen Ky. museums take part in Blue Star program

Two dozen Kentucky museums and other attractions are offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families starting Monday and continuing through Labor Day. They're among more than 2,000 locations opening their doors at no charge to military personnel and up to five family members. The "Blue Star Museums" ...

  • Updated: 4:01 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Military gets free admission to OH amusement park

Current and former members of the U.S. military will get free admission to Kings Island amusement park in southwest Ohio over Memorial Day weekend. The park says a valid military ID must be presented at the Kings Island ticket window to take advantage of the free admission offer which runs ...

  • Updated: 3:03 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Couple donates collection to Silver City library

SILVER CITY, N.M. - A Deming couple has donated a collection of research materials on 1st Lt. Charles Gatewood of the 6th U.S. Calvary, to the Silver City Public Library. The couple, Robert and Wilma Knox, embarked on the research about 10 years ago, after they had retired to Deming ...

  • Updated: 2:02 a.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

AP Weekly News Calendar

?Thursday, May 23: JERUSALEM — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — British Foreign Secretary William Hague meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. RAMALLAH, West Bank — British ...

  • Updated: 10:56 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. The U.S. will refocus its attention on homegrown terror threats against Americans, President Barack Obama will say in a Thursday speech that is forecast as skimpy on any new sweeping policies. The move reflects the global fragmentation of al-Qaida’s top leaders as the U.S. tries to safeguard against attacks like last month’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more ...

  • Updated: 10:44 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Artillery Place road is closed in Woolwich southeast London near the scene where British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack on Wednesday May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ansell/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears

Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took ...

  • Updated: 9:18 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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