| Paris attack suspect Abdeslam tight-lipped in first interrogation Posted: 20 May 2016 10:42 AM PDT  The last surviving member of the jihadist team that attacked Paris, Salah Abdeslam, refused to answer questions in his first interview with a French anti-terror judge on Friday. Authorities had hoped Abdeslam would shed some light on the operational details of the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people, as well as provide clues as to whether other members of the wider jihadist cell are still at large. A source close to the investigation said Abdeslam's silence may have been the result of advice from Mehdi Nemmouche, the man suspected of a shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014.
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| EgyptAir plane wreckage 'found' in Mediterranean Posted: 20 May 2016 04:03 AM PDT  Egypt's military found wreckage Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean as investigators tried to unravel the mystery of why it swerved suddenly and plummeted into the sea. Search teams spotted personal belongings of passengers and parts of the Airbus A320 about 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, the military spokesman said. Egypt's aviation minister said on Thursday that a "terrorist attack" was a more likely cause than technical failure for the plane's disappearance from radar screens on a flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board.
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| Search resumes for missing EgyptAir jet Posted: 20 May 2016 01:51 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — The search continued on Friday for missing EgyptAir flight 804, which disappeared from the radar while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo.
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| 200,000 flee capital as Sri Lanka flood misery worsens Posted: 20 May 2016 12:26 AM PDT  Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to flee their flooded capital as fresh downpours elsewhere hampered relief efforts. The heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded the island since last weekend, sparking huge landslides that have buried victims in up to 50 feet (15 metres) of mud. Large parts of Colombo were evacuated overnight in an operation led by the military, involving boats and helicopters.
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| Taiwan installs 1st woman president amid tension with China Posted: 19 May 2016 09:11 PM PDT  TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan inaugurated Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president on Friday, returning the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party to power amid new concerns over increasingly fractious relations with Beijing and a flagging economy.
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| San Francisco's police chief resigns amid racial issues Posted: 19 May 2016 05:57 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's police chief has resigned at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot a young black woman driving a stolen car and amid other racial issues.
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| Oklahoma lawmakers OK bill criminalizing performing abortion Posted: 19 May 2016 05:39 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill's sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
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| Air-sea search intensifies for missing EgyptAir plane Posted: 19 May 2016 05:05 PM PDT  A massive search was under way Thursday for the wreckage of an EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, in what the Egyptian authorities said may have been an act of terrorism. Egypt's aviation minister said that while it was too soon to say why the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo had vanished from radar screens, a "terrorist" attack would be a more likely scenario than a technical failure. The tragedy raised fears of a repeat of the bombing of a Russian passenger jet by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group over Egypt last October that killed all 224 people on board.
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