CAIRO - Egyptian security forces are killing an increasing number of Darfurian refugees and other African migrants attempting to cross from Egypt's Sinai desert into Israel in pursuit of jobs and a better life, according to refugees, human rights groups, and the Egyptian government.By: Ellen Knickmeyer|Date: Sep 15, 2008

HARWEEL OIL FIELDS, Oman - Sirens and air monitors surround the more-than-$1 billion oil installation rising off the flat, rock-strewn desert floor in Harweel oil fields in the 120-degree heat of Oman's interior.By: Ellen Knickmeyer|Date: Aug 24, 2008

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia -- US and European envoys failed yesterday to win a commitment from Kosovo's rebels to attend peace talks described as the "last chance" for the combatants to resolve their differences peacefully.

In another sign the talks are far from a done deal, President Slobodan Milosevic's government in Belgrade announced that the hard-line Serbian parliament would decide Thursday whether the Serbs will show up for Saturday's conference in France.

By: Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press|Date: Feb 2, 1999

ROME -- Edith Stein, the Orthodox Jew-turned-Catholic nun whom Pope John Paul II is elevating to sainthood tomorrow, once offered her life in atonement for the sins of her "unbelieving" people.

Today, those words of Stein, who was killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, are disquieting to many Catholics and angering to many Jews.

By: Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press Writer|Date: Oct 10, 1998