International Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia , Saudi Arabia's finance minister says the kingdom has pledged $5 billion in grants and loans to Egypt's new government, a second major promise of aid from the Gulf to the cash-strapped country after the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.

House Republicans this week accused Argentina of trying to block their investigation into suspected Iranian ties to terrorism in the Western Hemisphere by refusing to let an Argentinian prosecutor testify on the matter Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has issued a warning to all foreigners and tourists who are in the country during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan: Abide all fasting rules, or else face punishment. The dictate applies to even those of different faiths.

Muslims on Twitter are expressing their outrage after President Obama tweeted his Ramadan wishes Monday night. "'I wish Muslims across America and around the world a month blessed with the joys of family, peace and understanding,' ,President Obama #Ramadan," he said. But some Muslims are thinking the president's greeting was not so sincere.

The Qatari-owned media company Al-Jazeera saw 22 members of its staff in Egypt resign on Monday over what they allege was "biased coverage" of the events that unfolded in Cairo last week. Al-Jazeera correspondent Haggag Salama was among those who resigned, accusing the station of "airing lies and misleading viewers," Gulf News reported Monday.

CAIRO , An opposition spokesman says pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister. Khaled Dawoud of the National Salvation Front, the main opposition grouping, told The Associated Press that interim President Adly Mansour will swear in ElBaradei on Saturday evening.

LA PAZ, Bolivia , NSA leaker Edward Snowden has yet another place to go, if only he can get there. Bolivian President Evo Morales says Snowden is welcome in his country. He said Saturday he is making the offer as a protest against the U.S. and European nations he accuses of temporarily blocking his flight home from a Moscow summit because they suspected his might have Snowden on board.

POTISKUM, Nigeria , Islamic militants attacked a boarding school before dawn Saturday, dousing a dormitory in fuel and lighting it ablaze as students slept, survivors said. At least 30 people were killed in the deadliest attack yet on schools in Nigeria's embattled northeast.

BYLAKUPPE, India , Thousands of Tibetans waved banners and danced and schoolchildren sang prayers Saturday at a Tibetan university in southern India in celebration of the Dalai Lama's 78th birthday. Speaking after an interfaith meeting, the Tibetans' spiritual leader called for love and compassion to promote world peace.

PAMPLONA, Spain , The start of the annual San Fermin bull-running festival was delayed briefly on Saturday by masked men who unfurled a huge Basque flag, blocking the view of a balcony where a rocket that officially marks the beginning of the revelry is launched.

DAKAR, Senegal , For more than 20 years, former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre lived a life of luxurious exile in Senegal, taking a second wife and watching "Seinfeld" shows. But 3,000 miles east...

CARACAS, Venezuela , The presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered Friday to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one day after leftist South American leaders gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane over Europe amid reports that the American was aboard.

CAIRO , Enraged Islamists pushed back against the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi, as tens of thousands of his supporters marched in Cairo on Friday to demand his reinstatement and attacked his opponents. Nighttime clashes raged with stone-throwing, firecrackers and gunfire, and military armored vehicles raced across a Nile River bridge in a counterassault on Morsi's supporters.

BEIRUT , Syrian government troops unleashed a major artillery barrage on the city of Homs on Friday, hitting buildings near a 13th century mosque as they pressed an assault on rebel-held areas in the country's strategic heartland.

MADRID , Spain on Friday said it had been warned along with other European countries that former U.S. intelligence worker Edward Snowden was aboard the Bolivian presidential plane this week, an acknowledgement that the manhunt for the fugitive leaker had something to do with the plane's unexpected diversion to Austria.