Guatemalan court upholds top prosecutor's ouster

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Supreme Court upheld its ruling that the country’s crusading attorney general must step down in May, seven months before her term was to end, drawing complaints from human rights activists who back her efforts to prosecute civil war-era military officials.

Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz had asked the top court to reconsider its original ruling, which supported a claim that Paz’s four-year term technically began in May 2010, when the official she replaced was appointed, and not in December 2010, when she took the post.