BODIES LITTER SOUTH SUDAN OIL TOWN; TALKS RESUME
By ILYA GRIDNEFF Civilians who fled the recent fighting stack their belongings up outside the gate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound, hoping to benefit from…
Africa
PRESIDENT: BETRAY RWANDA, FACE CONSEQUENCES
FILE – In this May 22, 2007 file photo, Rwandan president Paul Kagame during a conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Opposition leaders have accused Kagame of ordering the assassination of Rwanda’s…
BLACK RHINO HUNTING PERMIT AUCTIONED FOR $350,000
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and MICHAEL GRACZYK Bob Fretwell of Mesquite, Texas, holds a sign protesting outside the Dallas Convention Center where the Dallas Safari Club is holding it’s weekend show…
BODY OF ISRAEL’S ARIEL SHARON LIES IN STATE
By ARON HELLER Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Knesset plaza, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Sharon, the…
ARIEL SHARON, FORMER ISRAELI PM, DIES AT 85
By JOSEF FEDERMAN FILE – In this Wednesday Feb. 7, 2001 file photo, Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s Prime Minister-elect, looks up as he touches Judaism holiest site, the Western Wall,…
C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT, PM STEPPING DOWN
By ABUBAKAR MOHAMMED and KRISTA LARSON FILE _ This is a Thursday Dec. 19, 2013 file photo of Michel Djotodia, Central African Republic’s president, as he walks back to the…
ABE HEADS TO AFRICA TO BOOST JAPAN’S PROFILE
By KEN MORITSUGU Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, and his wife Akie wave as they depart for Africa, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Abe is…
ISRAEL: MIGRANTS PROTEST OUTSIDE FOREIGN EMBASSIES
By IAN DEITCH African migrants protest in front of the American Embassy demanding asylum and work rights from the Israeli government, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. About…