WORKER AB– USE BY DIPLOMATS A PROBLEM, ADVOCATES SAY
By COLLEEN LONG FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Nahar Alam, second from right, a former domestic worker from Bangladesh, gestures towards the Indian Consulate in New…
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3 TURKISH CABINET MINISTERS RESIGN OVER PROBE
By SUZAN FRASER In this photo taken late Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, Turkey’s Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, right, Interior Minister Muammer Guler, center, and EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis speak…
INDIAN OFFICIAL: DIPLOMAT’S ARREST IN NYC BARBARIC
Indian police remove barricades that had been erected as a safety measure outside the main entrance of U.S Embassy, reportedly in retaliation to the alleged mistreatment of New York-based Indian…
GIRLFRIEND WANTS CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST ZIMMERMAN
By MIKE SCHNEIDER and CURT ANDERSON FILE – In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman, acquitted in the high-profile killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, listens…
6 DETAINED IN MEXICO THEFT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON A cameraman films the radiation head that was part of a radiation therapy machine, in the patio of the family who found…
KIEV PROTESTS CONTINUE, RESOLUTION ELUSIVE
By YURAS KARMANAU and JIM HEINTZ A protester collects firewood for heating in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Ukraine’s opposition failed to force out the government with…
THAI PM SAYS PROTESTERS’ DEMANDS UNACCEPTABLE
By THANYARAT DOKSONE and JOCELYN GECKER An Anti-government protester waves Thai National Flag under water cannon fired by police during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. After…
US: AMERICAN FIGHTERS IN SYRIA A SECURITY RISK
By EMERY P. DALESIO FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Wake County Sheriff’s Office via The News & Observer, shows Basit Javed Sheikh. Sheikh, 29, of Cary,…