UN EXPERT URGES US TO REVEAL CIVILIAN DRONE DEATHS
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT FILE – In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. A U.N.…
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CHINESE GROWTH REBOUND SHORES UP WORLD MARKETS
By PAN PYLAS People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm as Japan’s bench mark Nikkei 225 Index closed at 14,588.51 after gaining 119.37 points, or 0.83…
AFGHAN INSURGENTS HIT CONVOY BY FOREIGNER COMPOUND
By AMIR SHAH Afghan police secure the area after a car bomb detonated outside an ISAF civilian personnel compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct 18, 2013. Police said the assault…
FUNERAL HELD FOR ASSASSINATED AFGHAN GOVERNOR
Humera Ehmedzai, a colleague of slain Afghan governor Arsallah Jamal, who’s picture is on the wall behind her, cries at his funeral ceremony at the Eid Gha mosque in Kabul,…
TYPHOON, MUDSLIDES KILL 17 IN JAPAN; 50 MISSING
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Rescue workers look for survivors as they stand on the rubble of a house buried by mudslides after a powerful typhoon hit Oshima on Izu Oshima island,…
TRIAL OF CAMBODIA’S KHMER ROUGE LEADERS NEARS END
By JUSTINE DRENNAN FILE – In this Aug. 29, 2011 file photo released by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nuon Chea, who was Pol Pot’s No. 2 and…
OBAMA PRESENTING MEDAL OF HONOR TO AFGHAN WAR VET
William Swenson of Seattle, Wash., stands with a group of World War II veterans during a 10th Mountain Division ceremony at the WWII Memorial Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 in Washington.…
MAJOR QUAKE SHAKES CENTRAL PHILIPPINES, KILLS 20
By OLIVER TEVES Filipinos stand by a damaged Basilica Del Sto Nino in Cebu, central Philippines Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake collapsed buildings, cracked roads and toppled the…