POPE TAPS VATICAN DIPLOMAT TO BE HIS TOP AIDE
By FRANCES D’EMILIO FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2009 file photo Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Vatican Undersecretary of State for Relations with States speaks during a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.…
Asia
NKOREA WITHDRAWS INVITE FOR US ENVOY
By MATTHEW LEE and MATTHEW PENNINGTON FILE – In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, Bob King, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, talks with…
HAGEL WRAPS UP DEFENSE TALKS WITH ASIAN ALLIES
By ROBERT BURNS U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrives for the group photo session before the start of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, Thursday, Aug.…
TALIBAN KILL 15 AFGHAN POLICE IN HIGHWAY AMBUSH
By PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ Afghan policemen investigate the site of a suicide attack in the provincial capital city of Laskar-Gah, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug, 28, 2013.…
BRITAIN PROPOSES SYRIA RESOLUTION; RUSSIA OBJECTS
By ALEXANDRA OLSON and PETER JAMES SPIELMANN Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Ja’afari speaks to reporters after a meeting about Syria at United Nations headquarters Wednesday, Aug. 28,…
TALIBAN KILL 12 AFGHAN CIVILIANS, AID WORKERS
By RAHIM FAIEZ An Afghan man looks at the lifeless bodies of his relatives at a hospital in Heart west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Afghan officials say…
UN RIGHTS CHIEF MEETS SRI LANKAN WAR SURVIVORS
Family members of disappeared Tamil people holding pictures of their relatives protest during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Aug.…
HAGEL: US MILITARY STANDS READY TO STRIKE SYRIA
By MATTHEW LEE and JULIE PACE FILE – This Aug. 26, 2013 file photo shows Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia. U.S. forces are now ready to act…