APNEWSBREAK: RODMAN CHECKS INTO REHAB CENTER
By DAN GELSTON Former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman is followed by journalists as he arrives at the Capital International Airport in Beijing from Pyongyang, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. Rodman…
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SUICIDE ATTACK ON AFGHAN RESTAURANT KILLS 21
By PATRICK QUINN Afghan security forces investigate the aftermath of Friday’s suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a…
EU POISED TO SUSPEND SOME SANCTIONS ON IRAN
BY JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Putin credited…
AFGHANISTAN’S FIRST FEMALE POLICE CHIEF STARTS JOB
Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police chief, Col. Jamila Bayaz, 50, left, talks on the phone at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police…
CHINA CONDEMNS JAPAN LEADER ON VISIT TO ETHIOPIA
By ELIAS MESERET Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, sits between Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, right, and Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission Erastus Mwencha, left, during Abe’s…
WORLD SEA PIRACY FALLS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR
By EILEEN NG FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, masked Somali pirate Hassan stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the…
UK ORDERS INQUIRY INTO BRITISH ROLE IN TEMPLE RAID
By RAPHAEL SATTER FILE – In this June 6, 1984 file photo, Indian troops take up position on rooftops around the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India, after soldiers started to…
AP PHOTOS: PROTESTERS TRY TO SHUT DOWN BANGKOK
Anti-government protesters with national flags gather for a rally Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Bangkok, Thailand. Anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Thailand’s capital Monday, halting much of the…