INDIAN POLITICAL BRAWLING SHOWS RAPE A VOTER ISSUE
By KATY DAIGLE FILE – In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, activists of Indian National Congress with black bands around their mouths block traffic during a protest against…
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VIOLENCE, BOYCOTT MAR ELECTIONS IN BANGLADESH
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi policemen stand guard as a man walks by on a street during a nationwide 48-hour strike called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a…
RAPID FALL FOR ARMY GENERAL ACC– USED OF SEX CRIMES
By MICHAEL BIESECKER FILE – In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, file photo, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair leaves a Fort Bragg, N.C., courthouse after he deferred entering a…
TALIBAN ATTACK KILLS 1 NATO SOLDIER IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan officials investigate the site of a deadly suicide attack on a joint NATO-Afghan base in the Ghani Khail district of Nangarhar province, east of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 4,…
BANGLADESH VOTE UNLIKELY TO STEM WAVE OF VIOLENCE
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi policemen check passengers riding on a rickshaw during a nationwide 48-hour strike called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a day before general elections…
PASSENGERS RESCUED OFF SHIP STUCK IN ANTARCTIC ICE
By ROD McGUIRK In this photo provided China’s official Xinhnua News Agency, the first group of passengers of the trapped Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy arrive at a safe surface…
PAKISTAN’S MUSHARRAF NO SHOW IN COURT; BOMB FOUND
By REBECCA SANTANA A Pakistani female police officer stands alert outside a court set up for the trial of Pakistan’s former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, Pakistan,…
CAMBODIAN POLL PROTESTERS JOINED BY WORKERS AGAIN
Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy, center right, and his party Cambodia National Rescue Party’s Vice President Kem Sokha, center left, wave during a mass demonstration at the on the main…