2014 frustrates US hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace
By LARA JAKES Secretary of State John Kerry is ending 2014 much in the same way he started it, frustrated in efforts to push Israel and Palestinians toward peace. With…
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GAZA ROCKET LANDS NEAR ISRAEL’S MAIN AIRPORT
By TIA GOLDENBERG and KARIN LAUB Israeli police officers secure a destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv…
Iraq: al-Maliki’s rivals jockey to replace him
By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA FILE – This Dec. 3, 2011 file photo shows Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki talks during an interview with The Associated Press in…
Kerry demands end to sexual violence in war zones
By SYLVIA HUI Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a meeting between President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Thursday, June 12, 2014, in the Oval Office…
SYRIA PEACE TALKS IN DOUBT AFTER 6TH DAY IN GENEVA
By JOHN HEILPRIN UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks during a news conference after closing the second round of negotiation between the Syrian government and the opposition at…
UN: ‘UNSPEAKABLE SUFFERING’ FOR SYRIA’S CHILDREN
By BARBARA SURK FILE – In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in…
SYRIAN PEACE TALKS STUCK OVER ASSAD’S FUTURE
By MATTHEW LEE and ZEINA KARAM U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prior to the Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan.…
C. AFRICAN REPUBLIC CHOOSES MAYOR AS NEW LEADER
By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA and KRISTA LARSON In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 photo, a French soldier looks on as the body of a lynched Muslim man is burned by a…