MIGRANT SHIP CAPSIZES OFF ITALY, KILLING 94
By NICOLE WINFIELD Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward…
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NSA CHIEF ADMITS TESTING US CELLPHONE TRACKING
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and STEPHEN BRAUN National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct.…
VIETNAM DISSIDENT SENTENCED TO 30 MONTHS IN JAIL
By CHRIS BRUMMITT A U.S-trained lawyer and well-known dissident Le Quoc Quan, right, listens to the judge during his trial in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday Oct. 2, 2013. The Hanoi…
3 VENEZUELAN ENVOYS EXPELLED BY US IN RETALIATION
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, right, raises his arm as he stands with National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello during an event…
LEGAL CHALLENGES OF NEW OHIO EXECUTION DRUG LIKELY
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS FILE – In this November 2005 file photo, the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility is seen through glass from the witness room, in Lucasville,…
SECRETIVE VATICAN BANK TAKES STEP TO TRANSPARENCY
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, file photo, Italian financial police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.…
NC REPUBLICANS VOW TO FIGHT US DOJ OVER VOTER LAWS
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and PETE YOST FILE – In a June 30, 1982 file photo, President Ronald Reagan signs an expansion of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill during a ceremony…
LAWYER OF IRANIAN IN ISRAEL DENIES SPY ALLEGATIONS
Ali Mansouri, a Belgian-Iranian national, sits in a courtroom in Petah Tikvah near Tel Aviv, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. A lawyer for the Iranian accused of espionage in Israel said…