RELATIVE: EGYPTIAN FAMILY REJECTS ISRAEL HONOR
By MARIAM RIZK and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER FILE – In this Monday Sept. 30, 2013 file photo, Irena Steinfeldt, an official at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, shows a certificate recognizing…
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ARAB LEAGUE: SYRIA CONFERENCE SET FOR NOV. 23-24
By DIAA HADID ADDS NAME – Abbas Hammoud, one of the nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims who were kidnapped by a rebel faction in northern Syria in May 2012, is embraced…
SAUDI ARABIA REJECTS SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL
By AYA BATRAWY and EDITH M. LEDERER FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria…
APNEWSBREAK: NEW CHARGES IN BLACKWATER SHOOTINGS
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER and ERIC TUCKER FILE – In this Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in…
DUTCH DIPLOMAT BEATEN IN MOSCOW AT TIME OF TENSION
By LYNN BERRY A woman walks past the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. A Dutch diplomat was beaten up by two unidentified men…
KERRY, EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF ASHTON HOLD TALKS
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. U.S.…
LIBYA PM LASHES OUT AT MILITIAS AFTER ABDUCTION
By ESAM MOHAMED Security forces work at the site where a car bomb went off outside the building housing Swedish and Finnish consulates on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Libya’s…
REPORTS: MOM VISITS AMERICAN DETAINED IN NKOREA
By ERIC TALMADGE Kenneth Bae, right, an American man detained in North Korea for the past 11 months, and his mother Myunghee Bae talk each other during their meeting at…