Syria peace envoy: No talks without opposition
By ALBERT AJI UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks in a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. Brahimi urged during his days-long visit to Damascus…
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Bosnia digging up what could be biggest mass grave
By ELDAR EMRIC Forensic experts, members of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), and Bosnian workers search for human remains at a mass grave in the village of Tomasica,…
Kerry to Mideast, Europe on damage control mission
By MATTHEW LEE Secretary of State John Kerry speaks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, during a ceremony to dedicate a bust of Winston…
EXIT POLLS IN GEORGIA SHOW BIG WIN FOR PM’S CHOICE
By LYNN BERRY and MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI Georgian Dream ruling coalition’s presidential candidate Georgy Margvelashvili, left, kisses his daughter Anna, outside a polling station during presidential election in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday,…
CZECHS VOTE IN EARLY ELECTION, LEFTISTS FAVORITES
Chairman of Social Democratic party, Bohuslav Sobotka, answers questions to media after casting his vote during early elections in Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Czech Republic…
TESTS PROVE ROMA COUPLE ARE MYSTERY GIRL’S PARENTS
By VESELIN TOSHKOV and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS In this undated photo released by charity ”The Smile of the Child” shows a 4-year-old girl at an unknown location. Greek authorities on Friday,…
EX-TYCOON KHODORKOVSKY MARKS 10 YEARS IN PRISON
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV FILE – In this file photo taken on Thursday Dec. 30, 2010, former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, left, and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev talk behind a glass…
NOBEL LAUREATES CALL FOR END TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS
US actress Sharon Stone,left, receives the Nobel Peace laureates summit Peace Prize from the Dalai Lama in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. Stone was awarded in recognition of her…