TOUGH JOB FOR TEAM DESTROYING SYRIA NERVE AGENTS
By KARIN LAUB FILE — In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on…
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THOUSANDS PROTEST ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijani opposition candidate Camil Hasali holds a ballot paper as he speaks during a news conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Observers from the Organization for Security and…
SNOWDEN: MASS SURVEILLANCE MAKING US LESS SAFE
In this image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam…
4 US WHISTLEBLOWERS MEET SNOWDEN IN MOSCOW
Lon Snowden, left, speaks to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Edward Snowden’s father Lon Snowden told Russian television outside the Moscow airport Thursday morning that…
ALBANIA: HUNDREDS OF LOOTED ICONS RECOVERED
By LLAZAR SEMINI Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama views stolen art objects seized by police in the biggest operation of the kind Tirana, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Albanian police have…
EXIT POLLS: AZERBAIJAN’S PRESIDENT WINS 3RD TERM
By AIDA SULTANOVA Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev leaves a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its…
HUNGARIAN WINGSUIT FLYER DIES DURING CHINA JUMP
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 photo, Hungarian wingsuit flier Viktor Kovats jumps off a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie in south China’s Hunan province. Kovats…
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT WINS WAGES CASE VS SPACE AGENCY
FILE – In this Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 file photo Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov shortly after landing in a Soyuz space capsule near Arkalyk, in Kazakhstan. A Moscow regional court…