PUSSY RIOT MEMBERS MAY RUN FOR MOSCOW ASSEMBLY
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, and Maria Alekhina of Pussy Riot, participate in a press conference of the Cinema For Peace foundation in Berlin , Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)…
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EU MINISTERS SEEK WAYS TO DEF– USE UKRAINE CRISIS
By JUERGEN BAETZ British Foreign Minister William Hague, right, speaks with from Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, left, and Czech Republic’s Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek during a meeting of EU…
TOKYO PLEDGES TO BRING WOMEN INTO 2020 COMMITTEE
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers his speech during a national rally to demand the return of Russian-held four islands floating off the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, in Tokyo,…
KIEV WARNS OF TERRORISM THREAT AMID PROTESTS
Demonstrators angered by more than two months of anti-government protests in Kiev gather on Khreschatyk street in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. Thousands of people angered by months of…
SYRIA BEGINS EVACUATING CIVILIANS TRAPPED IN HOMS
By BASSEM MROUE In this video image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens sit aboard a bus after they evacuated the besieged rebel-held neighborhood of of…
VIOLENT PROTESTS SPREAD THROUGHOUT BOSNIA
By AMEL EMRIC A Bosnian protester walks by a local government building during protests, in Bosnian town of Tuzla, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Bosnian protesters set ablaze the local…
HERO OR TRAITOR? POPE’S AIDE IN POLISH CONTROVERSY
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA FILE – In this May 4, 1996 file photo, Pope John Paul II, right, is helped by his personal secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, as he arrives in Como,…
KLITSCHKO WARNS UKRAINIAN TEMPERS ARE HEATING UP
Anti-government protesters warm themselves as they man a barricade in central Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Leaders of the anti-government protests that have gripped Ukraine’s capital for more than…