PRO-KREMLIN YOUTH HUNT DOWN ‘SPICE’ PUSHERS
By MANSUR MIROVALEV In this photo taken on Friday, March 15, 2013, members of a pro-Kremlin youth group douse with red paint two tied-up pushers of spice, a synthetic drug,…
Eastern Europe
LAWMAKERS ASK IF INTEL BLOCKED BEFORE BOSTON BOMBS
By KIMBERLY DOZIER Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks with reporters following a closed-door briefing by intelligence agencies on the Boston Marathon bombing, on Capitol Hill in Washington,…
OBAMA: BOSTON CAPTURE CLOSES OUT A ‘TOUGH WEEK’
By JIM KUHNHENN President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, April 19, 2013, regarding the Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)…
US READYING AID PACKAGE FOR SYRIAN REBELS
By MATTHEW LEE FILE – In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. The US is poised to…
BOSTON SUSPECTS’ CHECHEN FAMILY TRAVELED LONG ROAD
By LEILA SARALAYEVA Schoolchildren march in front of a school where Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was dubbed a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, studied, in a small Kyrgyz city Tokmok…
NY AUTHORITIES DEAL RUSSIAN MOB A LOSING HAND
By TOM HAYS Hillel Nahmad, left, exits Manhattan federal court with his attorney Benjamin Brafman, Friday, April 19, 2013, in New York. Nearly three dozen people were charged on Tuesday…
RUSSIAN BECOMES WORLD’S OLDEST SPACEWALKER AT 59
By MARCIA DUNN In this image made from video provided by NASA, Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, left, and Roman Romanenko perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to gather…
WARSAW MARKS 70 YEARS SINCE UPRISING IN GHETTO
By VANESSA GERA People listen to a short concert as Julian Rachlin, the first violinist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, plays a Bach sarabande in front of the monument to…