EUROPE RIGHTS COURT TO HEAR OF SECRET CIA PRISONS
Polish lawyer Joseph Margulies, right, one of the lawyers of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, checks his files as he arrives at the forth section of the European Court…
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BOLSHOI DANCER FOUND GUILTY IN ATTACK ON ITS CHIEF
By LAURA MILLS Pavel Dmitrichenko stands inside a barred enclosure at a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. A judge found Dmitrichenko, a Bolshoi dancer and two other…
UKRAINE: TENS OF THOUSANDS MARCH THROUGH KIEV
By MARIA DANILOVA Demonstrators gather during a rally in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. As many as 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center…
POLICE FORCEFULLY BREAK UP DEMONSTRATION IN KIEV
By YURAS KARMANAU Injured protesters look for medical help in ambulance after Ukrainian riot police broke up a rally demanding the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych, at the Independence Square…
THOUSANDS PROTEST UKRAINIAN LEADER SPIKING EU DEAL
By YURAS KARMANAU A demonstrator holds a torn portrait of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and shouts “Coward!” during a rally in support of Ukraine’s integration with the European Union in…
Latvian store search ends with death toll at 54
Policemen stand near a collapsed Maxima supermarket in Riga, Latvia, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. A massive third section of the roof at the supermarket where scores of people were killed…
UN tribunal’s president visits Bosnian mass grave
President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Theodor Meron addresses journalists during a visit to the mass grave Tomasica, near the Bosnian town of Prijedor, 260…
UN: Syrian government and opposition to meet
By JOHN HEILPRIN Russian deputy Foreign Ministers Mikhail Bogdanov, background 3rd left, and Gennady Gatilov, center, arrive for a meeting with UN Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and…